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With the aim of reducing women's greater unpaid care work than men&'s and increasing women's paid employment, this … analysis of 36 World Bank employment-related projects in Malawi, Mali, Niger, and Rwanda. It concludes that the vast majority …
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to create enough good jobs. Structural transformation - the relative growth of employment in high productivity sectors … responsiveness of employment to growth. The role of development aid in this context is problematic. Across Africa more aid went to … countries with a low employment intensity of growth. The paper proposes a new approach to aid and poverty in Africa, one that …
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This paper discusses dimensions of inequality in sub-Saharan Africa and their causes. It starts with a review of the empirical evidence about inequality during the colonial period as well as the post-independence era. Then it discusses the forces that determine inequality change, focusing on...
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human capital, but they had high employment rates, and over time they closed their initial large earnings gap with other …
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This study examines the relationship between growth and employment in Nigeria to gain insights into the country … approach, complemented with econometric estimation of the country's employment intensity of growth. The findings indicate that … services sector. Employment elasticity of growth was positive and quite low, reflecting the country's poor overall employment …
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dimension of employment. By exploiting rich micro-level data on Ethiopian workers, we evaluate the effect of the Ethiopian trade … reforms on the changes and composition of employment, adopting as unit of analysis Ethiopian districts. We find that districts … more exposed to trade liberalization experienced reductions in their employment levels, especially in female employment. We …
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This paper studies the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the gendered dimensions of employment and mental health among … urban informal-sector workers in India. First, we find that men's employment declined by 84 percentage points post … did not experience any significant impact on employment post pandemic, as reported by their husbands. Second, we document …
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inequality and poverty to changes in factor endowments and changes in economic and employment structures. We also provide some …
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Various development objectives are worthy, but to my mind, one objective dominates all others: reducing the scourge of absolute economic misery in the world. In this paper, I focus on an important but relatively underemphasized approach to poverty reduction: helping the poor earn more in the...
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This paper has three primary objectives. First, it provides a broad overview of the available South African data used to examine gender in the labour market, with specific reference to the South African Revenue Services (SARS) tax data which has recently been made available. Second, the paper...
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