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Improving donor support for urban poverty reduction
Banks, Nicola - 2011
The growing urbanization of poverty poses a significant challenge to governments and donors alike, particularly in Asia, which houses 60 per cent of the world's slum dwellers. Donors have been slow to respond to the urban challenge, however, both in their funding patterns and their priorities....
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Transfers for extreme poverty reduction: Implications for patron-client relationships in the context of Bangladesh's agricultural reformation
Scott, Lucy - 2014
agricultural reformation of rural Bangladesh, whereby the growth of the non-farm economy and increased connectivity of rural areas … the findings of primary fieldwork on the char islands of north-west Bangladesh which examined the processes resulting from … in rural Bangladesh. Because of this, the activities of the CLP have the potential to be transformative-by-stealth. Short …
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Identifying destitution through linked subsets of multidimensionally poor: An ordinal approach
Alkire, Sabina; Seth, Suman - 2015
In order to understand whether a reduction in overall poverty has improved the situations of the poorest, it is crucial to distinguish them from the moderately poor population. In this paper, we explore the mechanisms to distinguish subsets of the poor in a multidimensional counting framework....
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Gender inequality and the empowerment of women in rural Viet Nam
Newman, Carol - 2015
This paper examines gender inequality and female empowerment in rural Viet Nam. Using an extensive panel dataset on 2,181 households, we examine how the welfare of women living in rural areas has evolved during a period of dramatic rural transformation, 2008 - 14. We find that while the economic...
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Does migration affect education of girls and young women in Tajikistan?
Gatskova, Kseniia; Ivlevs, Artjoms; Dietz, Barbara - 2017
We study how migration affects education of girls in Tajikistan - the poorest post-Soviet state and one of the most remittance-dependent economies in the world. Using data from a three-wave household panel survey conducted in 2007, 2009, and 2011, we find that the effect of migration on girls'...
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Multiple pathways to gender-sensitive budget support in the education sector: Analysing the effectiveness of sex-disaggregated indicators in performance assessment frameworks and g...
Holvoet, Nathalie; Inberg, Liesbeth - 2013
In order to correct for the initial gender blindness of the Paris Declaration and related aid modalities as general and sector budget support, it has been proposed to integrate a gender dimension into budget support entry points. This paper studies the effectiveness of (joint) gender working...
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Liberia's gender-sensitive police reform. Starting from scratch? Improving representation and responsiveness
Bacon, Laura - 2013
After its 14-year civil war, Liberia worked with multiple donors and partners to restore security. This paper explores the Liberia National Police's innovative efforts to create a more gender-sensitive police service and describes the international and domestic support it received in doing so....
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Does foreign aid in education foster gender equality in developing countries?
Maiga, Eugenie W. H. - 2014
This paper examines the impact of foreign aid on gender equality in education outcomes in developing countries. Heterogeneity effects by type of aid received and by type of recipients are investigated using system GMM methods. The results indicate that aggregate aid disbursements to the...
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Non-traditional aid and gender equity: Evidence from million dollar donations
Osili, Una Okonkwo - 2013
This paper investigates the role of non-traditional aid in meeting global challenges in improving gender equality and gender-related socioeconomic needs in the twenty-first century. We define non-traditional aid as private donations from individuals, foundations, and corporations and use a newly...
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The economics of marriage in North Africa
Assaad, Ragui; Krafft, Caroline - 2014
Marriage is the single most important economic transaction and social transition in the lives of young people. Yet little is known about the economics of marriage in much of the developing world. This paper examines the economics of marriage in North Africa, where asymmetric rights in marriage...
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