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Efficiency and equity in contract farming : evidence from a case study of dairying in India
Birthal, Pratap S.; Joshi, Pramod Kumar - In: Quarterly journal of international agriculture 48 (2009) 4, pp. 363-378
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Acceptable inequalities : an essay on the distribution of income
Bowen, Ian - 1970
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Investigating the relevance of mobile technology adoption on inclusive growth in West Africa
Ejemeyovwi, Jeremiah O.; Osabuohien, Evans - 2018
This paper empirically investigates the role of mobile technology adoption on inclusive growth in 15 West African countries with a view to ascertaining if the positive role of mobile technology adoption on human development as established in other regions holds in West Africa. It used data from...
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Preferences for inequality: East vs. West
Suhrcke, Marc - 2001
Do preferences for income inequality differ systematically between the post-socialist countries of Central and Eastern … address this question. In particular, we examine whether attitudes to inequality differ between East and West even after the … inequality and other determinants of attitudes are taken into account. These results do not seem to be driven by a recent change …
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Equivalence scales reconsidered: an empirical investigation
Bönke, Timm; Schröder, Carsten - 2007
, a reliable assessment of inequality in living standards, therefore, necessitates the conversion of the original … conversion strategy, and explain our results by means of an inequality decomposition by population subgroups. …
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Decreasing wage mobility in Germany
Gernandt, Johannes - 2009
distribution. Individual wage mobility decreased between 1984/1987 and 2004/2007, while inequality increased steadily from the mid …
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Online but still divided: Inequality in private internet use in Germany
Coneus, Katja; Schleife, Katrin - 2010
In this analysis, we compare the determinants of the first-level and the second-level digital divide for private internet use in Germany. Our work offers three important innovations. First, we use the exact weekly duration of internet use to explain inequalities in internet intensity, explicitly...
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Labor market and income effects of a legal minimum wage in Germany
Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - 2010
In view of rising wage and income inequality, the introduction of a legal minimum wage has recently become an important … reducing income inequality, even if it led to a substantial increase in hourly wages at the bottom of the wage distribution …
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Coordinating to protect the global climate: Experimental evidence on the role of inequality and commitment
Tavoni, Alessandro; Dannenberg, Astrid; Löschel, Andreas - 2010
Free riding and coordination difficulties are held to be the primary causes of cooperation breakdown among nonrelatives. These thwarting effects are particularly severe in the absence of effective monitoring institutions capable of sanctioning deviant behavior. Unfortunately, solutions to global...
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Are Maternal and Child Care Programs Reaching the Poorest Regions in the Philippines?
Lavado, Rouselle F.; Lagrada, Leizel P. - 2008
to achieve the MDG targets for maternal and child health. This study shows inequality in maternal and child health …
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