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Eruptions of popular anger : the economics of the Arab spring and its aftermath /
Sets out to answer three puzzles-- the "Arab inequality" puzzle of civil uprisings in countries with low-to-moderate and stagnant economic inequality, the "unhappy development" paradox of increasing dissatisfaction at a time of moderate-to-rapid development, and the paradox of po...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, DC :
World Bank Group,
[2018]
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| Colección: | MENA development report.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments
- About the author and contributors. Overview : Three puzzles
- Summary of findings. Part 1 The "Arab inequality" puzzle : 1 Economic inequality: measurement and biases : Introduction
- Income inequality
- Wealth inequality
- 2 Welfare dynamics: definitions and measurement : Introduction
- Defining the middle class
- Synthetic panel method
- Welfare dynamics. Part 2 The "unhappy development" syndrome : 3 Dissatisfaction with life: subjective data analysis : Introduction
- Subjective well-being versus monetary welfare measures
- Measuring life satisfaction
- Dissatisfaction with life in Arab countries
- 4 Subjective well-being dynamics : Introduction
- Objective and subjective well-being: mixed evidence
- Subjective well-being dynamics with synthetic panels
- 5 Symptoms of a broken social contract : Introduction
- A broken social contract
- Major grievances behind the Arab unhappiness. Part 3 The paradox of "political violence in middle-income countries" : 6 Arab Spring protesters and protests : Introduction
- The profile of Arab Spring protesters
- Arab Spring protests and riots
- 7 Aftermath of the Arab Spring : Introduction
- State responses to the Arab Spring
- Foreign interventions, identity-based polarization, and high-intensity civil wars
- Overlapping horizontal divisions
- What explains the Arab paradox of "political violence in middle-income countries"?
- 8 Development consequences and policy implications : Development consequences
- Toward a new social contract and governance model.