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employment and earnings as a linkage between growth and poverty reduction, especially in low income countries. With the objective … of providing inputs into the policy discussion on how to enhance poverty reduction through increased employment and …
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. However, women with past family migration experience are significantly more likely to engage in self-employment and less …
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Thailand has made good progress in closing gender gaps in various dimensions, especially human capital development. However, the progress, though obvious, has not done much to get rid of the main deterrents discouraging Thai women from participating more actively in the labor market. Thailand's...
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Today, many more girls are going to school and living longer, healthier lives than 30 or even 10 years ago. That was the good news in our flagship 2012 World Development Report on gender. But this has not translated into broader gains. Too many women still lack basic freedoms and opportunities...
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profound effect on employment patterns for women, especially among those who have not attained university education. Family …-confidence and social respectability. Higher female employment is instrumental in building capacity for economic growth and poverty … reduction. Higher levels of female employment allow government investments in education to be used more efficiently as women use …
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"Tax expenditures, in the form of tax provisions, are government expenditures. They are conceptually and functionally distinct from those tax provisions whose purpose is to raise revenue. Tax expenditure programs are comparable to entitlement programs. Therefore, tax expenditures must be...
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