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Affirmative action around the world: insights from a new dataset

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  • Rachel M. Gisselquist
  • Simone Schotte
  • Min Jung Kim

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Affirmative action, or positive discrimination favouring the members of marginalized populations, is a key policy approach for addressing group-based inequalities along ethnic, religious, and racial lines (e.g. horizontal inequalities). It is adopted in dozens of countries around the world in the areas of, for instance, university enrolment, public employment, and political representation as corrective social justice measures and means to mitigate ethnic conflict.

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  • Rachel M. Gisselquist & Simone Schotte & Min Jung Kim, 2023. "Affirmative action around the world: insights from a new dataset," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2023-59, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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