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Comparison between Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and East Asia indicates that gender inequality in education and employment … reducing gender-based asset inequality in SSA is an important development goal. This report documents the structural role of … case that reducing gender inequality would increase growth, efficiency, and welfare. The authors make key recommendations …
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A growing body of literature indicates that reducing gender inequalities and increasing women's access to productive … resources greatly improves both welfare and economic productivity. Despite recent gains in some areas, significant gender …. This report examines key gender inequalities and gender-based differences in economic activities, opportunities, and …
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legacy delude observers into believing that there is gender equality in the region? While budgets shrink, how can gender be … integrated into country department work programs? To answer these and other pressing questions regarding the gender issue, the … address the lack of Bank knowledge of gender issues in the Eastern Europe and Central Asia Region. The papers from the …
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or supports gender discrimination, but must actively protect and guard the interests of both men and women. This paper … context in some of these countries, and examines the effectiveness of these laws in challenging gender relationships. …
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This paper proposes a program for judicial reform which specifically addresses the main factors affecting the quality of court services, its monopolistic nature and the resultant inefficiency. The reform program also addresses the economic and legal causes at the root of an inefficient and...
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A number of researchers have recently proposed a variety of different `vulnerability'measures designed to capture the welfare consequences of risk for poor households, and also proposed a variety of different approaches to estimating these various measures of household vulnerability. However,...
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This paper brings together some of the empirical work conducted by IFPRI researchers which investigates linkages among the degree of consumption insurance, households'vulnerability to poverty, and household use of formal and informal coping mechanisms using the same empirical approach in five...
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This paper investigates the hypothesis that children work because their income contribution is necessary for the household to meet subsistence expenditures. It uses the fact that a testable implication of this hypothesis is that the wage elasticity of child labor supply is negative. Previous...
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This paper surveys 11 international comparative studies of poverty, income distribution, and the elderly. Although it focuses on OECD economies, some 44 countries are covered. The paper addresses a series of questions. What level are the incomes of the elderly relative to the population as a...
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