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Exploring the Role of Public Expenditure in Advancing Female Economic Empowerment and Gender Equality
Britt, Charla - 2024
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015058659
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Women in Fintech: As Leaders and Users
Khera, Purva - 2022
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015060259
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Fintech, Female Employment, and Gender Inequality
Loko, Boileau - 2022
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015060381
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Will Working from Home Stick in Developing Economies?
Conesa Martinez, Marina - 2023
In developing economies, a shift to working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic varies substantially. An increase in teleworking days per week ranges from 0.7 to 17.6 percentage points across 10 developing countries covered by an online survey to about 500 respondents per country. An...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015059410
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The Impact of the IMF's COVID-19 Support to Developing and Emerging Economies
Chun, Sumin - 2022
We construct a high-frequency dataset that combines information on all IMF lending and proxies of monthly economic activity during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic (2020-21). Using this novel dataset and standard econometric techniques we find a positive and significant marginal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015059885
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How much should I hold? : reserve adequacy in emerging markets and small islands
Mwase, Nkunde - 2012
This paper investigates the drivers of reserves in emerging markets (EMs) and small island (SIs) and develops an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009621657
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Small Island States in the Pacific : the Tyranny of Distance
Becker, Chris - 2012
This paper seeks to document key characteristics of small island states in the Pacific. It restricts itself to a … development indicators. We show that small island states in the Pacific are different from countries in other regional groupings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009622524
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Waiting for Godot? The Case for Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in Small Island States
Cevik, Serhan - 2022
small island states in the Caribbean and elsewhere. This paper contributes to the debate by analyzing different options to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015060120
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Gender and Its Relevance to Macroeconomic Policy : A Survey
Stotsky, Janet Gale - 2006
Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. GENDER DIFFERENCES IN BEHAVIOR AND MACROECONOMIC OUTCOMES -- III. GENDER INEQUALITIES AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: A SIMULTANEOUS RELATIONSHIP -- IV. GENDER INEQUALITIES IN LABOR AND FINANCIAL MARKETS -- V. GENDER, ECONOMIC INSTABILITY, AND ADJUSTMENT -- VI....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012691049
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Why are Women Working So Much More in Canada? An International Perspective.
Tsounta, Evridiki - 2006
Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. LITERATURE -- III. THE CANADIAN TAX AND BENEFIT SYSTEM IN THE 1990S -- IV. ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS -- V. RESULTS -- VI. CONCLUSION AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS -- REFERENCES.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012691066