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Women's worldwide education-employment connection : a multilevel analysis of the moderating impact of economic, political, and cultural 6556 contexts

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India Development Update, May 2017 : Unlocking Women's Potential

World Bank - 2017

and accelerate India's GDP growth and broader social development. Policies that promote job creation in women …India has among the lowest female labor force participation rates (LFPRs) in the world. In particular, low female LFPR … is a drag on Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth and an obstacle towards reaching a higher growth path. Women are also an …

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Doing what comes naturally? : Women and environment in development

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AFCW3 Economic Update, Fall 2018 : Disrupting the Gender Divide in Mali, Chad, Niger and Guinea

World Bank Group - 2018

Mali, Chad, Niger and Guinea have some of the lowest rates of secondary school completion in the world for girls. They also have some of the highest rates of child marriage and early childbearing. While some other countries in West and Central Africa are making rapid progress toward better...

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Economic Impacts of Gender Inequality in Niger

World Bank Group - 2019

economic gains would be generated by enabling women to have the same earnings as men and reducing fertility and thereby … investments to raise women's participation in the labor force and their productivity at work. While the estimates of the gains …

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The Contribution of Female Health to Economic Development

Bloom, David E. - 2015

We analyze the economic consequences for less developed countries of investing in female health. In so doing we introduce a novel micro-founded dynamic general equilibrium framework in which parents trade off the number of children against investments in their education and in which we allow for...

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