Trade Liberalization and the Rise of Populism in Brazil
Published by: UNU-WIDER
This paper investigates the long-term impact of economic shocks on populism, by exploiting a natural experiment created by the trade...
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Published by: UNU-WIDER
This paper investigates the long-term impact of economic shocks on populism, by exploiting a natural experiment created by the trade...
Published by: Sage Journals
This article analyzes the role of individual redistributive preferences on protest participation. The article focuses on Latin America,...
Published by: IDS
This paper discusses how disparities and in particular perceptions of inequality may have influenced political participation in Western Balkans over the last years. The arrival of the international crisis in the last quarter of 2008 has had not only economic but also significant political consequences on the region.
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Drawing on the contributions from the World Social Science Report 2016, Challenging Inequalities: Pathways to a Just World, this article...
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This paper analyses the role of perceptions of inequality and distributive beliefs in motivating people to engage in protests. The paper focuses on the case of Latin America, where an interesting paradox has been observed: despite considerable reductions in inequality, most countries in Latin America have experienced increases in protests and civil unrest in the last decade. In order to understand
Published by: Oxford University Press
In this Journal article, we provide evidence on whether a national poverty alleviation programme in Kenya can affect inter-temporal decisions.
Although Hungary and Iceland suffered a similar fall in GDP, their respective governments decided to follow different strategies of adjustment. Each country cut spending according to different priorities
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Understanding its determinants can provide vital insight into decisions ranging from savings and financial investment to smoking, obesity and human capital accumulation.
This paper analyses the long run determinants of wage inequality in the manufacturing sector for a group of East Asian countries that have experienced rapid structural transformations in recent decades.
This paper provides an impact evaluation analysis of the 2009 Australian Household Stimulus Package, which was composed by three main cash payments: the Back to School Bonus, the Single Income Family Bonus and the Tax Bonus for Working Australians.