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Elite capture in urban development : evidence from Indonesia

Darmawan, Rivayani; Klasen, Stephan - 2013

of elite capture, particularly in more unequal communities. The risk is higher when the gap between the poor and the non … their preferences. This paper contributes to the limited empirical literature on the existence of elite capture in social … the existence of elite capture under unequal communities. We further find that only when decision makers share similar …

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New measures of gender inequality : the Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI)and its subindices

Branisa Caballero, Boris Sergio; Klasen, Stephan; … - 2009 - This version: July 23, 2009

In this paper we construct the Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) and its five subindices Family code, Civil liberties, Physical integrity, Son Preference and Ownership rights using variables of the OECD Gender, Institutions and Development database. Instead of measuring gender...

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The construction of the social institutions and gender index (SIGI)

Branisa Caballero, Boris Sergio; Klasen, Stephan; … - 2009

In this paper we construct the Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) using variables of the OECD Gender, Institutions and Development database. Instead of measuring gender inequalities in education, health, economic or political participation, the SIGI allows a new perspective on gender...

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Growth and well-being : introducing distribution-weighted growth rates to reevaluate US post-war economic performance

Klasen, Stephan - In: The review of income and wealth : journal of the … 40 (1994) 3, pp. 251-272

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How serious is the neglect of intra-household inequality in multi-dimensional poverty indices?

Klasen, Stephan; Lahoti, Rahul - 2016

Income-based as well as most existing multidimensional poverty indices (MPI) assume equal distribution within the household and thus are likely to lead to yield a biased assessment of individual poverty, and poverty by age or gender. In this paper we first show that the direction of the bias...

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What to do about rising inequality in developing countries?

Klasen, Stephan - 2016

In recent years, debates about inequality have reached a renewed intensity in international policy debates. This is partly the result of much better data on the extent of inequality, where the work by Piketty on the top 1% has revealed much larger (and rising) inequality than previously known...

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Re-estimating the relationship between inequality and growth

Scholl, Nathalie; Klasen, Stephan - 2016

In this paper, we revisit the inequality-growth relationship using an enhanced panel data set with improved inequality data and special attention to the role of transition countries. We base our analysis on the specification of Forbes (2000), but also address the functional form concerns raised...

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Looking at pro-poor growth from an agricultural perspective

Klasen, Stephan; Reimers, Malte - 2016

Pro-poor growth has been identified as one of the most promising pathways to accelerate poverty reduction in developing countries. The diagnostic pro-poor growth toolbox has so far focused on the income dimension as well as key non-income achievements in education and health. This article...

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Gender and multidimensional poverty in Nicaragua : an individual based approach

Espinoza-Delgado, José; Klasen, Stephan - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 110 (2018), pp. 466-491

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Labor savings in agriculture and inequality at different spatial scales : the expansion of oil palm in Indonesia

Kubitza, Christoph; Dib, Jonida Bou; Kopp, Thomas; … - 2019

Abstract: Labor saving innovations are essential to increase agricultural productivity, but they might also increase inequality through displacing labor. Empirical evidence on such labor displacements is limited. This study uses representative data at local and national scales to analyze labor...

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