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Women are disadvantaged relative to men, according to key economic, social, and political measures of equality, but in … arbitrary discrimination against women. …
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This paper discusses connections between female economic empowerment and government spending. It is an abbreviated overview for non-gender-experts on how fiscal expenditure may support female economic empowerment as an interim step toward advancing gender equality. From this perspective, it...
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digital financial inclusion, its impact on gender gaps varies across countries. Moreover, women leaders in the fintech … industry, although growing, remain scarce. This paper explores the interaction between 'women' and 'fintech' by examining: (i …) the role of women leaders on firm-level performance in the fintech industry; and (ii) the determinants of gender gaps in …
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Fintech, which delivers financial services digitally, promises to promote financial inclusion and close the gender gap. Using a novel fintech dataset for 114 economies worldwide, this paper shows that fintech adoption significantly improves female employment and reduces gender inequality, the...
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that reducing gender inequality and improving the status of women may contribute to higher rates of economic growth and … greater macroeconomic stability. Women's relative lack of opportunities in developing countries inhibits economic growth … labor and financial markets is critical to enabling women to take full advantage of improved macroeconomic conditions …
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This paper examines the concept of gender-responsive government budgeting, promoted in recent years by women …
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The impact of higher petroleum prices on the aggregate price level, real growth, and income distribution is appraised within a multisector computable general equilibrium (CGE) model. A reduction in the government subsidy raises petroleum prices and production costs throughout the economy....
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The objective of this paper is to present some early experiences of poverty and social impact analysis (PSIA) from the PRGF-supported programs in the African Department. The paper illustrates that many staff country reports have taken a first step toward PSIA by making more explicit the links...
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This paper uses household survey data to estimate the incidence of tax and spending programs in Honduras. Any such exercise is fraught with difficulty, so our simplifying assumptions are carefully explained. Rather than look at tax and spending completely independently, we evaluate net incidence...
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We examine the impact of digitalization on people's perceptions of women as political leaders in 34 Sub-Saharan African … equality in political leadership. However, the intensive margin of usage does not appear to be significant. Furthermore, women …
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