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This paper argues that poverty originates in the structural injustices of a social order which incapacitates the poor from participating in the growth generating sectors of the economy and leaves them captives in the so called informal sector, characterized by low productivity and low earning...
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This is a brief sketch of the Self Employed Women’s Association’s (SEWA) threedecade- long journey from the local to … global and informal to formal sector in search of finding work and income for now 720,000 women workers. Though SEWA remains …
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, demography and institutions). Thus, at all stages of development, forcing economic production to spread evenly across areas is … response should be comprehensively total: institutions that unite, infrastructure that connects, interventions that target …
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environment and weak institutional framework in particular in Poland. We use a purposive sample of 5 social cooperatives, and … report the data from several in-depth interviews with their representatives as well as observation from the cooperatives. We …
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The Spanish collective institutions for irrigation management have become a reiterated reference in the study of common … institutions to coordinate water management at the basin or sub-basin level. The aim of this institutional ambition, unsuccessful … the up-scaling processes in the development of nested institutions. …
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Institutions determine prospects for economic growth and development. This paper collapses potentially complex … interactions of different institutions into a simple condition on the primitives that determines whether a society supports spot … markets or not. In a dynamic model of an agrarian economy agents are heterogeneous in land holdings, skill, and food …
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alternative channels of transmission between slavery and inequality: a land inequality theory, a racial discrimination theory and …
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alternative channels of transmission between slavery and inequality: a land inequality theory, a racial discrimination theory and …
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alternative channels of transmission between slavery and inequality: a land inequality theory, a racial discrimination theory and …
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