Martin Ravallion ("Why Don't We See Poverty Convergence?" American Economic Review, 102(1): 504-23; 2012) presents … evidence against the existence of poverty convergence in aggregate data despite the conditional convergence of per capita … income levels and the close linkage between growth and poverty reduction in standard neoclassic growth theory and associated …

of globalization on human development. Given that the concept of globalization reflects a multitude of economic and … the channels through which less researched facets of globalization affect human lives. Specifically, the first essay … scrutinizes the role of informational globalization, characterized by the exchange of information. It focuses on the s... …

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 …

High unemployment in many OECD countries is often attributed, at least in part, to the generosity and long duration of … unemployment compensation. It is therefore instructive to examine a country where high unemployment exists despite the near … complete absence of an unemployment insurance system. In South Africa unemployment stood at 23% in 1997 and the unemployed have …

High unemployment in many OECD countries is often attributed, at least in part, to the generosity and long duration of … unemployment compensation. It is therefore instructive to examine a country where high unemployment exists despite the near … complete absence of an unemployment insurance system. In South Africa unemployment stood at 23% in 1997 and the unemployed have …

In South Africa unemployment stood at 23% in 1997 and the unemployed have no unemployment insurance nor informal sector … unemployment compensation. Analysing a household survey from 1995, we find that the household formation response of the unemployed … is the critical way in which they assure access to resources. In particular, unemployment delays the setting up of an …

High unemployment in many OECD countries is often attributed, at least in part, to the generosity and long duration of … unemployment compensation. It is therefore instructive to examine a country where high unemployment exists despite the near … complete absence of an unemployment insurance system. In South Africa unemployment stood at 23% in 1997 and the unemployed have …

While in many African countries open unemployment is largely confined to urban areas and thus overall rates are quite … low, in South Africa open unemployment rates hover around 30%, with rural unemployment rates being even higher than that …. This is despite the near complete absence of an unemployment insurance system and little labour market regulation that …