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"This paper examines the relationship between international migration and source country fertility. The impact of … international migration on source country fertility may have a number of causes, including a transfer of destination countries …' fertility norms and an incentive to acquire more education. It provides provide a rigorous test of the diffusion on of fertility …
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developing countries. Poor women and men are more afflicted with RH problems and often lack access to minimal RH care even when …
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serious consequences for women's health and well-being, ranging from fatal outcomes, such as homicide, suicide, and AIDS … achieved by empowering women and reducing gender disparities, and by changing norms and attitudes which foster violence …
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pronounced, especially for women. Continued pronounced impacts on women's employment are partly driven by a slow recovery of … sectors that predominantly employ women. Many new jobs created during the pandemic are informal. Among the new entrants into … the labor force, women were more likely than men to land in informality. Policy priorities include gender neutral reforms …
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critical to understand the structural forces that have promoted recent positive social outcomes. This report explores how women …
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women to compete in key markets: land, labor, agriculture, finance and the private sector. Work and family: Latin American … and the Caribbean women in search of a new balance offer new analysis of how household decision-making and allocation of … chapters present policy lessons organized around four themes of vital importance to women and their families: (A) access to …
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"Silva investigates the role played by domestic importers and foreign exporters in improving preferential access to the domestic market. To this end, the framework he uses extends the protection for sale analysis to explicitly model the role of domestic importers and foreign exporters in...
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Globalisation is already a powerful force for poverty reduction as societies and economies around the world are becoming more integrated. Although this international integration presents considerable opportunities for developing countries, it also contains significant risks. Associated with...
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