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development policies have placed much emphasis on promoting gender equality. From a perspective of gender equality, women in … political positions including the national assembly. With the new law on gender equality passed in November 2006, more policy … efforts are called for in achieving gender equality in both public and private spheres of people's lives. In this context, it …
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men and women's perception of factors that are perceived to shape their economic mobility, access to labor markets, and … middle class overall, men and women will report a lack of education and appropriate skills as barriers to both employment and … entrepreneurship opportunities. Economic mobility, supported by a thriving and open labor market, targeted policies, and an enabling …
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Mobile phones have become the main communication tool and helped countless people to improve their lives in many countries. The use of mobile phones has grown exponentially over the past 30 years from 11 million subscriptions in 1990 to 8.6 billion in 2021.1 Ninety-five percent of the world's...
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to stall in the mid-2000s. The Urban Mobility Initiative for the Western Balkans region was launched by the World Bank … Group to conduct a high-level, comprehensive diagnostic assessment of urban mobility in the 10 selected cities in the WeBa … region. The overarching aim of the assessment is to identify interventions for urban mobility-related challenges and …
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expectations of future employment and induce changes in household structure that can exert an independent effect on the private … greater for girls, yielding a very substantial reduction in gender inequalities in access to education. Significantly, though …
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"Adams uses a large, nationally representative household survey to analyze the impact of internal remittances (from … included in household income, and by 19.8 percent when international remittances are included in such income. This is true … because households in the lowest decile group receive a very large share of their total household income (expenditure) from …
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regularly monitor household welfare. The first survey was conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic, from June 20 to July 16, 2020 … May 29 to June 28, 2023. 1 The monitoring data offers insights into the effects of economic shocks on household well …
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projected increases as the country transitions to a higher middle-income status. Using the latest household survey available, it …
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This report presents the evaluation results of the pilot intervention, which aimed to enhance the socioeconomic inclusion of marginalized Roma households in Bulgaria, Romania, and Slovakia. The pilot targeted households in extreme poverty receiving means-tested social assistance with a focus on...
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important household characteristics for predicting consumption are the number of children, the number of family members, and the …
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