The Informal Economy and Poverty: Evidence and Policy Review
Colin C. Williams – This review explores the relationship between the informal economy and poverty so as to understand whether the informal economy helps those who are poor to escape … Continue reading
Fiscal Policy and Income Inequality
Income inequality has been rising in many parts of the world in recent decades. This, and the social tensions associated with fiscal consolidation that many have faced in part stemming … Continue reading
Making the Urban Poor Safer: Lessons from Nairobi and Mumbai
In Nairobi and Mumbai, urban violence concentrates in the poorest areas where lack of employment, adequate housing and public goods, and individual and collective coping strategies are most acute. As … Continue reading
Political capture and economic inequality
Oxfam – Massive concentration of economic resources in the hands of fewer people presents a real threat to inclusive political and economic systems, and compounds other inequalities – such as … Continue reading
Corporate colonisation of new India
Graham Peebles – Twenty years of corporate colonisation of the Indian countryside has fuelled conflict, forced-urbanisation and the breakdown of the democratic ideal. The fight for land is occurring in many … Continue reading
Why a war on poor people?
Daniel Little – American conservatives for the past several decades have shown a remarkable hostility to poor people in our country…One piece of the puzzle seems to come down to ideology … Continue reading
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