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Socio-economic development in South Asia : the past 50 years
Osmani, Siddiqur Rahman - 2018
The story of South Asia is a topsy-turvy one. Soon after independence from British rule, the region seemed to have a much better prospect than many other parts of the Third World; the prospects soon dimmed, however, as South Asia crawled while East and Southeast Asia galloped away. But a large...
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Growth and inequality in the distribution of India's consumption expenditure 1983 to 2009-10
Subramanian, Sreenivasan; Jayaraj, Dhairiyarayar - 2015
India over the last quarter-century, from 1983 to 2009-10, employing data available in the quinquennial 'thick' surveys of … literature available on the subject in India. …
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The dynamics of spatial and local inequalities in India
Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop; Garcés Urzainqui, David - 2018
procedure to calculate inequality between and within smaller spatial units in the context of India, taking advantage of census … inequality in urban India is mostly due to rising inequality within urban blocks. Neither rural inequality nor its local and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011962552
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Sector, globalization and urban economic growth : evidence from Bangalore (India)
Narayana, M. R. - 2010
India, as they are related to ICT sector. Overall analyses offer new insights and evidences for ICT sector as a major … is remarkable compared to all-India level and OECD averages. These results offer empirical justification for continuing …
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The distributional impact of structural transformation in rural India : model-based simulation and case-study evidence
Elbers, Chris; Lanjouw, Peter - 2019
entitled How Lives Change: Palanpur, India and Development Economics, and point to two distinct, and staggered, drivers of … broadly in rural India. In this paper, we construct a simple model of a village economy that captures several of the salient … outcomes observed in the village. We suggest that to the extent that there exist other villages in rural India with such …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011997574
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Inequality trends and dynamics in India : the bird's-eye and the granular perspectives
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Lanjouw, Peter - 2018
India today is achieving per capita growth rates that are historically unprecedented. Poverty reduction has also … project that examines inequality trends and dynamics at the all-India level over three decades up to 2011/12 and contrasts …
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Populist strategies in African democracies
Resnick, Danielle - 2010
Drawing on insights from Latin America, this paper examines the factors that contributed to the use of populist strategies by political parties during recent presidential elections in Kenya, South Africa, and Zambia. Specifically, the paper argues that the nature of party competition in Africa,...
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Structural change and the National Initiative for Human Development in Morocco : subnational insights
Akim, Al-mouksit; Sahel, Wissal - 2023
This paper aims to revisit the pace and patterns of structural change in Morocco with a renewed perspective focusing on subnational trends to document the macro patterns. In that perspective, we first build a within-country sectoral longitudinal dataset covering employment and value added (VA)...
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Social spending and aggregate welfare in developing and transition economies
Gebregziabher, Fiseha; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel - 2014
Notwithstanding the unprecedented attention devoted to reducing poverty and fostering human development via scaling up social sector spending, there is surprisingly little rigorous empirical work on the question of whether social spending is effective in achieving these goals. This paper...
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Inequality and human development : the role of different parts of the income distribution
Castells-Quintana, David; Gradín, Carlos; Royuela, Vicente - 2022
In this paper we reassess the relationship between inequality and human development, focusing on the differential effect associated with the concentration of national income at different parts of the income distribution. To do so, we rely on a large global panel of countries over the last...
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