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sex in order to analyze the gender of debt and its interplay with caste and poverty, based on descriptive statistics and … women's behavior is constrained by family affiliation, poverty level and caste, all of which affects men much less. Last, in …, likely to strengthen the association between debt and poverty for women, and in particular to exacerbate female …
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The study assesses the role of mobile money innovations on income inequality and gender inclusion in 42 Sub …. First, income inequality unconditionally reduces the involvement of women in business and politics. Second, mobile money … innovations interact with income inequality to have a positive impact on women in business and politics. Third, net effects from …
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Despite significant improvement in female schooling over the last two decades, only a small proportion of women in … regression results show that even after accounting for human capital endowments, women are systematically less likely to … participate in paid work than men. Oaxaca decomposition of the gender gap confirms that most of it (i.e. 95%) is unexplained by …
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There has been a phenomenal global increase in the proportion of women in politics in the last two decades, but there … economic activity in constituencies that elect women and no evidence of negative spillovers to neighbouring male …-led constituencies, consistent with net growth. Probing mechanisms, we find that women legislators are less likely to be criminal and …
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household head gender and household area (rural and urban households). Results indicate that policies aiming to improve border …
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measurement of poverty. For the estimation of intrahousehold distribution of resources the study relies on collective Engel curves …. For the poverty analysis, we propose a fuzzy intrahousehold index which is less sensitive to small changes around the … poverty line compared to standard FGT indices and produce more reliable results. This provides an interesting approach to …
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The present study examines the relevance of globalization in lifelong gender inclusive education for structural … moments (GMM) is employed to assess the problem statement within the remit of interactive regressions. Gender inclusive … lifelong learning is measured as gender inclusive education acquired during the three levels of education, notably: primary …
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This study investigates how enhancing information and communication technology (ICT) affects female economic participation in sub-Saharan African nations. Three female economic participation indicators are used, namely female labor force participation, female unemployment and female employment...
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This study investigates how ICT affects gender economic inclusion via gender parity education channels. We examine the …
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The study has investigated the comparative importance of financial access in promoting gender inclusion in African … countries. Gender inclusion is proxied by the female labour participation rate while financial channels include: financial … stable countries enjoy better levels of "financial access"-induced gender inclusion compared to respectively, low income …
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