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Within the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the gender equality in education is considered one of … narrowing down the gender gap in education for the primary, secondary, and tertiary levels. More specifically, and among many … other factors, the study focuses on the response of gender gap in education to economic growth, information communication …
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Brazil is frequently portrayed as exhibiting persistent and structural economic inequality that is rooted in the early colonial experience, and is believed to undermine development in the long run. I construct original measures of agricultural inequality for 1905 in what is today Brazil’s...
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This paper examines the effects of Chile Solidario programme on labour market outcomes from a gender perspective. Chile … to provide poor families with auxiliary social services, including support for employment. We compare the gender impact …
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The main purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of economic policy and structural change on gender inequality … three different methodologies to explore this question: 1) statistical description of changes in a range of gender … well as the determinants of gender inequality in these variables. …
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This paper assesses the impact of 30 years of globalization on gender equity in well-being in Latin America and the … equalizer for gender anymore than it has been shown to be by class. The results here indicate that growth exhibits a negative …
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The majority of the developing economies worldwide use foreign capitals inflow so as to achieve economic growth. The host countries proceed to economic and political transformations so as to improve their attractiveness and to become top foreign direct investment destinations. In addition, the...
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This study examines the impact of process and product innovation on employment growth across four Latin American countries (Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, and Uruguay) using micro data from innovation surveys. Specifically, we relate employment growth to process innovations and to the growth of...
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Major pharmaceutical companies such as Smith Kline Beecham, Merck, Glaxo and Lilly, and a score of smaller ones, are developing profitable business opportunities in the world's forest while preserving biodiversity and producing incentives for leaving the forests intact. This case study covers...
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Rural economy, that is, the integrated system of non-homogeneous activities as performed out of urban areas, has very often been confused, in the development literature, with agricultural economy, which aims at the increase of agricultural and zootechnic production. The two terms imply distinct,...
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Abstract This paper is concerned with exploring some of the gender implications of certain long term trends which have … extent if any, they are in turn affected by gender. The paper concentrates on the following trends: - unprecedented growth of …
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