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nevertheless adopted a litany of utopian international goals for universal school enrollment and gender parity in education based … of these, the Millennium Development Goals, call for universal primary schooling and full gender parity by 2015. This … work quantifies how long it has taken countries rich and poor to make the transition towards high enrollments and gender …
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To what extent has government education spending in Pakistan been effective in reducing gender gaps in enrollments? To … gender disparity in access to public subsidy is higher at tertiary level and lowest at primary level, which also reflects …
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effects on growth and well- being, and has done little to promote greater gender equality. This paper argues that the example … growth was rapid, it was not enough to produce greater gender equality. A concentration of women in mobile export industries … that face severe competition from other low-wage countries reduces their bargaining power and inhibits closure of gender …
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Microfinance—both credit and savings—has potential to improve the well- being of poor women in developing countries. This paper explores practical ways to achieve that potential. Based on lessons from informal saving mechanisms that women already use, the paper proposes two savings services...
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We evaluate the gender wage gap and the unexplained gender wage differential for workers 15-29 year old during the … endogeneity of education and we evaluate gender discrimination by studying the entire distribution of the unexplained wage gap as …
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Pakistan is severely disadvantaged by its failure to achieve higher levels of human development. Low enrolment thirty years ago is reflected in the lower educational level of today’s labor force, lower productivity and lower adaptation of technology. Even today less than half of the school-age...
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Focused on the case of China’s financial development, the present discursive essay sets out to argue that if the … particular context of China’s economic development goals and concludes that although the Chinese financial system is not …. Furthermore, in order to reconcile China’s financial efficiency-growth apparent paradox, the essay supports the view that …
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Participation in Infrastructure in China, Laws and Regulations for Private Participation in Infrastructure in China, Financing … Private Infrastructure Projects in China, Road Issues and Recommendations, Water Issues and Recommendations, Power Generation … suitable projects. The report compares China’s experiences with those of developing and industrial countries and offers …
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The book encapsulates the ways and means of doing business with China, and the opportunities out there. It reveals how … China has transformed itself for the investors by creating a friendly environment; but,nevertheless, cultural and social … aspects must not be forgotten while dealing with them. The book is divided into four parts. These are: • The China Triangle …
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This paper estimates the effects of trade integration between China and Mercosur on employment. The case of Argentina … labor demand elasticities in order to estimate the effects of trade with China on the employment rate. According to this …, trade with China did not have a significant effect on industrial employment, even in a period of swift trade liberalization …
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