-discrimination measures in education. An analysis of trends in inequalities in human development is used to identify three countries that have … education has been taken up politically. …

-discrimination measures in education. An analysis of trends in inequalities in human development is used to identify three countries that have … education has been taken up politically. …

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 … higher levels of education (there are 30 times as many schools offering grade 1 than grade 12) and receives education of a …

explains a large part of the discrepancy in poverty levels, with education and labor variables of household members explaining … access to high-quality education and the persistence of discrimination against colored workers in the labor market. …

Westra and Alan Zuege (eds) Phases of Capitalist Development: Booms, Crises, and Globalization, pp195-215. London: McMillan …

I review the literature on the effects of inequality on growth and development in the developing world. Two stylized … facts emerge from empirical studies: inequality is more likely to harm growth in countries at low levels of income (below … about $3200 per capita in 2000 dollars); and it is at high levels of inequality (at or above a Gini coefficient of .45) that …

This paper analyzes the equity of opportunity in basic education and infrastructure services in seven developing … socioeconomic and demographic circumstances to inequality of opportunity in accessing basic services. The new and major contribution … of the paper, however, is the development of a methodology that quantifies the relative contribution of each circumstance …

Income inequality in Colombia has declined since the early 2000s but remains very high by international standards … pervasive informal sector and a wide wage dispersion reflecting a large education premium for those with higher education …. Reducing income inequality is a key government objective and this requires improving the performance of the labour market …