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Paid maternity leave and female employment : evidence using firm-level survey data for developing countries
Amin, Mohammed; Islam, Asif - 2019
The relationship between the length of paid maternity leave and the proportion of female workers in the private sector is explored using firm-level survey data for 66 mostly developing countries. The paper finds a large, positive, and statistically significant relationship between the two....
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The women's devlopment program in Rajasthan : a case study in group formation for women's development
Das, Maitreyi - 1992
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000138626
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Social gains from female education : a cross-national study
Subbarao, Kalanidhi; Raney, Laura - 1992
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000138754
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Does paternity leave matter for female employment in developing economies? : evidence from firm data
Amin, Mohammed; Islam, Asif; Sakhonchik, Alena - 2016
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Does gender equality in labor participation bring real equality? : evidence from developed and developing countries
Alfani, Federica; Clementi, Fabio; Fabiani, Michele; … - Weltbankgruppe - 2021
Drawing on various macro- and micro-data sources, the authors present robust evidence of an inverted U-shaped relationship between female labor force participation and inequality. Overall, female labor force participation is found to have a strong and significant dis-equalizing impact in at...
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Access to water, women’s work and child outcomes
Koolwal, Gayatri; Van de Walle, Dominique - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008661773
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Delivering the Millennium Development Goals to Reduce Maternal and Child Mortality : A Systematic Review of Impact Evaluation Evidence
Independent Evaluation Group - 2016
beyond World Bank experience. It is intended to be used a reference for practitioners in the Bank and elsewhere with an …
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The World Bank Group and the global food crisis : an evaluation of the World Bank Group response
World Bank - 2014 - Online-Ausg.
.25 a day, equivalent to 22.4 percent of the developing world population. In addition, the Food and Agriculture Organization … people and the undernourished increased by 63 million in 2008.The World Bank organized rapidly for short-term support in the … for agricultural market participants. This evaluation assesses the effectiveness of the World Bank Group response in …
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