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DP2005/03: A Macro Policy for Poverty Eradication through Structural Change

Rehman Sobhan

DP2005/02: From Local to Global and Informal to Formal: Entering Mainstream Markets

Reema Nanavaty

DP2005/01: Unlocking Public Entrepreneurship and Public Economies

Elinor Ostrom

UNU-WIDER Research Paper DP2004/10: Globalization and Regional Income Inequality: Evidence from within China

Guanghua Wan, Ming Lu and Zhao Chen

UNU-WIDER Research Paper DP2004/09: Development Policy: An Introduction for Students

Tony Addison

UNU-WIDER Research Paper DP2004/08: Microsimulation, CGE and Macro Modelling for Transition and Developing Economies

James Davies

UNU-WIDER Research Paper DP2004/07: Subjective Measures of Well-being

Ruut Veenhoven

UNU-WIDER Research Paper DP2004/06: Human Well-being: Concepts and Conceptualizations

Des Gasper

UNU-WIDER Research Paper DP2004/05: Gender-Related Indicators of Well-Being

Stephan Klasen

UNU-WIDER Research Paper DP2004/04: Conceptual and Measurement Issues in Poverty Analysis

Erik Thorbecke

UNU-WIDER Research Paper DP2004/03: A Development-focused Allocation of the Special Drawing Rights

Ernest Aryeetey

UNU-WIDER Research Paper DP2004/02: The Rise or Fall of World Inequality: A Spurious Controversy?

Bart Capéau and André Decoster

UNU-WIDER Research Paper DP2004/01: Spatial Decomposition of Inequality

Anthony Shorrocks and Guanghua Wan

212: Educational inequality in Mozambique

Servaas van der Berg, Carlos Da Maia and Cobus Burger

211: Does women’s empowerment affect the health of children? The case of Mozambique

Joseph Deutsch and Jacques Silber

210: The counting approach to multidimensional poverty: The case of four African countries

Valérie Bérenger

209: Living conditions and well-being: Evidence from African countries

Andrew Clark and Conchita D’Ambrosio

208: Investigating growing inequality in Mozambique

Carlos Gradín and Finn Tarp

207: Gender inequality in employment in Mozambique

Carlos Gradín and Finn Tarp

206: Robustness tests for multidimensional poverty comparisons

Sam Jones

205: Fishermen’s wives: On the cultural origins of violence against women

Vincent Leyaro, Pablo Selaya and Neda Trifkovic

204: Inequality, ethnicity, and social cohesion

Omar Shahabudin McDoom

203: The role of governance and international norms in managing natural resources

James Cust

202: New data, new approaches and new evidence: A policy synthesis

Channing Arndt

201: The long(er)-term impacts of Chile Solidario on human capital and labour income

Guido Neidhöfer and Miguel Niño-Zarazúa

200: Are politically connected firms less constrained in credit markets?

John Rand

199: Smoothing or strengthening the ‘Great Gatsby Curve’? The intergenerational impact of China’s New Rural Pension Scheme

Jing You and Miguel Niño-Zarazúa

198: Entrepreneurship and human capital development in children

Kasper Brandt, Longinus Rutasitara, Onesmo Selejio and Neda Trifkovic

197: Contracts between smallholders and private firms in Mozambique and their implications on food security

Cecilia Navarra

196: Female work status and child nutritional outcome in Nigeria

Rama Lionel Ngenzebuke and Yoko Akachi

195: Family structure, education and women’s employment in rural India

Sowmya Dhanaraj and Vidya Mahambare

194: Inequality and fiscal redistribution in Mexico: 1992–2015

John Scott, Enrique de la Rosa and Rodrigo Aranda Balcazar

193: Quantifying the impacts of expanding social protection on efficiency and equity: Evidence from a behavioural microsimulation model for Ghana

Robert Osei, Jukka Pirttilä and Pia Rattenhuber

192: Global inequality in length of life: 1950–2015

Vanesa Jordá and Miguel Niño-Zarazúa

191: The impact of infrastructure shocks on agricultural markets: Evidence from the Zambezi river in Mozambique

Cesar Salazar and Sam Jones

190: What is the state of the manufacturing sector in Mozambique?

