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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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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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offers the opportunity to analyze the distributional changes in the past two decades, since four comparable household surveys … how the distributional changes hollowed out the middle of the Ghanaian household consumption distribution and increased …. When looking at the drivers of polarization, household characteristics, educational attainment, and access to basic …
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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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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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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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The effects of urban transport policies on household welfare are a broadly understudied topic in developing countries …. The paper uses pooled cross-sectional household survey data, analyzed by block, over 2008-15 and a difference …
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detailed individual-level information from household surveys of several countries in the region. The paper widens an ongoing …
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paper finds that through bulk purchasing the average household could spend 8.7 percent less without reducing purchasing …
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Intra-household inequalities have long been a source of concern for policy design, but there is very little evidence … overall poverty rate, but individual poverty statuses are affected. Intra-household consumption inequalities accounts for 14 … percent of inequality in Senegal. The authors uncover the fact that household structure and organization are key correlates of …
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