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Rural Poverty, Public Policy and Social Change: Some Findings From Surveys of Six Villages.

Gazdar, H. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 1992

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005625500

Perlman, Janice E. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2007

The focus of this paper is the effect of contemporary globalization on poverty and inequality in cities of the ?global south?. Specifically it addresses the impact of globalization on marginalized communities?slums, squatter settlements and shantytowns?collectively called ?informal settlements?....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005059801

Growth and Equity in Finland

Jantti, Markus; Saari, Juho; Vartiainen, Juhana - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2006

This paper reviews Finnish economic history during the 'long' twentieth century with a special emphasis on policies for equity and growth. We argue that Finland developed from a poor, vulnerable, and conflict-prone country to a modern economy in part through policies geared at both growth and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005059912

Inequality in Income and Access to Education: A Cross-Country Analysis.

Chicchi, D. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 1999

works through the access to education. After reviewing this debate, a formal model shows how the imperfection of financial … distribution; and a positive dependence on public resources invested in education and/or on skill premium in the labour market … seem mainly relevant in limiting the access to secondary education. However, when considering gender differences, there is …

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User Fees, Expenditure Restructuring and Voucher Systems in Education.

Appleton, S - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 1997

The analysis of the optimal funding of education is complicated by the numerous and serious market failures which are … likely to characterize a free market for education. Prominent amongst these are the likely external benefits of education …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005625487

Does Educational Achievement Help to Explain Income Inequality?.

Checchi, D. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2000

In this paper we propose to measure the inequality of educational achievements by constructing a Gini index on educational attainments. We then use the proposed measure to analyse the relationship between inequality in incomes and educational achievements.

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005625521

Income Distribution and Tax, and Government Social Spending Policies in Developing Countries.

Chu, K.-y.; Davoodi, H.; Gupta, S. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2000

This paper reviews income distribution in developing countries in recent decades. On average, before-tax income distribution is less unequal in developing countries than it is in industrial countries. However, unlike industrial countries, developing countries in general have not been able to use...

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Education, Financial Institutions, Inflation and Growth

Becchetti, Leonardo; Hasan, Iftekhar; Mavrotas, George - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2005

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Gender and Education as Determinants of Household Poverty in Nigeria

Okojie, Christiana E.E. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2002

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A Wider Approach to Aid Effectiveness: Correlated Impacts on Health, Wealth, Fertility and Education

Fielding, David; McGillivray, Mark; Torres, Sebastian - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2006

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