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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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have the potential to positively influence the quantity and quality of women’s participation in agriculture in India …’s North Eastern Region. Women in agriculture in this part of the country, are going to get more and more employments both in … bring in miseries to the women folks. However, in the long run, women in this region are going to gain the lion’s share of …
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‘threatening’ planning for Women in Development (WID) to the more ‘confrontational’ gender planning with its aspiring goal of …The concept of women’s development has now become an integral part of the development discourses and policy initiatives …. This development has been informed by a remarkable though gradual shift in the perception about women, from the stature of …
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ability of UK women-owned firms to obtain external finance. In this paper we use an econometric approach to explore the effect … Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) UK 2004 database. Standardising for a range of individual characteristics, we find that women are around … barriers are linked negatively to the start-up decision, stronger perceptions of financial barriers among women are having a …
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Although at the beginning of the 21st century, over 95 percent of all countries in the world have granted women the … right to vote and the right to stand for election (Ballington & Karam, 2005), gender equality in terms of representation in … representation of women at the level of the smallest unit of Philippine government—the village or barangay. Data comparison—within a …
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To help prepare Liberia’s poverty reduction strategy, a CWIQ (Core Welfare Indicator Questionnaire) household survey … was conducted by the Liberia Institute of Statistics and Geo-Informational Services. This article is based on an analysis …
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support that the concentration of managerial ownership affects the firms financial policies, mainly the leverage and dividend … determines a negative and significant association among the mangers ownership concentration and dividend policy of the firms … asymmetric information will decrease and directly decrease the effectiveness of the dividend policy. Beside this the firms with …
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This research aims to test dividend signaling theory in an Indonesian capital market. Signaling theory states that … dividend policy has information content that can influence to share price. Examination of theory of signaling is related to … research phenomena in other countries indicating that by percentage there is degradation of company which is pay dividend and …
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According to the prior literature, family executives of family-controlled firms receive lower compensation than non-family executives. One of the key driving forces behind this is the existence of family members who are not involved in management, but own significant fraction of shares and...
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and women, according to the labor economics literature. Parametric models of Logit type are considered, in order to … contrast the results obtained with the gender discrimination theory. The estimation reflect a behavior of gender discrimination … discrimination no longer exists, an example of this, there is a balance between men and women in their acces to good quality jobs. …
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