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The economic context of realizing socioeconomic rights in South Africa
Burger, Philippe - 2023
The South African constitution is considered progressive and transformative in intention due to its inclusion of socioeconomic rights, such as the right to education, land, food, and healthcare. However, some of these rights are qualified by the availability of resources to the state, which...
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The legacy of Mexico's Drug War on youth political attitudes
García-Ponce, Omar; Laterzo, Isabel - 2023
. These results have significant implications for the consolidation of Mexico's young democracy. Understanding the long …
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A human rights-consistent approach to multidimensional welfare measurement applied to sub-Saharan Africa
Arndt, Channing; Mahrt, Kristi; Hussain, M. Azhar; … - 2017
The rights-based approach to development targets progress towards the realization of 30 articles set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Progress is frequently measured using the multidimensional poverty index. While elegant and useful, the multidimensional poverty index is in...
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Socioeconomic inequality in Viet Nam
Cuong Viet Nguyen; Tarp, Finn - 2024
This study provides an introduction to major discussions and core findings on inequalities in Viet Nam, drawing on a review of recent research, consideration of how inequality is discussed in legal documents, and an analysis of inequality using household survey data from Viet Nam. Inequality is...
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Democracy clusters and patterns of inequality : a k-means approach
Puzon, Klarizze Anne Martin - 2023
information from five Varieties of Democracy indices. K-means country clusters are similar but not entirely identical to both k …-medians clusters and arbitrary groups formed using only one measure, namely the liberal democracy index. Simple correlations with … high levels of democracy are characterized by lower relative inequality. They also have the lowest ratio of the income …
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Snakes and ladders and loaded dice : poverty dynamics and inequality in South Africa, 2008-2017
Zizzamia, Rocco; Schotte, Simone; Leibbrandt, Murray V. - 2019
Longitudinal surveys can give insight into economic mobility, which allows us to understand how markers of (dis)advantage are consequential in determining material conditions in the present, and how these markers structure economic opportunity over time. In this paper we show that this dynamic...
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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...
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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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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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Transitional justice and aid
Hellsten, Sirkku - 2012
) authoritarian societies in order to strengthen their democracy. Special attention is paid to gender justice. Illustrations are drawn …
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