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"Professional skills are scarce in Mozambique, even by the standards of low-income countries. The solution, however, is not necessarily to create more Mozambican training institutions but to address market-specific problems. Where skills are already the binding constraint (for example, in...
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"This paper examines the ways in which lower-income households obtain basic financial services in urban communities in Mexico and the United States. And it discusses the efforts that private sector and government organizations are making to lower the cost or improve the quality of those...
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Discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people is widespread and LGBTI … development challenge; not only because discrimination is inherently unjust, but also because "there are substantial costs …
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small firms. Measures to boost the productivity of micro and small firms in general will both help overall economic growth …
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productivity of small informal firms. Using data from firm surveys, national household surveys, and qualitative data from focus … groups, the study conducts a gender analysis of formality and productivity in six different sectors in Bolivia. The findings … productivity and scale of women-owned businesses. Two general priorities emerge: promoting women's access to productive assets to …
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