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This paper uses data from the Nepal Living Standards Survey 2 (2003/2004) to find evidence to whether children are less likely to work and more likely to attend school in a household where the mother has a say in the intra-family decision-making, than in one where the father holds all the power....
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I investigate the relationship between children.s endowment and parental investment using a rich dataset on a cohort of children from Ethiopia, who were surveyed at ages eight, twelve and fifteen. Children.s endowment is measured by scores on tests of cog
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part through policies geared at both growth and equity, such as land reform and compulsory schooling. The state …
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The study focuses on the period 2004.09 during which Egypt experienced food crisis. The political economy context on …
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Agriculture is a main contributor to pro-poor growth in Africa, but gender inequalities in the sector hold back … agricultural growth and affect household welfare negatively. The sector has been characterized by a lack of gender …
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examines the extent to which World Bank investments address unpaid care work. The paper conducts an in-depth gender analysis of …
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This paper examines the impact of foreign aid on gender equality in education outcomes in developing countries …
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The Fourth World Conference on Women, held in Beijing in 1995, was critical in making gender equality a development … goal and adopted gender-mainstreaming as its primary mechanism to achieve this. Effective implementation of gender …
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Researchers have linked sub-Saharan Africa.s (SSA) poor growth performance in recent decades to several factors, including geography, institutions, and low returns to investment. This literature has not yet integrated the research that identifies linkage
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