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Two major approaches on how to address women's land security can be identified: reforming the formal legal sector, and … embracing informal community practices. However, through research conducted among Kenya's agricultural communities, the authors … control and ultimately prevent women from obtaining land, leaving all of these systems inadequate in ensuring women's access …
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of their unassisted competitors. This study tests this possibility using a two-stage randomized experiment in Kenya. The …
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of occupational segregation, the program had a surprising effect. For women who at baseline were implicitly biased … against associating women with professional attributes, the likelihood that the program induced switching into the information … and communications technology sector was more than three times as large than that of unbiased women. These results suggest …
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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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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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