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Government of Kenya (GoK) integrated gender in a pronounced way in the design and implementation of the Kenya Agricultural …
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investigate the gender implications of recently established farmer groups. Traditionally, banana has been a women’s crop in Kenya …With the commercialization of agriculture, women are increasingly disadvantaged because of persistent gender … technology could potentially accelerate this trend. Here, we use survey data of small-scale banana producers in Kenya to …
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Using survey data from Central Kenya, I find that the difference in prices received by female compared to male … in the price gap drives a gender difference in the value added by traders. If women had the same characteristics as men … price as men in the top quartile. Amongst suppliers, the price difference between men and women is significantly more …
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design and outcomes. This constitutes a key challenge in Tanzania, where women and femaleheaded households are constrained by …, through their effects on workingage women's employment in the 2000s. We also discuss the extent to which women's employment is … areas of financial services, labour market regulations, and entrepreneurship support, and women's labour market position has …
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This study investigates the factors that underlay the low labour force participation rate among Palestinian-Arab women … in Israel relative to Jewish women despite the high educational attainment among this group. We focus on four factors … retirement of Arab women from the labour market. We find that all four of these factors affect the probability of Palestinian …
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Survey respondents in fourteen countries representing 62% of the world’s Muslim population indicate that approval of Islamist terror is not associated with religiosity, lack of education, poverty, or income dissatisfaction. Instead, it is associated with urban poverty. These results are...
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