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This paper combines data from a government programme providing broadband access to primary schools in Ireland with survey microdata on schools', teachers' and pupils use of the internet to examine the links between public subsidies, classroom use of the internet and educational performance....
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Low-income countries struggle to provide their populations with universal primary education, albeit lack of the required financial resources. Strategies are sought after to more efficiently use existing educational equipment in these countries. In particular, the role of families and their...
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-led engagement in non-agricultural activities would be inequality-decreasing through increasing the incomes of the poorer parts of … the population and would reduce poverty. Opportunity-led diversification, by contrast, would increase inequality and have … opportunity-led diversification. Yet, the poverty and inequality implications of the differently motivated diversification …
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This paper presents an analysis of bureaucratic corruption, income inequality and economic development. The analysis is … model predicts a positive relationship between corruption and inequality, and a negative relationship between corruption and …
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income inequality in the long run. Small scale Kuznets curves, driven by sectoral business cycles, may also be detected in …-growth steady state. Although the long-term trend is one of decreasing inequality, small-scale Kuznets curves may be detected even … underlying factors of inequality, and the evolution of a more comprehensive measure of inequality than the one normally used, are …
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(DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality … incomes from assets in the DHS, and is able to generate new information on poverty and inequality in Bolivia. …
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obtain measures for global inequality and poverty as well as global growth incidence curves. …
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I discuss how poverty decomposition methods relate to integral approximation, which ultimately is the foundation of every decomposition of the temporal change of a quantity into key drivers. This offers a common framework for the different decomposition methods used in the literature, clarifies...
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This paper analyses changes in income portfolios of rural households and its determinants for the case of Ghana in the 1990s. Our analysis shows that, contrary to common beliefs, rural Ghana has seen major economic transformation, as households increasingly diversify their livelihoods by both...
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This paper investigates the impact of land inequality on conflict intensity. A fundamental distinction with the … existing literature lies in the nature of inequality under consideration. We investigate how land inequality across landlords … intensity is non-monotonic in land inequality. In particular, the most severe conflicts occur for intermediate land inequality …
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