Berk Ozler

TL;DR: The World Development Report 2006 as discussed by the authors analyzes the relationship between equity and development and discusses the two channels of impact (the effects of unequal opportunities when markets are imperfect, and the consequences of inequity for the quality of institutions a society develops) as well as intrinsic motives.

TL;DR: In this article, the impact of conditionality in cash transfer programs with two distinct interventions: unconditional transfers (UCT arm) and transfers conditional on school attendance (CCT arm) targeted at adolescent girls in Malawi on individual level.

TL;DR: Cash transfer programmes can reduce HIV and HSV-2 infections in adolescent schoolgirls in low-income settings and detected no significant difference between intervention and control groups for weighted HIV prevalence.

TL;DR: Demombynes and Ozler as discussed by the authors examined the effects of local inequality on property and violent crime in South Africa and found that crime rates are 20-30 percent higher in police station jurisdictions that are the wealthiest among their neighbors, suggesting that criminals travel to neighborhoods where the expected returns from burglary are highest.

TL;DR: This article found that real per capita household expenditures declined for those at the bottom end of the expenditure distribution during this period of low GDP growth, and inequality also increased, mainly due to a jump in inequality among the African population.