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Evaluating CCTs from A Gender Perspective: the Impact of Chile Solidario on Women’s Employment Prospect
Scarlato, Margherita; d'Agostino, Giorgio; Capparucci, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110874
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The impact of economic policy and structural change on gender employment inequality in Latin America, 1990-2010
Seguino, Stephanie; Braunstein, Elissa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112006
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The great equalizer?: Globalization effects on gender equality in Latin America and the Caribbean
Seguino, Stephanie - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005790313
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Impact of Land Certification on Land Rental Market Participation in Tigray Region, Northern Ethiopia
Holden, Stein T.; Deininger, Klaus; Ghebru, Hosaena - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
There is a renewed interest in whether land reforms can contribute to market development in Africa and whether land reforms can be pro-poor. This paper uses unique household panel data from Tigray region in Ethiopia to assess the impact of the 1998 low-cost land registration and certification...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836589
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Poverty of Ethnic Minorities in the Poorest Areas of Vietnam
Nguyen Viet, Cuong - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper examines the poverty and inequality pattern, income and characteristics of households in the Program 135-II communes – the poorest areas in Vietnam. The poverty incidence decreased from 57.5 percent to 49.2 percent during the period 2007-2012. Although the poverty incidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258845
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The paths of coffee: A brief economic history of coffee in Colombia
Estrada, Fernando - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper develops a brief history of coffee in Colombia identifying the processes of change in the geography and populations. From the eighteenth to the twentieth century, coffee cultivation represented the basis of household income. Changes in rural and urban culture of the nineteenth century...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323655
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The Socio-Economic and Demographic Determinants of Women Work Participation in Pakistan: Evidence from Bahawalpur District
Faridi, Muhammad Zahir; Chaudhry, Imran Sharif; Anwar, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The analysis of labour market participation is useful for formulating employment and human resource development policies. Females form almost more than half of the total population in Pakistan play a very important role in the country. The present study endeavors to estimate the various factors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008595623
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The role of household income and public provision of social services in satisfaction of basic needs in Pakistan: A cross district analysis
Siddiqui, Rizwana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Is household income enough for human development or government should heed to direct provision of social services to improve capabilities of individual. The former emphasized by the World Bank and later by the UNDP. This paper tests the argument by estimating a basic need policy model for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005620132
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Structural relations among the components of household income and expenditure in Kohima, Nagaland
Ngullie, ML; Mishra, SK - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper presents our findings on the structural relationship between household income and consumption expenditure in the township of Kohima. It is based on the primary data collected from 209 households inhabiting 19 wards of the township. It is found that about 56 percent of households are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621401
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Poverty of the Ethnic Minorities in Vietnam: Situation and Challenges from the Poorest Communes
Pham Thai, Hung; Le Dang, Trung; Nguyen Viet, Cuong - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This study examines the poverty of the ethnic minorities in the poorest areas in Vietnam. We find that the ethnic minority now constitute more than a half of the poor population, though they account for around 14.5 percent of the population,. The share of the poor ethnic minorities in the total...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107608