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Trade Liberalization and the Self-Employed in Mexico
Popli, Gurleen K. - In: World Development 38 (2010) 6, pp. 803-813
Summary This paper examines the trend in income inequality and poverty among the self-employed workers in Mexico during … 1984-2002, a period of rapid trade liberalization. In the decade following the liberalization, inequality and poverty among … the self-employed increased; as the economy stabilized inequality started to go down, but poverty kept increasing. To …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008499315
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Poverty and Proximate Barriers to Learning: Vision Deficiencies, Vision Correction and Educational Outcomes in Rural Northwest China
Hannum, Emily; Zhang, Yuping - In: World Development 40 (2012) 9, pp. 1921-1931
Uncorrected vision may present a significant barrier to educational mobility in poor communities in low and middle income countries. Focusing on the case of rural Northwest China, we analyze the Gansu Survey of Children and Families (2,000 children; 100 rural villages) and the Gansu Vision...
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Economic Inequality and HIV in Malawi
Durevall, Dick; Lindskog, Annika - In: World Development 40 (2012) 7, pp. 1435-1451
both the neighborhood and district levels, but no effect of individual poverty. We also find that the HIV …
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