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Is inequality underestimated in Mozambique?: Accounting for underreported consumptionHousehold budget surveys in sub-Saharan Africa are designed to facilitate poverty measurement and may fail to fully capture consumption in wealthy households. As a result, inequality is likely underestimated...
Consumption underreporting Household surveys InequalityBlog
Taking steps to overcome inequality in South Africa
Engagement is needed at all levels to address ongoing inequality faced in South Africa. This was the primary aim of a recent policy seminar in Pretoria, organized through the framework of the Mandela Initiative and partners, including UNU-WIDER...
Inequality development policy Structural transformationWorking Paper
Loyalty, trust, and glass ceiling: The gender effect on microcredit renewalWhereas most research into microfinance tends to focus on the impact of access to such services, very little pays attention to what happens over time once a person becomes a client...
Gender Microfinance InequalityWorking Paper
Human capital, labour market outcomes, and horizontal inequality in GuatemalaWith the second largest indigenous population by percentage in Latin America, Guatemala is an important case for understanding horizontal inequality and indigenous politics...
Inequality Ethnicity SchoolingWorking Paper
Anti-discrimination measures in education: A comparative policy analysisEfforts to tackle discrimination in access to basic services have shown mixed results in different country settings...
Inequality Anti-discrimination measures PovertyWorking Paper
Fiscal capacity and social protection expenditure in developing nationsThere is scant analysis on the causal relationship between fiscal capacity and social protection expenditure in the developing world...
fiscal capacity Inequality InstitutionsWorking Paper
Regime type, inequality, and redistributive transfers in developing countriesThe debate on whether democracy and inequality increase the level of redistribution is ongoing. We construct a model that predicts higher probability of redistribution in democracies than autocracies through social transfers...
regime type Redistribution InequalityBlog
Leading economists agree: closing borders is not the answer to inequality
Building a great big wall will not close the gap. Jorge Duenes/Reuters US President Donald Trump wants to build a wall along the US-Mexican border. Britain wants to retreat into its shell to become an isolated island state ...
Inequality immigration RefugeesWorking Paper
Labour demand and the distribution of wages in South African manufacturing exportersThis paper contributes to the understanding of the linkages between exporting, labour demand, and wages in South Africa...
Exporters Firm-level analysis Labour demandPolicy Brief
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Ethnic inequality and community activities in IndonesiaFor the first time in Indonesia, we jointly analyse several economic statistics and ethnic diversity indicators at national and local levels...
Community activities Ethnic diversity InequalityWorking Paper
Fiscal policy, inequality, and the poor in the developing worldNOTE | Revised version August 2017 available. View and download the revised version . Using comparable fiscal incidence analysis, this paper examines the impact of fiscal policy on inequality and poverty in 25 countries for around 2010...
Fiscal incidence Social spending InequalityIn the media
Blog post on poverty in Mozambique grabs the attention of Mail & Guardian AfricaThe release of the Mozambique’s Fourth Poverty Assessment in late October in Maputo has brought good news to Mozambique. Despite recent economic and political challenges, the findings of the report show significant gains in the fight to reduce...
Poverty Inequality MozambiqueWorking Paper
Redistribution, inequality and political participation: Evidence from Mexico during the 2008 financial crisisThis paper explores the relationship between a large government cash transfer programme, changes in inequality, and political participation in Mexico...
Conditional cash transfers Inequality MexicoWorking Paper
Cash transfers in Latin America: Effects on poverty and redistributionIn this paper, we present comparative evidence for eight Latin American countries regarding design and effects of cash transfers (CTs)...
Cash transfers Child poverty InequalityWorking Paper
Redistribution around the world: Causes and consequencesThis paper re-examines the determinants and consequences of redistribution in light of improved data and methods relative to earlier literature...
Cross-country analysis Growth Inequality