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Measuring progress toward empowerment: Women's empowerment in agriculture index: Baseline report
Malapit, Hazel J.; Sproule, Kathryn; Kovarik, Chiara; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) baseline survey results, summarizing both findings from the WEAI survey and the relationships between the WEAI and various outcomes of interest to the US Government’s Feed the...
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Die Frau auf dem Socialen Gebiete
Stein, Lorenz von - 1880
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The living wage of women workers : a study of incomes and expenditures of 450 women in the city of Boston
Bosworth, Louise Marion - 1911
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Employment and Poverty in India: 2000-2005
Sundaram, K. - eSocialSciences - 2007
This paper is principally focused on the changes in the size and structure of work force and the changes in labour productivity, wages and poverty in India in the first quinquennuim of the 21st century. The period between 2000 and 2005 saw a sharp acceleration in work force growth, and, on the...
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Polysémie des approches monétaires de la pauvreté : le dilemme rural-urbain au Sénégal
Minvielle, Jean-Paul - In: Recherches économiques de Louvain 73 (2007) 2, pp. 193-215
It is usually admitted that poverty in Africa is mainly rural. This opinion is confirmed by the analysis made on the basis of the incidence of poverty. Two methodological choices influences this result : firstly the use of a single poverty line for the whole country, secondly the focusing on...
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Investing in Women: 1999-2001 Title: Invirtiendo en las mujeres: 1999-2001
Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American …; … - 2002
The second issue of "Investing in Women" underscores the Inter-American Development Bank's commitment to enhancing the … contributions of women to development and ensuring their equitable participation in Bank-funded programs. The projects showcased in … this brochure highlight the importance of reducing the obstacles faced by women and emphasize the roles they play as agents …
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Contractual constraints upon the processes of labour exchange in rural Kenya.
P, Collier - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1983
ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on labour contract issues in rural area labour markets, comprising a case study of Kenya …
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Income and Poverty Impacts of USAID-Funded Programs to Promote Maize, Horticulture, and Dairy Enterprises in Kenya, 2004-2010
Smale, Melinda; Mathenge, Mary K.; Jayne, Thomas S.; … - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2012
, and horticulture enterprises among smallholder farmers in Kenya under the Strategic Objective 7 of Increased Rural … participating in the programs. The programs monitored include the Kenya Maize Development Program (KMDP), the Kenya Horticulture … Development Project (KHDP), and the Kenya Dairy Development Program (KDDP), which is now known as the Kenya Dairy Sector …
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When Does Ethnic Diversity Lead to Violence? Evidence from the 2007 Elections in Kenya
Markussen, Thomas; Mbuvi, Kitavi - Økonomisk Institut, Københavns Universitet - 2011
Some people have a concern for a fair distribution of incomes while others do not. Does such a concern matter for majority voting on redistribution? Fairness preferences are relevant for redistribution outcomes only if fair-minded voters are pivotal. Pivotality, in turn, depends on the structure...
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Dynamic Field Experiments in Development Economics: Risk Valuation in Morocco, Kenya, and Peru
Lybbert, Travis J.; Galarza, Francisco B.; McPeak, John G. - In: Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 39 (2010) 2
experiments in Morocco, Peru, and Kenya. …
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