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Inequalities in Sub-Saharan Africa: Multidimensional Perspectives and Future Challenges
Washington, DC: World Bank; Agence Française de Développement (AFD) (2025), xxxvii, 253 pp.
Governing the Interlinkages Between the SDGs: Approaches, Opportunities and Challenges
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xvi, 247 pp.
"The book [...] examines the dedicated policies targeting the SDGs, as well as political and institutional drivers of synergies and trade-offs between the SDGs in selected key areas – both cross-nationally and in specific country contexts. Their analysis moves beyond the focus on links between SDG
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The Media and Inequality
Abingdon; New York: Routledge (2023), 264 pp.
"This book brings together a vast range of pre-eminent experts, academics, and practitioners to interrogate the role of media in representing economic inequality. It explores and deconstructs the concept of economic inequality by examining the different dimensions of inequality and how it has evolve
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Condiciones de vida de los venezolanos ENCOVI 2022
Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (UCAB) (2022), 54 slides
"En 2022 se ha observado una ralentización del nivel de la actividad económica (7,2%) en comparación al segundo semestre de 2021 y se pronostica que todavía caerá en 2023 (4,4%), a niveles insuficientes para la recuperación a los niveles pre-crisis. Una combinación de factores dan cuenta de e
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Guía para periodistas: Temas y preguntas sobre desigualdad para el debate electoral
Dejusticia; Fundación para la Libertad de Prensa (FLIP) (2022), 64 pp.
"Como la desigualdad es una decisión política y no una fatalidad, este es el momento para preguntarse ¿qué piensan hacer nuestros próximos gobernantes para que haya menos pobreza y mayor acceso a oportunidades? ¿Cuáles fórmulas o herramientas desarrollarían para contribuir a que la cancha e
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Poverty Mapping: Innovative Approaches to Creating Poverty Maps with New Data Sources
Washington, DC: World Bank (2022), 48 pp.
The magic potion of austerity and poverty alleviation: Narratives of political capture and inequality in the Middle East and North Africa
Oxford: Oxfam (2021), 45 pp.
"Dominant narratives promoting economic growth at the expense of state institutions and basic social services have long underpinned a neoliberal model of spiralling debt and austerity in the MENA region. This exacerbates political capture and inequality and takes shape in an environment of media con
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Tangible Information and Citizen Empowerment: Identification Cards and Food Subsidy Programs in Indonesia
Journal of Political Economy, volume 126, issue 2 (2018), pp. 451-491
"Redistribution programs in developing countries often “leak” because local officials do not implement programs as the central government intends. We study one approach to reducing leakage. In an experiment in over 550 villages, we test whether mailing cards with program information to targeted
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Ungleichheit: Was wir dagegen tun können
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Lizenzausg. (2017), 474 pp.
Encuesta de opinión: Pobreza, participación y medios
Santiago de Chile: Programa Comunicación y Pobreza (2013), 67 pp.
"Con excepción del consumo de radio y televisión abierta -que es bastante transversal-, los resultados dan cuenta de una “dieta medial” altamente diferenciada entre los individuos en situación de pobreza y el resto de la población. Esta diferencia se ve especialmente reflejada en el consumo
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Communicating Social Change: Structure, Culture, and Agency
New York: Routledge (2011), xiii, 342 pp.
"Communicating Social Change: Structure, Culture, and Agency explores the use of communication to transform global, national, and local structures of power that create and sustain oppressive conditions. Author Mohan J. Dutta describes the social challenges that exist in current globalization politic
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Comunicación móvil y desarrollo económico y social en América Latina
Madrid; Barcelona: Fundación Telefónica; Ariel (2011), 390 pp.
"La rápida difusión de la telefonía móvil en los países emergentes está cambiando las relaciones entre los actores económicos, los modos de relación interpersonal y la dinámica política de estas sociedades de forma acelerada y difícil de predecir. A lo largo de la historia, la tecnología
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Poverty Reduction with Strategic Communication: Moving from Awareness Raising to Sustained Citizen Participation
Washington, DC: World Bank, Communication for Governance and Accountability Program (CommGAP) (2011), x, 92 pp.
"This publication updates a 2005 review of communication in Poverty Reduction Strategies (PRS). It includes four country case studies (Ghana, Tanzania, Moldova, and Nepal) and a regional analysis of Latin America and the Caribbean. It explores how the use of strategic communication has expanded beyo
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Building Commitment to Reform Through Strategic Communication: The Five Key Decisions
Key Guides
Washington, DC: World Bank (2009), xiii, 133 pp.
"The Five Communication Management Decision Tool helps reformers and their teams develop a framework for their communication strategies. This decision tool helps managers see change initiatives through the eyes of those who will be affected by the reforms. When the decision tool is used in the early
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Communication for Development and Social Change
Los Angeles et al.: Sage (2008), 428 pp.
"This book includes 17 articles on the current state of communication for development from renowned communication practitioners and scholars. It covers five areas: an introduction to the relationship between development, participation and communication; the theoretical underpinnings of development c
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Development Communication Sourcebook: Broadening the Boundaries of Communication
Key Guides
Washington, DC: World Bank (2008), xx, 244 pp.
"This book is essential reading for anybody interested in development communication. Mefalopulos, a World Bank development communication officer with wide-ranging experiences in the field, presents four modules. The first module concisely presents the concepts and applications of development communi
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Digital Poverty: Concept and Measurement, with an Application to Peru
Kellogg Institute (2007), 26 pp.
"This paper discusses the notions of demand, poverty, information needs, and information and communication technologies (ICTs) to offer a concept of digital poverty, which may be useful to estimate the digital poverty level in Latin America and the Caribbean. The paper is composed of two sections. T
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Poverty: An International Glossary
London: Zed Books; CROP International Studies in Poverty Research, 2nd ed. (2006), 246 pp.
"This second edition of this highly-successful glossary provides an exhaustive and authoritative guide to over 200 technical terms used in contemporary scholarly research on poverty. It seeks to make researchers, students and policy makers aware of the multi-dimensional and complex nature of this so
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Information Economy Report 2006: The Development Perspective
New York; Geneva: United Nations (2006), 314 pp.
Media Matters: Perspectives on Advancing Governance and Development from the Global Forum for Media Development
Deep Insights
Paris: Internews Europe; Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD) (2006), 222 pp.
"Draws together thinking and analysis that covers the breadth and depth of the media development landscape. The opening section, 'Why Media Matters: Global Perspectives' gathers the work of several thought leaders on major trends that cut across both the communications and development policy arenas;
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