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Better measures of informality can improve poverty reduction policy
In a recent study, my co-authors and I propose a new way to measure informality by household, rather than by individual worker. We find that such an...
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Intergenerational mobility, human capital accumulation, and growth in IndiaProductivity and socio-economic progress are inter-connected. Economic growth funds policies that promote socio-economic progress, while the latter serves as a growth engine. A society with high mobility is one where individual achievements are...
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Poverty and inequality – twins or just siblings?
Sitting in the large conference room where we are being invited to ‘Think WIDER’ at the WIDER Development Conference this September. Surrounded by...
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Revisiting the impact of direct taxes and transfers on poverty and inequality in South AfricaThis paper uses a recent household survey and the CEQ framework to revisit and extend previous research on the impact of fiscal policy on income redistribution, and poverty in South Africa. We find, in accordance with previous research, that direct...
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What would it take for Mozambique’s growth to be inclusive?
In late November 2017 more than 100 people gathered in Maputo, Mozambique, to participate in a joint reflection on poverty and inequality in the...
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Learning from a half-century of economic development in AsiaWhen Gunnar Myrdal published his magnum opus, Asian Drama: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations, in 1968, he was deeply pessimistic about the development prospects in Asia. The fifty years since witnessed a remarkable economic transformation in...
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In memory of Martin Ravallion: A global leader in development economics(19 March 1952 – 24 December 2022) It is with the greatest sadness and a deep sense of grief and shock that we received the news of the passing of...
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