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Income Distribution in Latin America. The Evolution in the Last 20 Years: A Global Approach

While Latin America has historically been considered a region of very high inequality, the performance of most Latin American countries in terms of reduction of income inequality has been remarkable good in the first decade of this century. Given that those improvements took place in a context of

Published in April 2018

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Linkages between Education and Fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa

This paper explores linkages between women’s education and fertility in sub-Saharan Africa, using DHS data from about 30 countries. There are three substantive sets of analyses. First, we shed light on several pathways via which fertility is linked to education. We examine how fertility varies by

Published in November 2017

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An Application of the Alkire-Foster’s Multidimensional Poverty Index to Data from Madagascar: Taking Into Account the Dimensions of Employment and Gender Inequality

In this study, we build what we call the Malagasy Multidimensional Poverty Index (MALAMPI), which is an augmented-MPI. Here, in addition to the standard MPI dimensions (health, education and living standards), we add an additional and highly important dimension, namely employment, which is

Published in April 2017

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Migration patterns and labor market outcomes in Tunisia

This article focuses on the external effects of emigration on non-migrants and particularly on the interactions with labor market outcomes in Tunisia before and after the revolution. Using the new Tunisia Labor Market Panel Survey (TLMPS) we conduct an in-depth analysis of the structure and

Published in February 2017

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Evaluation of the « Ecole et langues nationales en Afrique » program: Methodological Aspects and Interim Assessment

This eight-country evaluation seeks to measure how the ELAN Program methods of written language acquisition have an impact, during the first two years of primary school (Grade 1 and Grade 2), on oral and written language performance in African languages (one language per country) and in French. A

Published in February 2017

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Water from the heights, water from the grassroots: the Governance of common dynamics and public services in La Paz-El Alto

As in many large cities, the now prevailing technical model for producing and distributing water in La Paz and El Alto is that of a centralized network serving the whole population of the two cities. La Paz and El Alto are no exception to the reality of the major cities of the Global South, where

Published in June 2016

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The Commons : Interview with David Bollier