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Increasing job opportunities and decent work for women are essential for advancing economic and social development in countries, because many women continue to experience gender inequalities at work. An analysis of strategies to counter gender discrimination and promote equality between men and...
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To promote evidence-based policy making, the Asian Development Bank partnered with Innovations for Poverty Action and the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab in 2012 to deliver a 3-day conference on impact evaluation and public policy in Bangkok. Over 200 scholars, practitioners and policy...
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Mongolia experienced a challenging transition from socialist economy to market economy from 1990 onwards. Its commercial insurance market is still at its infancy, with gross written premiums in 2013 amounting to only 0.54% of gross domestic production. ADB undertook this technical assistance...
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The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has been one of the few active partners for microfinance development in the … Philippines. It has contributed to the growth of formal microfinance activities, including expanding the outreach of diversified …
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"This paper evaluates the outreach and impact of two microfinance "village bank" programs that target the poor in … selection. Results demonstrate that microfinance loans positively affect many measures of household welfare for the wealthy …
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