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Boosting women’s relative control of income and other economic resources has so many consequences that positively enhance both gender equality and development that female economic empowerment may be close to being a “magic potion.†[Paper presented at the 100th Annual Meeting of...
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. Routine household health surveys do help us understand how iniquitous access to health care can be, but offer limited … opportunities for a gender analysis along the crosscutting axes of caste, class, age and life stage. Such an exercise is more …
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The study examines the intention to work abroad based on a representative sample of young Singaporeans residing in the city-state. Two thousand and thirteen Singaporeans between the age of 19 to 30 years took part in the research. [Working paper No. 19].
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Karnataka is the single largest producer of silk in the country.As an income generation activity,sericulture has been seen as part of anti-poverty efforts of both the state and central governments. However, an important by-product of sericulture is the significant number of people who become...
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A qualitative study was conducted in the six states of Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand and Haryana to understand the socio-economic, cultural and demographic features accelatrating Infant Mortality rate and Maternal Mortality Rate.
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This paper provides an explanation for the observed persistence in income inequality across households in terms limited …
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aggravates concerns over the impact of globalization on the already rising inter-region income inequality in China. This paper … discusses China’s globalization process and estimates an income generating function, incorporating trade and FDI variables. It … then applies the newly developed shapley value decomposition technique to quantify the contributions of globalization …
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The paper studies the relation between globalization, inequality and marginalization, within and across nations. It … reviews the existing evidence on globalization and global inequality and argues, using a simple theoretical model, that the … two are inter-connected. It discusses policy alternative policies to counter extreme poverty and inequality. The paper …
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trends in world income inequality, it examines first the ‘growth’ conduit through which globalization affects poverty …The paper offers a critical literature review of the debate surrounding the globalization- poverty nexus, focusing on … channels and linkages through which globalization affects the poor. After introducing four different concepts used to measure …
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lens uses cross-country comparisons and aggregate time series data; the micro lens uses household-level data combined with … and micro approaches cast doubt on some widely heard generalizations from both sides of the globalization debate …
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