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Global Experiences on Expanding Services to the Urban Poor

World Bank Group - 2009

In 2006-07, the Water and Sanitation Program-South Asia (WSP-SA) initiated a research toidentify barriers to service delivery for the urban poor. The research included a review ofvarious initiatives from across the globe that have resulted in improved service delivery for theurban poor and...

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Livable Cities for the 21st Century : The Post Habitat II Agenda for the World Bank

Wolfensohn, James D. - 1997

Habitat II, the second United Nations conference on human settlements, also known as the "City Summit," concluded its work on June 14, 1996, in Istanbul. Habitat II indelibly marked the increasingly urban nature of the world and the urgency, extent, and increasing size of problems facing people...

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Business Practices in Small Firms in Developing Countries

McKenzie, David - 2015

in Bangladesh, Chile, Ghana, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, and Sri Lanka. This paper shows that variation in business practices …

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Benefit Sharing in REDD+

World Bank - 2011

International policies to reduce carbon emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD+) envisage the creation of financial incentive mechanisms that reward forest protection efforts and adequately compensate those actors that face new costs. In order for REDD+ to achieve these objectives,...

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Does Cash for School Influence Young Women's Behavior in the Longer Term? Evidence from Pakistan

Alam, Andaleeb - 2011

The Punjab Female School Stipend Program, a female-targeted conditional cash transfer program in Pakistan, was implemented in response to gender gaps in education. An early evaluation of the program shows that the enrollment of eligible girls in middle-school increased in the short term by...

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On the Malleability of Implicit Attitudes Towards Women Empowerment : Evidence from Tunisia

Nillesen, Eleonora E. - 2019

attitudes using a randomized field experiment and quasi-experimental data from Tunisia. Women that appear most conservative …

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Women at the Top in Developing Countries : Evidence from Firm-Level Data

Sekkat, Khalid - 2015

This paper uses worldwide firm-level data to scrutinize the governance factors that favor gender diversity in leadership positions. Our results reveal that the gender of the dominant shareholder is key. The chief executive of firms with a female dominant shareholder has a significantly higher...

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Is Women's Ownership of Land a Panacea in Developing Countries? Evidence from Land-Owning Farm Households in Malawi

Bhaumik, Sumon K. - 2014

, on its own, increase welfare, if women do not have access to complementary resources that are needed to generate income …

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The Contribution of Female Health to Economic Development

Bloom, David E. - 2015

We analyze the economic consequences for less developed countries of investing in female health. In so doing we introduce a novel micro-founded dynamic general equilibrium framework in which parents trade off the number of children against investments in their education and in which we allow for...

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Measuring Women's Empowerment in Rwanda

Musonera, Abdou - 2016

This study examines the determinants of women's empowerment in Rwanda using data obtained from DHS 2010. A regression … analysis is used to investigate the association between women's empowerment and its covariates. The study also uses a … association with women's empowerment while other variables such as residence and the age at first marriage were negatively …

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