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Nonfarm Activity and Rural Income Inequality : A Case Study of Two Provinces in China
Zhu, Nong - 2006
education are critical to build up the capacity of households (in particular, poor households) to participate in nonfarm …
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Accounting for Mexican Income Inequality During the 1990s
De Hoyos Navarro, Rafael E. - 2016
source rarely scrutinized in the inequality literature. He shows that education (skills) endowments are unevenly distributed … inequality. Asymmetries in the allocation of education explain around 20 percent of overall household income disparities in … Mexico during the 1990s. Moreover, the proportion of inequality attributable to education endowments increases during stable …
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Poverty Reduction and Shared Prosperity in Tajikistan : A Diagnostic
Azevedo, João Pedro - 2017
Tajikistan was one of the fastest growing countries in the Europe and Central Asia region during the last decade. The economic growth was widely shared by the population and as a result poverty (measured by the national poverty line) declined from 73 percent in 2003 to 47 percent in 2009...
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Fifteen Years of Inequality in Latin America : How Have Labor Markets Helped?
Azevedo, Joao Pedro - 2017
labor income). The results show that falling returns to skills for both education and experience is, on average, driving the …
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Economic Inequality in the Arab Region
Hassine, Nadia Belhaj - 2017
The paper uses harmonized household survey micro-data to assess the levels and determinants of economic inequality in 12 Arab countries. It focuses on the sources of rural-urban, as well as metropolitan-nonmetropolitan, inequalities and applies the unconditional quantile regression decomposition...
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Safety Nets and Natural Disaster Mitigation : Evidence from Cyclone Phailin in Odisha
Christian, Paul - 2018
India and the staggered rollout of a rural livelihoods intervention. Comparisons from household surveys across communities …
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Jati Inequality in Rural Bihar
Joshi, Shareen - 2018
Caste is a persistent driver of inequality in India, and it is generally analyzed with government-defined broad …
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Non-Farm Diversification, Poverty, Economic Mobility and Income Inequality : a Case Study in Village India
Lanjouw, Peter F. (contributor); Murgai, Rinku (contributor) - 2017
This paper assembles data at the all-India level and for the village of Palanpur, Uttar Pradesh, to document the … mobility among the poorest segments of rural society. Efforts by the government of India to accelerate the process of … transformation currently underway in rural India …
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Distribution-Sensitive Multidimensional Poverty Measures
Datt, Gaurav - 2018
methods to assess dimensional contributions to poverty. An empirical illustration for India highlights distinctive features of …
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Does Involvement of Local Ngos Enhance Public Service Delivery? Cautionary Evidence from a Malaria-Prevention Evaluation in India
Das, Ashis - 2017
Using data from an experimental supportive intervention to India's malaria control program, this paper studies the …
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