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The study investigates disparities in social development in 144 countries worldwide. In the paper we aim to investigate cross-country differences in social development level in year 2011, as well as to estimate inequalities on the field. Secondly, we assess relative social development level...
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The ultimate objective of the present paper is to empirically investigate the effectiveness of competition policy in developed and developing countries. Although its importance is continuously increasing, the effectiveness of competition policy still seems to lack the attention that it would...
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Within the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the gender equality in education is considered one of the most challenging goals for most developing economies. Using Panel Least Square with Regional Dummies (LSDV) for a sample of Developing countries over the period 1990 to 2014,...
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When comparing the New Economy and the time before the Great Depression there are two obvious analogies. In the 1920s as in the 1990s there was an investment boom triggered through the use of new technologies and rapid technological development. In the 1920s, these were the electricity and the...
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the same quantity of farm products. Historically, women have been the managers of natural resources as they are dependent … rendered them scarce. The rural women collect over 28% of all energy consumed in India in the form of firewood. Most of the 140 …-scale migration to urban areas. Women are being forced to take up more drudgerous jobs as a source of livelihood as most of the …
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to underline the positive corollary existing between the targeting of women by microfinance programs, on the one hand …
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migrant women: gender and migrant condition. Our findings suggest that migrant women do face this double negative disadvantage …
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Malaysian women have continued to play an increasingly important role in the national development of the country … education among Muslim women. A total of 189 respondents were interviewed from selected kampongs in the district of Papar, Sabah …
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among women. This study explores that issue using state-level gonorrhea rates among women for 1975-95. The rationale is that … Medicaid funding for abortion fail to promote safe sex behavior among women. …
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Women's position in the labour market is quite vulnerable and they face widespread discrimination, especially in the … feminisation of workforce. This paper focuses on this changing position of women in the informal manufacturing sector in India over … the 1989-2000 period. The share of women in total employment is declining in the sectors traditionally labeled for women …
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