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Poverty, social mobility, and the middle class : the case of South Africa

Schotte, Simone - 2018

The wave of upbeat stories on the developing world's emerging middle class has reinvigorated a debate on how social class in general and the middle class in particular ought to be defined and empirically measured. With the aim of adding clarity to this debate, this dissertation provides a...

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Essays on gender, migration, and development

Santos Silva, Manuel Pedro Duarte - 2018

This dissertation focuses on the relationship between gender equality and economic development, broadly defined. Since the seminal work of Ester Boserup (1970), gender equality is widely understood as being both an instrument for and a consequence of economic development. The first three...

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Essays on comparing poverty measures, gender differences in subjective well-being, food Insecurity and malnutrition in Pakistan

Mahmood, Tahir - 2018

Diese Dissertation enthält vier Essays über die Messung und Determinanten von Armut, Gender Gap, Ernährungsunsicherheit …This dissertation includes four essays on the measurement and determinants of poverty, gender gap, food insecurity and … compares objective income poverty to a subjective measure where household placed themselves on a ten-step income scale. It …

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