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Urban change and rural continuity in gender ideologies and practices : theorizing from Zambia
Evans, Alice - 2017
Across the world, people in urban rather than rural areas are more likely to support gender equality. To explain this global trend, this paper engages with geographically diverse literature and comparative rural-urban ethnographic research from Zambia. It argues that people living in...
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Educational assistance and education quality in Indonesia : the role of decentralization
Sari, Virgi - 2018
We examine the evolution of educational assistance in Indonesia, following two decades of government decentralization …, and its effect on education quality. Using Indonesia Family Life Survey data, we exploit as exogenous rule the variation … in the implementation of government decentralization to compute difference-in-difference estimators. Indicative evidence …
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Fiscal decentralization and urbanization in Indonesia
Comola, Margherita; Mello, Luiz R. de - 2010
Indonesia went through a process of fiscal decentralization in 2001 involving the devolution of several policymaking … dataset of local governments for 1996 and 2004-05 to estimate the effect of the decentralization of minimum-wage setting in …), the urban population would have risen by an additional 0.4 per cent from its initial level. -- Indonesia ; minimum wage …
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Local transformation in rural Vietnam : a commune level analysis
Beck, Ulrik - 2015
This study documents the local transformation of rural Vietnamese communes in 12 different provinces from 2006 to 2014. Three key areas are considered, namely occupational and agricultural choice; provision of public goods and infrastructure as well as land markets. While many areas showed great...
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New light on China's rural elites
Gustafsson, Björn; Ding, Sai - 2010
This paper analyses political elites, economic elites, hybrid elite households and non-elite households in rural China using household data for 1995 and 2002. We seek to understand the determinants of belonging to each of the three elite categories. We find that education and military experience...
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Transforming rural economies through tertiary education : evidence from India
Castelló-Climent, Amparo; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop; Ravinder - 2023
This paper analyses the role of tertiary education on rural development. Using census data on villages in India for 2011, we find that skilled workers have had an important impact on rural prosperity. A 1 percentage point rise in the share of the village population with tertiary education raises...
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Can cities or towns drive African development? : economy-wide analysis for Ethiopia and Uganda
Dorosh, Paul; Thurlow, James - 2012
Rapid urbanization is an important characteristic of African development and yet the structural transformation debate focuses on agriculture's relative merits without also considering the benefits from urban agglomeration. As a result, African governments are often provided conflicting...
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Indices of social development and their application to Africa
Haan, Arjan de; Foa, Roberto - 2014
This paper, using a new set of social development indices, explores the measurement of social development across Africa, and how this relates to broader development patterns and measurement. Development practitioners worldwide increasingly recognize the importance of informal institutions, such...
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The United Arab Emirates : some lessons in economic development
Nyarko, Yaw - 2010
Oil was discovered in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) just 50 years ago. During that time, UAE has been able to transform itself into a rapidly modernizing country, which is fast becoming a major economic hub and a key player on the international economic landscape. This paper discusses a number...
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Structural transformation and inclusive growth : Kuznets' "developer's dilemma" in Indonesia
Kim, Kyunghoon; Mungsunti, Arriya; Sumner, Andrew; … - 2020
the relationship between manufacturing value added or employment shares and trends in income inequality. In Indonesia … have been mixed. Indonesia's structural transformation pattern has shifted, from 'upgrading industrialization' before the …
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