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The April 21, 2005 issue of the LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS carried a lead article titled ‘Blood for Oil?’ The paper is attributed to a group of writers and activists – Iain Boal, T.J. Clark, Joseph Matthews and Michael Watts – who identify themselves by the collective name ‘Retort.’ In...
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In the factors that affect income and poverty outcomes, there are some features unique to India. Caste, ethnicity …, religion and even regional origins all influence income outcomes. Therefore while examining individual poverty, the influence …
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Ethnicity and religious confession are concepts around which discussion and controversy arise, generating emotions and …
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Our initiative first aims at introducing the topics on ethnicity, religion and intercultural dialogue in the Curricula …
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The paper shows how democratic elections in a bi-communal society with entrenched ethnic voting results in an elected oligarchy in which elites of one ethnic group control the allocation of scarce economic resources. Using a simple strategic game, the paper shows that the control of resources...
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tendency towards polarization of households with regard to saving rates. Comparing the results for 2007-2010 with the authors …
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, the polarization (P) index, and the total relative deprivation (TRD) index. The paper proposes a tentative guide to …
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The aim of this paper is to analyze the processes of polarization and agglomeration, to explain the mechanisms and … cumulative phenomena, but with different perspectives, in other words, the polarization with a view of economic development and …
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results in output, consumption and welfare being inefficiently low. The larger is the degree of polarization, the greater is … the inefficiency. Political stability mitigates the effects of polarization by making the incumbent internalize the …
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This paper revisits one of the bipolarization indices of the large class of Duclos-Estebane-Ray polarization measures …. The relationship between polarization, inequality and poverty is analyzed via the index. First, polarization measure for … headcount ratio, the income gap ratio and the overabundance gap ratio. In particular, it is shown that polarization is high when …
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