We examine associations of mass media and information and communicationstechnologies (ICT) as knowledge-based infrastructures on some economicdevelopment outcomes. We .nd that several mass media and ICT penetration variablesare negatively associated with three development outcomes: corruption,...

[...]Our research on seven ‘weak marketcities’ in five European countriessupported by the Joseph RowntreeFoundation was completed and theresulting book, Phoenix Cities by AnnePower, Jörg Plöger and Astrid Winkler,will be published in March 2010.However, we were delighted that...

This report covers CASE’s activities duringthe calendar year 2007 (with financialand related information for the 2006-07academic year). This year marked thecompletion of the Centre’s ten years withcore funding from the Economic andSocial Research Council (ESRC). Havingcompleted that research...

This report summarises presentations and discussion at a workshop on ‘Persistent Poverty and Lifetime Inequality’ organisedby HM Treasury and chaired by John Hills, Director of the ESRC Resarch Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion at theLondon School of Economics. It took place on 17 and...

Using counterfactual microsimulations, Shapley decompositions of time change in inequalityand poverty indices make it possible to disentangle and quantify the relative effect of taxbenefitpolicy changes, compared to all other effects including shifts in the distribution ofmarket income. Using...

This paper estimates trends in absolute poverty in urban China from 1988 to 2002 using the Chinese Household Income Project (CHIP) surveys. Poverty incidence curves are plotted, showing that poverty has fallen markedly during the period regardless of the exact location of the poverty line...

To assess the impact of tax-benefit policy changes on income distribution over time, wesuggest a methodology based on counterfactual simulations. We start by decomposingchanges in inequality/poverty indices into three contributions: reforms of the tax-benefitstructure (rules, rates, etc.),...

Scholars interested in race inequality have been particularly attracted to network accounts of the stratifying effects of social networks in the labor market. A recurring theme in policy‐oriented research on poverty is that institutional connections can be engineered to create connections...

This paper sought to emphasize the importance of public sector management against the fight against corruption and poverty in attempts toward the achievement of sustainable development in Nigeria. Fighting corruption and reducing poverty is the best starting point for the diversification of the...

The high levels of corruption, unemployment and abysmal development reflect a situation of poor macroeconomic management in Nigeria. Sound macroeconomic policies and management contribute in many ways to high quality growth that has positive correlation with poverty reduction. Increased and more...