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Does gender equality in labor participation bring real equality? : evidence from developed and developing countries
Alfani, Federica; Clementi, Fabio; Fabiani, Michele; … - Weltbankgruppe - 2021
Drawing on various macro- and micro-data sources, the authors present robust evidence of an inverted U-shaped relationship between female labor force participation and inequality. Overall, female labor force participation is found to have a strong and significant dis-equalizing impact in at...
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The World Bank and international commercial banks : partners for development ; remarks to the International Monetary Conference
Clausen, Alden W. - 1982
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Mind, society, and behavior
Weltbankgruppe - 2015
year’s World Development Report argues that a more realistic account of decision-making and behavior will make development … world has made familiar. And social emotions and social norms motivate much of what they do. These insights together explain …
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Governance and the law
Weltbankgruppe - 2017
Why are carefully designed, sensible policies too often not adopted or implemented? When they are, why do they often fail to generate development outcomes such as security, growth, and equity? And why do some bad policies endure? This book addresses these fundamental questions, which are at the...
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Atlas of sustainable development goals 2017 : from world development indicators
Weltbankgruppe - 2017
measurement issues related to each of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The Atlas primarily draws on World Development … Indicators (WDI) - the World Bank's compilation of internationally comparable statistics about global development and the quality … important by experts in the World Bank's Global Practices and Cross Cutting Solution Areas. Nevertheless, The Atlas aims to …
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Global economic prospects
Weltbankgruppe - 2022
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Water, migration, and development
Zaveri, Esha D.; Russ, Jason; Khan, Amjad; Damania, Richard - Weltbank; Weltbankgruppe - 2021
Migration shapes the lives of those who move and transforms the geographies and economies of their points of departure and destinations alike. The water sector, and the availability of water itself, implicitly and explicitly shape migration flows. Ebb and Flow, Volume 1. Water, Migration, and...
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On the front lines of the fight against poverty : fragility and conflict
Corral, Paul; Irwin, Alexander; Krishnan, Nandini; … - Weltbankgruppe - 2020
, successful development strategies reduced the proportion of the world’s people living in extreme poverty from 36 to 10 percent …
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World development report 2020
Weltbankgruppe - 2020
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