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Blogpost: Monitoring Inequality
26 June 2012 | consumption, inequality, methodology, wealthInequality is getting more attention in efforts to monitor development progress. Alongside established measures of poverty and human development there have been calls for monitoring inequality. How...
Democracy Digest » Social disparities sap quality of democracy, says BTI index
26 March 2012 | blogpost, commentary, democracy, global index, inequality, transitionDespite the promise of the Arab Spring, democracy regressed across much of the world over the past year, according to a new survey of 128 developing and transitional states. Growing social...
Blogpost: Inequality post 2015
14 March 2012 | aid, inequality, mdgs, measurement, methodology, odi, post-2015, research, targets[...] The MDGs don't have much to say about inequality. The targets are all about averages. The target for income poverty, for example, is to halve it by 2015. For maternal mortality, it is to bring...
Publication: Education Inequality and Economic Growth: Framework for the Evaluation of Pakistan’s Education Policy (MPRA, 3 Nov 2010)
04 November 2010 | asia pacific, correlation, education, inequality, pakistanThis paper attempts to substantiate the Education-Growth relationship with a view to evaluate Pakistan’s Education Policy over the last two decades. With a view to the inadequacy of the generally...
Publication: The Impact of Government Budget shifts to Regional Disparities in Indonesia: Before and After Decentralisation (MPRA, 23 Sept 2010)
23 September 2010 | asia pacific, decentralisation, indonesia, inequality, publicationSince its independence, Indonesia has experience a rapid and uneven economic growth. The financial crisis in 1998 has led Indonesia to decentralisation with a new political and government budget...
Publication: Does inequality harm growth only in democracies? (MRPA, 15 Sept 2010)
17 September 2010 | causal relationship, growth, inequality, publicationWe reconstruct a dataset used by Persson and Tabellini (AER, 1994) to test the robustness of their finding that inequality reduces income growth, but only in democracies. We find that their result is...
Publication: Is Life Getting Better?: A Beginners Guide to Inequality Data Sources (Wikiprogress, 6 Sept 2010)
09 September 2010 | data, inequality, publicationThis is the seventh in a series of project-base pamphlets, in which the authors discuss 3 data sources for measuring inequality.
Publication: Is Corruption Really Bad for Inequality? Evidence from Latin America (ACRN, 18 Aug 2010)
20 August 2010 | correlation, inequality, latin america, publication, researchIn this paper the authors present new evidence regarding the relationship between corruption and income inequality. They use panel data to show that in Latin America lower levels of corruption are...
Indigenous Peoples Still Among Poorest in World, but Progress Reported in Some Countries (World Bank, 12 May 2010)
12 May 2010 | indigenous, inequality, poverty, press releaseIndigenous Peoples worldwide continue to be among the poorest of the poor and continue to suffer from higher poverty, lower education, and a greater incidence of disease and discrimination than other...
Confronting persistent inequality- a focus of 2009 (RT@UNDP, 12 May 2010)
12 May 2010 | human dev, human security, inequality, nhdr, publication, report, undpThe Report, ‘Human Security, Today and Tomorrow,’ casts a spotlight on the state of human security in Thailand from multiple perspectives. The analysis in the report covers economic security,...