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  Inequality, poverty reduction and the middle-income trap in Vietnam

  2015

  Vietnam has experienced a remarkable period of economic growth in the past two decades. The country now sits firmly in the World Bank’s category of ‘lower middle-income countries’. Sustained reductions in poverty have also been acheived. However, the task is not yet complete.
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  Wages and inequality in the Egyptian labor market in an era of financial crisis and revolution

  Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2015

  This paper investigates the pattern of wages and wage inequality in Egypt over the period 1988-2012, a time of substantial economic and political changes, including the recent global financial crises and the January 25th 2011 revolution.
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  Making youth employment policies work

  Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis, 2015

  Government policy and public investment in Kenya has focused disproportionately on formal private sector development and on education that is geared to urban wage employment as a solution to youth unemployment. A closer look at the figures, however, reveals that underemployment, especially in rural areas, is the greater challenge.
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  Gender Wage Gap in the Last Ten Years: A Case Study of India

  Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2014

  Can India achieve its goal of becoming the next superpower without empowering women? While India is poised to become a powerful global player in the coming years, the paper argues that India is one of the worst places in the world to be a woman.
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  Sustainable and inclusive growth in Africa: industrialization a must

  Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2014

  Africa’s economic performance in the last fifteen years has been characterized as “impressive” due to enhanced real GDP and per capita GDP growth. This positive growth has been due in part to the rise of emerging economies, whose demand for raw materials represents a major opportunity for resource-rich African countries.
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  The role of targeting in service delivery to vulnerable populations – the FANRPAN Household Vulnerability Index (HVI) - a synthesis of three country reports

  Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2009

  The objective of the Household Vulnerability Index (HVI) pilot study, conducted in Lesotho, Swaziland and Zimbabwe, was to further develop and test the HVI as a statistical tool for quantifying household vulnerability resulting from shocks such as HIV and AIDS. Key outputs from the study were a refined method for constructing the HVI and a computerised tool for its computation.
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  Inequality and economic marginalisation: How the structure of the economy impacts on opportunities on the margins

  Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2011

  In the face of a long-standing unemployment crisis that increasingly threatens social and economic stability, employment has at last taken centre stage in South African policy, and with this, focus is shifting to the structural constraints on employment creation within the economy. The New Growth Path, approved by Cabinet in November 2010, starts to tackle these issues.
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  An appraisal of local economic development impact assessment methodologies in the Context of the Community Work Programme (CWP)

  Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2013

  The Community Work Programme (CWP) aims to provide an employment ‘safety net’ that provides access to a minimum level of regular work on an on-going and predictable basis for those who require it the most unemployed and underemployed people at the local community level.
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  Predicted poverty impacts of expanding the Community Work Program me in South Africa: an analysis of income poverty and inequality

  Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2012

  The Employment Guarantee Scheme (EGS), which guarantees low-skilled work to poor, unemployed individuals and in the process contributes to the creation of productive community assets and services.
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  Manufacturing employment and equality in South Africa

  Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2014

  In  2014, South Africa remained one of the most unequal countries in the world, an outlier by global standards in terms of both overall inequality as measured by the Gini coefficient and levels of joblessness. For proponents of industrialisation as central to long-term development, this situation raises two questions.

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