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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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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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that face severe competition from other low-wage countries reduces their bargaining power and inhibits closure of gender … 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 …
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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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We analyze the role of state-ownership in the banking sector from the perspective of competition. Considering both the … charge and/or offer relatively customer friendly interest rates? And (iii) is competition intensified by the conduct and …
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applications were perceived as an important force to modify competition in bank markets. …
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competition, using a mixture of theoretical arguments and empirical evidence. We discuss two hypothesis and survey empirical … the intensity of competition in B2C eCommerce. …
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This paper shows that altruism may be beneficial in bargaining when there is competition for bargaining partners. In a …
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