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This paper analyzes the relationship between parents’ time devoted to housework and the time devoted to housework by … gender differences, between parents and children’s housework time, which indicates that the more time parents devote to … housework the more time their children devote to housework. While in Germany both fathers and mothers’ housework is positively …
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model specifications. One of the major components of this increase appear to be an increase in housework that is at least …
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1975 to 2004, we analyze the response of single women's housework, labor supply, and other time to variation in tax and … participating in the labor force increases, market work increases and housework decreases, with the decrease in housework accounting … expenditures on market goods likely to substitute for housework increase in response to a greater incentive to join the labor force …
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Southern Sudan - the ten southern provinces of Sudan - has attained autonomy and may soon achieve total independence from Sudan. Yet decades of civil war not only prevented development but destroyed the infrastructure left over from the colonial period. While Southern Sudan is fortunate to have...
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This paper examines the impact of climatic change on the level of total agricultural production of Sub-Sahara Africa … (SSA) and non-Sub-Sahara Africa (NSSA) developing countries. In doing so it uses a new cross-country panel climatic dataset …
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show that ambitious coefficients in the market access pillar remain the best outcome for Africa. Even what might seem to be … dampens the expected positive outcomes for agriculture negotiations in favour of Africa but could also actually wipe out such …
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It is widely accepted that investment is essential for the long-term economic growth of developing countries. There is some evidence that Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in developing countries provides spill-over benefits through technology and skills transfer. Understanding the determinants of...
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This article deals with the impact of the HIV/AIDS pandemic on poverty and education in Africa. It considers the scale …
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Empirical relationships between the rates of growth and total factor productivity growth, physical input accumulation, as well as institutional and agro-ecological change is evaluated using an international panel data set on 26 African countries and covering the period 1970-2000. The analysis...
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The New Nationalism in Africa and elsewhere shows remarkable differences both in its roots and its impact, compared …
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