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This study focuses on growth, poverty and inequality in Rwanda. We take a broad perspective, in two respects. First, we …. Second, we look beyond static measures of material welfare and study economic and social mobility as well as indicators of …
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suggest something quite different: that over the course of a "mobility transition", emigration generally rises with economic … development until countries reach upper-middle income, and only thereafter falls. This note quantifies the shape of the mobility … explain the mobility transition and numerous tests of its existence and characteristics in both macro- and micro-level data …
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In developing and transition economies as much as half the labor force works in the informal sector (or "shadow economy"). Informal firms congest infrastructure and other public services but do not contribute the taxes needed to finance them. Informal workers are unprotected against such...
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support a large aging dependent population, including better education, and greater mobility providing access to employment …
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