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Exploring economic support networks amidst racial inequality in Namibia
Oppel, Annalena - 2021
inequality as a social dynamic within the space of support and evaluate whether providing worseoff others corresponds to former … discriminatory practices under the apartheid regime. My results suggest that inequality has normalized a sense of support as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012545413
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Affirmative action around the world : insights from a new dataset
Gisselquist, Rachel M.; Schotte, Simone; Kim, Min J. - 2023
Affirmative action, or positive discrimination favouring the members of marginalized populations, is a key policy approach for addressing group-based inequalities along ethnic, religious, and racial lines (e.g. horizontal inequalities). It is adopted in dozens of countries around the world in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014250060
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Affirmative action around the world : insights from a new dataset (update)
Gisselquist, Rachel M.; Kim, Min J.; Schotte, Simone; … - 2024
Affirmative action, or positive discrimination favouring the members of marginalized populations, is a key policy approach to addressing group-based inequalities. It is adopted in dozens of countries around the world in the areas of, for instance, university enrolment, public employment, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014635280
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Inclusion amid ethnic inequality : insights from Brazil's social protection system
Sugiyama, Natasha Borges - 2022
consequences of group-based inequality. This paper argues that a class-based lens has dominated the social protection framework. In … poverty and wellbeing. This framing is reflective of Brazil's national narrative on race relations and the idea that class and …-poverty conditional cash transfer programme, Bolsa Família (2003-21), is emblematic of the country's universal and 'race-blind' approach …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013279956
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Occupational segregation by race in South Africa after apartheid
Gradín, Carlos - 2017
sustained or significant desegregation. Occupations remain highly segmented by race, with blacks disproportionally holding low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011628231
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Business rights and ethnic exclusion in sub-Saharan Africa : addressing group-based inequality through business rights reform
Taylor, Scott D. - 2016
The business rights pillar of the Legal Empowerment of the Poor agenda is not preoccupied with equality of outcome; it concentrates instead on equality of opportunity. This paper addresses the lacuna in the business rights literature by 'bringing outcomes back in'. Certainly, equal outcomes are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011573362
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Poverty and ethnicity among black South Africans
Gradín, Carlos - 2014
This paper investigates inequalities across the major black ethnic groups in South Africa, accounting for 80 per cent of the country's population. We demonstrate that there is an important ethnic gap in the poverty levels of the Xhosa and the Zulu with respect to the Sotho/Tswana. We also show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010404583
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Horizontal inequalities and affirmative action : an analysis of attitudes towards redistribution across groups in Africa
Langer, Arnim; Stewart, Frances; Schroyens, Maarten - 2016
action policies can provide promising opportunities for escaping this inequality trap. However, political support for these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011557654
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Does affirmative action address ethnic inequality? : a systematic review of the literature
Schotte, Simone; Gisselquist, Rachel M.; Leone, Tharcisio - 2023
Despite the good intentions behind affirmative action (AA) policies to mediate 'horizontal inequalities' between ethnic groups, the evidence on their effectiveness remains open to debate. In this study, we conduct a systematic review of the literature with global scope, to add new clarity on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013549831
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Promoting women's economic empowerment through productive employment and social protection
Otobe, Naoko - 2014
The paper attempts to examine the extent to which the ILO-supported projects have contributed to women's economic empowerment and well-being i.e., from a gender perspective. The paper provides the ILO's perspectives on gender dimensions of employment promotion (involving income generation and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010358804