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Documenting Myanmar's Social Transformation : Insights from Six Rounds of Research on Livelihoods and Social Change in Rural Communities
Pursch, Samuel James - 2017
This paper presents the initial findings from six rounds of research conducted between 2012 and 2016 on livelihoods and social change in rural Myanmar, undertaken as part of the Qualitative Social and Economic Monitoring initiative. These data provide unique insights into the ways in which broad...
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Stationary Bandits, State Capacity, and the Malthusian Transition : The Lasting Impact of the Taiping Rebellion
Xu, Lixin Colin - 2018
The Taiping Rebellion (1851-1864) in China was the deadliest civil war in history. This paper provides evidence that this cataclysmic event significantly shaped the Malthusian transition and long-term development that followed, especially in areas where the experiences that stemmed from the...
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All that Glitters is Not Gold : Polarization Amid Poverty Reduction in Ghana
Clementi, Fabio - 2017
fast poverty reduction. A closer look at the distributional changes that occurred in the same period, however, suggests …
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The Creative Wealth of Nations : How the Performing Arts Can Advance Development and Human Progress
Kabanda, Patrick - 2017
Cultural activities are increasingly noted as drivers of meaningful development. But they have yet to gain a prominent place in the architecture of development strategy. The performing arts, discussed here, exhibit direct effects on social progress and economic growth through trade in music,...
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Gender, Ethnicity and Cumulative Disadvantage in Education : Evidence from Latin American and African Censuses
Taş, Emcet O. - 2017
This paper studies the impact of gender and ethnicity on educational outcomes using cross-country evidence from Bolivia, Mexico, Peru, Senegal, and Sierra Leone. It uses the Minnesota Population Center's Integrated Public Use Microdata Series-International database, which includes...
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Introducing Behavioral Change in Transportation into Energy/Economy/Environment Models
Schafer, Andreas - 2017
Transportation is vital to economic and social development, but at the same time generates undesired consequences on local, regional, and global scales. One of the largest challenges is the mitigation of energy-related carbon dioxide emissions, to which this sector already contributes...
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Wider Economic Benefits of Investments in Transport Corridors and the Role of Complementary Policies
Melecky, Martin - 2018
, the poverty rate, or the incidence of regular wage employment. The results suggest that the highways caused an increase in …
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Distribution-Sensitive Multidimensional Poverty Measures
Datt, Gaurav - 2018
This paper presents axiomatic arguments to make the case for distribution-sensitive multidimensional poverty measures … unambiguously poverty-increasing and they are also invariant to changes in the distribution of a given set of deprivations amongst … axiomatic justification for distribution-sensitive multidimensional poverty measures. Given the nonlinear structure of these …
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The Role of Social Ties in Factor Allocation
Beck, Ulrik - 2018
This paper investigates whether social structure helps or hinders factor allocation using unusually rich data from The Gambia. Evidence indicates that land available for cultivation is allocated unequally across households; and that factor transfers are more common between neighbors, co-ethnics,...
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Finding the Poor vs. Measuring Their Poverty : Exploring the Drivers of Targeting Effectiveness in Indonesia
Bah, Adama - 2018
Centralized targeting registries are increasingly used to allocate social assistance benefits in developing countries. There are two key design issues that matter for targeting accuracy: (i) which households to survey for inclusion in the registry and (ii) how to rank surveyed households. The...
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