Schou Soren and Fisker Peter

190: Poverty and wellbeing impacts of microfinance: What do we know?

Mathilde Maîtrot and Miguel Niño-Zarazúa

189: Settlement and labour force outcomes for Afghan immigrants and their children in Canada

Ravi Pendakur

189: Inequality trends and dynamics in India: The bird’s-eye and the granular perspectives

Lanjouw Peter and Hai-Anh Dang

188: The resettlement of Vietnamese refugees across Canada over three decades

Feng Hou

188: Inequality in Mexico: Labour markets and fiscal redistribution 1989–2014

Raymundo Campos-Vazquez, Nora Lustig and Scott John

187: Intergenerational mobility, human capital accumulation, and growth in India

Roy van der Weide and Vigh Melinda

187: Governance and the reversal of women’s rights: The case of abortion in El Salvador

Jocelyn Viterna, Jose Santos Guardado Bautista, Silvia Ivette Juarez Barrios and Alba Evelyn Cortez

186: What are the main drivers of Brazilian income distribution changes in the new millennium?

Neri Marcelo

186: Labour income inequality in Mexico: Puzzles solved and unsolved

Raymundo Campos-Vazquez and Nora Lustig

185: Information, identification, or neither?: Experimental evidence on role models in Viet Nam

Carol Newman, Finn Tarp and Narciso Gaia

185: Oil discovery and macroeconomic management: The recent Ghanaian experience

Mahamudu Bawumia and Håvard Halland

184: Toward closer cohesion of international tax statistics: The ICTD/UNU-WIDER GRD 2017

Kyle McNabb

184: Taking stock of South African income inequality

Murray Leibbrandt, Ranchhod Vima and Green Pippa

183: The decline of the labour share in Mexico: 1990–2015

Carlos A. Ibarra and Jaime Ros

183: Top incomes in China: Data collection and the impact on income inequality

Shi Li, Wan Haiyuan and Li Qinghai

182: Impact of school feeding programmes on educational outcomes: Evidence from dry cereals in schools in Burkina Faso

Pouirkèta Rita Nikiema

182: The dynamics of spatial and local inequalities in India

Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay, Urzainqui David and Urzainqui David

181: Exiting the fragility trap: Rethinking our approach to the world’s most fragile states

David Carment and Yiagadeesen Samy

181: A new inequality estimate for urban India?: Using house prices to estimate inequality in Mumbai

Rongen Gerton

180: The economics and politics of foreign aid and domestic revenue

Abrams M.E. Tagem

180: Construction and public procurement in Uganda

Colonnelli Emanuele and Ntungire Nicole

180: Tax revenues in transition countries: Structural changes and their policy implications

Ismoil Khujamkulov

179: Regulatory structures and challenges to developmental extractives: Some practical observations from Ghana

Toni Aubynn

179: Uganda’s oil: How much, when, and how will it be governed?

Wolf Sebastian and Potluri Vishal

179: Optimal transfers with distribution regressions: An application to Egypt at the dawn of the XXIst century

Christophe Muller

178: Conflict and development: Recent research advances and future agendas

Tilman Brück, Patricia Justino and Charles Patrick MartinShields

178: Understanding the boom: A framing paper

Henstridge Mark

178: A review of social issues for biofuels investment in Mozambique

Emílio Tostão, Giles Henley, Joel Tembe and Aristides Baloi

177: Tax-benefit microsimulation and income redistribution in Ecuador

H. Xavier Jara and Marcelo Varela

177: Economic impacts of developing a biofuel industry in Mozambique

Faaiqa Hartley, Dirk van Seventer, Emilio Tostão and Channing Arndt

177: Understanding the boom: Country study—Tanzania

Henstridge Mark

176: Ethnic fragmentation and school provision in India

Nishant Chadha and Bharti Nandwani

176: From manufacturing-led export growth to a twenty-first-century inclusive growth strategy: Explaining the demise of a successful growth model and what to do about it

Joseph Stiglitz

176: Gender divide in agricultural productivity in Mozambique

João Morgado and Vincenzo Salvucci

175: Welfare dynamics in India over a quarter-century: Poverty, vulnerability, and mobility, 1987–2012

Lanjouw Peter and Hai-Anh Dang

175: Tanzania—from mining to oil and gas: Structural change or just big numbers?

