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Impact of education on inequality across the wage distribution profile in Cameroon : 2005 - 10

Baye, Francis Menjo - 2015

This paper evaluates the impact of education on measured inequality across the wage distribution using pooled records from the 2005 and 2010 Cameroon labour force surveys, wage equations and standard inequality measures. Returns to education increased monotonically. Yet incremental returns were...

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Climate justice for persons with disability : few harmed much, fewer still harmed too much

Tampubolon, Gindo - 2023

Building on Rawls' theory of justice and Sen's theory of capabilities, I present an outline of social justice under climate shocks, illustrating it with the experiences of persons with disability. Social justice holds when inequality is responded to by rules that afford more primary goods, such...

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Capitalism and African business cultures

Taylor, Scott D. - 2014

Scholars and practitioners once commonly linked 'African culture' to a distinctive 'African capitalism', at odds with … genuine capitalism and the demands of modern business. Yet contemporary African business cultures reveal that a capitalist … African big business reveals that business and profit are culturally acceptable. Existing theories of African capitalism are …

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Social and political capital in rural Viet Nam

Markussen, Thomas - 2015

This paper exploits five waves of the Vietnam Access to Resources Household Survey (VARHS) to investigate issues of social and political capital in rural Viet Nam. I analyse membership of the Communist Party, 'mass organizations' (Farmers' Union, Women's Union, etc.) and other voluntary...

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Varieties of capitalists? : the middle class, private sector and economic outcomes in Africa

Handley, Antoinette - 2014

Political scientists have generally seen two key features of African political economies - a relatively small or absent middle class, and a middle class that is unusually embedded in the state - as key explanations of the troubled political and economic trajectories of many African societies....

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Global capitalism theory and the emergence of transnational elites

Robinson, William I. - 2010

it in terms of global market integration. -- Elites ; development ; globalization ; transnational ; capitalism ; crisis …

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Poverty, vulnerability, and reference dependent utility

Günther, Isabel; Maier, Johannes - 2013

In this paper we argue that the recent evidence on individuals' decision making is of high relevance for the measurement of poverty when switching from a static and certain to a dynamic and uncertain framework. The numerous proposed measures of multi-period poverty and vulnerability have until...

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Targeting social transfer programmes : comparing design and implementation errors across alternative mechanisms

Sabates-Wheeler, Rachel; Hurrell, Alex; Devereux, Stephen - 2014

Identifying the poorest for selection into social transfer programmes is a major challenge facing programme implementers. An innovative cash transfer programme in northern Kenya trialled three targeting mechanisms to learn lessons about which approach is most effective at minimizing inclusion...

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Economic inequality and subjective well-being across the world

Clark, Andrew E.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita - 2018

We here use repeated cross-section data from the Afrobarometer, Asianbarometer Latinobarometer, and Eurobarometer to analyse the variables that are correlated with both current and future evaluations of standards of living. These are related not only to an individual's own economic resources but...

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Social protection floor gaps and pandemic relief measures: a case for universalism? : exploring scalability through targeted versus universalist approaches

Oppel, Annalena - 2022

With the expansion of social protection measures due to the COVID-19 pandemic, considerations both old and new have surfaced regarding targeted versus universalist approaches. This study focuses on how social protection coverage before the pandemic influences the extent of targeted versus...

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