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This paper examines the relationship between openness and within-country regional inequality across 28 countries over … positive and significant association with regional inequality. In particular, states with higher inter-regional differences in … experienced the greatest rise in territorial inequality when exposed to greater trade flows. This means that changes in trade …
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income and lights-based measures of spatial income inequality in South Africa and shows that night-lights are a decent proxy … for spatial income inequality. Further analysis of the patterns of lights-based spatial income inequality across 48 … analysis also reveals that temperature and precipitation changes significantly increased spatial inequality in the long-run and …
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statistically significant and robust to changes in the time interval, inequality measures, and data sources. In-depth country … studies for Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico suggest two main phenomena underlie this trend: a fall in the premium to skilled …
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The adoption of the shared prosperity goal by the World Bank in 2013 and Sustainable Development Goal 10, on inequality …
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This paper examines how the dismantling of coercive institutions associated with the end of apartheid in South Africa in 1994 affected the distribution of rents from natural resource exports. It identifies the interplay between coercive institutions and natural resource rents as an important...
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This paper examines the performance of globally engaged firms in Argentina in the past decade. Using highly …
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implemented in 70 state schools in Buenos Aires, Argentina. A control group receiving standard teacher training was compared with …
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data from 2005-15 for Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico, this paper explores the effect of a negative household income shock on … likelihood that students in upper secondary and tertiary school exit school in Argentina and Brazil, but not in Mexico. For the …
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liberalization gains that arise when examining tariffs alone. This paper examines the experiences of Argentina and Brazil during the …
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experiment in the Province of La Rioja Argentina, that randomly assigned 105 public primary schools to: (a) a "diagnostic …
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