Alan R. Roe

175: The role of oil and gas in the development of the global economy

Paul Stevens

174: Inequality in China: Development, transition, and policy

Shi Li, Terry Sicular and Finn Tarp

174: Agro-processing and horticultural exports from Africa

Emiko Fukase and Will Martin

174: Energy subsidies, international aid, and the politics of reform

Neil McCulloch

173: Tax revenue implications of trade liberalization in low-income countries

Lovisa Moller

173: Making marriages last: trust is good, but credible information is better

Rebecca Thornton and Hans-Peter Kohler

173: Assessing the quality of the income data used in SAMOD, a South African tax-benefit microsimulation model

Barnes Helen, Wright Gemma, Noble Michael, McLennan David and Masekesa Faith

172: Fiscal decentralization and the shadow economy

Petr Janský and Miroslav Palansky

172: Multilateral development aid: Assessing the major replenishments of 2016

Richard Manning

172: The role of the construction sector in influencing natural resource use, structural change, and industrial development in Zambia

Liebenthal Robert and Cheelo Caesar

171: Are taxes good for your health?

Patrick Carter and Alex Cobham

171: Patterns of international capital flows and their implications for developing countries

Mika Nieminen

171: Changing male perceptions of gender equality: Evidence from an experimental study

Cuong Nguyen and Finn Tarp

170: Ethnic inequality and community activities in Indonesia

Christophe Muller

170: Backsliding and reversal: The J-Curve revisited

Rachael Calleja, David Carment, Mark Haichin and Peter Tikuisis

170: Economic inequality and subjective well-being across the world

Conchita D'Ambrosio and Andrew Clark

169: Welfare dynamics in rural Viet Nam: Learning from regular, high-quality panel data

Andy McKay, Saurabh Singhal and Finn Tarp

169: The expansion of regional supermarket chains and implications for local suppliers: A comparison of findings from South Africa, Botswana, Zambia, and Zimbabwe

Reena das Nair and Shingie Chisoro

169: Development and poverty in sub-Saharan Africa

Tony Addison, Ville Pikkarainen, Risto Rönkkö and Finn Tarp

168: Constitutional social and environmental human rights and child health outcomes in Latin American countries

Hiroaki Matsuura

168: Guinea-Bissau: War, Reconstruction and Reform

Jens Kovsted and Finn Tarp

168: The effects of land titling in Tanzania

Jehovaness Aikaeli and Thomas Markussen

168: Guinea-Bissau: War, Reconstruction and Reform

Kovsted Jens and Finn Tarp

168: Tax-benefit microsimulation model in developing countries: A feasibility study for an extension of SOUTHMOD in Indonesia

Muttaqien Arip, Denisa Sologon and Cathal O'Donoghue

167: Intersecting inequalities and the Sustainable Development Goals: Insights from Brazil

Naila Kabeer and Ricardo Santos

167: Horizontal inequality, status optimization, and interethnic marriage in a conflict-affected society

Omar Shahabudin McDoom

167: Social capital and household vulnerability: New evidence from rural Viet Nam

Vo Thang

166: Breaking the metal ceiling: Female entrepreneurs who succeed in male-dominated sectors

Francisco Campos, Markus Goldstein, Laura McGorman, Ana Maria Munoz Boudet and Obert Pimhidzai

166: Mapping deprivation in Mozambique: An analysis of census data (1997–2007)

José Cardoso, João Morgado and Vincenzo Salvucci

166: Understanding the implications of the boom-bust cycle of global copper prices for natural resources, structural change, and industrial development in Zambia

Liebenthal Robert and Cheelo Caesar