Life is Unfair in Latin America, But Does it Matter for Growth?

Blanco, Luisa

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2009.09.002

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“…Measures of income in equal are represented by the ratio of the top 20th percentile’s share of wealth to the bottom 20th percentile’s gathered from the World Income Inequality Database compiled by the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research [UN-WIDER] (2008). This operationalization was preferred over the more common Gini Index because of concerns about its cross-cultural and methodological validity depending on the type of data the used to calculate the coefficient (Blanco, 2010; Kovandzic, Vieraitis, & Yeisley, 1998; see also Pratt & Godsey, 2002, 2003). More specifically, Kovandzic et al (1998) point out that Gini coefficients based on grouped data tend to underestimate the share of income held by the highest percentage.…”

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Do legitimate polities have fewer homicides? A cross-national analysis

Nivette

Eisner

2012

Homicide Studies

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This research is concerned with developing and testing models of political legitimacy as a predictor of homicide on the cross-national level. Specifically, we used Bruce Gilley’s (2006) theoretically driven indicator of political legitimacy to examine its direct and moderating effects on homicide. This measure is available for 65 nations, and is composed of indicators representing a state’s capacity to obey its own laws (legality), the degree to which civil and political values coincide (justification), and the level of behavioral consent of the people (consent). After controlling for a number of widely acknowledged predictors, legitimacy was found to be significantly negatively related to homicide.

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Do legitimate polities have fewer homicides? A cross-national analysis

Nivette

Eisner

2012

Homicide Studies

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“…Africa, in particular, faces a daunting challenge, with approximately 47% of the population in sub-Saharan Africa living on less than $1.25 per day (World Hunger, 2015). Not surprisingly, the poverty within BOP markets is intertwined with myriad difficulties, including significant hunger (30% of the population in Africa remains undernourished; World Hunger, 2015), extreme vulnerability to external shocks, such as droughts and disease epidemics (e.g., Berhanu, Colman, & Fayissa, 2007;Blanco, 2010;Horrell & Krishnan, 2007), and violence (Sutter, Webb, Kistruck, & Bailey, 2014).…”

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Household Enterprise in Base-of-the-Pyramid Markets: the Influence of Institutions and Family Embeddedness

Webb

Pryor

Kellermanns

2015

Africa Journal of Management

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Nearly half of the population in Africa lives on less than $1.25 per day in what scholars refer to as base-of-the-pyramid (BOP) markets. More broadly, BOP markets account for two billion of the world's population living in extreme poverty. Household enterprises, a dominant organizational form in BOP markets, draw upon significant levels of family involvement. In order to cope with poverty, the involvement often includes inputs from elderly to young family members. Yet, we have little understanding of how family embeddedness influences household enterprise outcomes in BOP markets. The article presents a model that explains how the institutional environments with BOP markets influence family embeddedness in the household enterprise, and how family embeddedness influences household enterprises' povertyrelated outcomes (i.e., subsistence and child well-being). It also examines how household enterprises can draw upon income diversification strategies to reduce their vulnerability to poverty. The theory presented herein provides a foundation for scholars to examine family firm-related issues in BOP markets.

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“…Highly unequal land distribution and access to assets have made it difficult to establish economic growth patterns that are inclusive of the poor in Latin America (Deininger, 2005). Further, recent empirical evidence from Latin America suggests that the share of family farms (measured by having four workers, including family members, per farm) in total farms is positively related to economic growth, indicating that inequality in farm holdings is limiting development (Blanco, 2010).…”

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Assessing the Effectiveness of Agricultural Interventions

González,

Maffioli,

Salazar

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The volume Assessing the Effectiveness of Agricultural Interventions is the Special Topic for the Development Effectiveness Overview 2008-2009. The Special Topic provides an in-depth analysis of what we know about the effectiveness of projects in one of the Bank¿s specific areas of intervention and identifies what we can do to improve the development effectiveness in that area. This year, the Special Topic focuses on agricultural production and productivity, an area in which important changes have recently taken place and in which governments have taken on the dual challenges of promoting competitiveness while ensuring food security. This Special Topic identifies agricultural projects that the IDB and others have been funding in recent years to promote agricultural production and productivity, and reviews the available evidence on their effectiveness. It then identifies where gaps lie in the existing evidence, what needs to be evaluated in the future, and how this might be done.

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Life is Unfair in Latin America, But Does it Matter for Growth?

Cited by 5 publications

References 57 publications

Do legitimate polities have fewer homicides? A cross-national analysis

Do legitimate polities have fewer homicides? A cross-national analysis

Household Enterprise in Base-of-the-Pyramid Markets: the Influence of Institutions and Family Embeddedness

Assessing the Effectiveness of Agricultural Interventions

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