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A note on poverty in Kosovo
Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Gang, Ira N.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2005
during most of the 1990s. We examine the incidence and depth of poverty and some of its correlates in post-conflict Kosovo …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266358
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Ethnic conflict and economic disparity: Serbians and Albanians in Kosovo
Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Gang, Ira N.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2006
Using the Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) household survey from post-conflict Kosovo we investigate the comparative economic well-being of Serbs and Albanians. An Oaxaca decomposition shows Serb households are both better endowed with income generating characteristics, such as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277296
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Poverty in rural India: ethnicity and caste
Gang, Ira N.; Sen, Kunal; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2006
This paper analyzes the determinants of rural poverty in India, contrasting the situation of scheduled caste (SC) and … scheduled tribe (ST) households with the non-scheduled population. The incidence of poverty in SC and ST households is much … poverty line and an Oaxaca-type decomposition analysis, we study how these differences in the incidence of poverty arise. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277298