violence to persist over time. The findings thus demonstrate that factors such as inequality, poverty, education and the labour …, poverty, inequality and the labour market are strong predictors of homicide rates in the seven Colombian cities. The results …This paper analyses some determinants of urban violence in seven major Colombian cities. The empirical research is …

Violence is a significant development constraint that generates economic problems, limits public and private … investments, and damages the country’s infrastructure. This paper offers an explanation of violence through an empirical analysis … of Colombian departments that takes into account categories of violence and variables of economic development and the …

looking forward to a much better future - in terms of both growth and human development - than was deemed possible at the time …

In very poor countries, inequality often means that a small part of the population maintains living standards far above … the rest. This is also true for educational inequality in Mozambique: only a small segment of the population has access to … good quality. This study investigates inequality in past attainment, in current school access, and learning or educational …

This paper studies the association between financial development, financial stability, and poverty for a sample of 109 … development, and only a few recent studies have looked at the effects of financial stability on poverty. However, none of the … existing studies has looked at the interaction effect of the two on poverty. Our contribution to this literature is manifold …

During the past 20 years, Haiti's development efforts have been stifled by natural disasters, poverty, and inequality …

Over the past twenty years, Mozambique has achieved remarkable progress in promoting macroeconomic growth and stability …. Nonetheless, poverty rates remain high and labour market activity is dominated by smallholder farming. We use recent household … movement of labour out of agriculture has contributed to aggregate growth. But, this trend is slowing and is leading to a …

been strong, yet poverty remains high. Underlying the shortage of good livelihoods and high social inequality is the lack …Africa has come a long way since the economic turmoil of the 1980s, the decade of "structural adjustment". Growth has …