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The present paper sheds new light on the growth implications of gender inequalities in the Moroccan labour market. We … to relate growth to the relative employment of women and, also, suggest simulations for Morocco. Both approaches lead to … one of the rare attempts to elicit the growth potential of a reduction in the employment gap in a low-income country. …
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In this paper, we apply the first-order dominance (FOD) approach to assessing multidimensional welfare to analyse … multidimensional poverty in Zambia in 1996, 2006, and 2010. In addition to evaluating welfare across time and space, we extend the … methodology to evaluate welfare by rural agricultural strata and urban housing cost areas. This modification allows a more …
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broadly, we find total factor productivity (TFP) growth rates of between 1 and 2 per cent across industries, although we find … no TFP growth in the mining sector. We also find that the sector with the highest TFP growth - agriculture - achieved …
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and advocates generalized balanced growth and structural transformation to move Sub-Saharan African countries towards self …
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investigates the impact of climate variability on household welfare in the area using a three-period panel data from the Ghana … temperatures found to be significant drivers of improved welfare. The study thus concludes that climate variability negatively … impacts household welfare, agricultural income, and farm revenue, and recommends inter alia households' diversification of …
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This paper performs a multidimensional first order dominance (FOD) analysis of child wellbeing in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This methodology allows the ordinal ranking of the 11 provinces of the DRC in terms of their wellbeing based upon the probability of their domination. This...
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Developed as well as developing countries will have to increase their ambition relative to their stated Nationally Determined Contributions to limit global temperature increases to 2êC above pre-industrial levels. South Africa's Nationally Determined Contribution, in line with national policy,...
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Divorce and widowhood followed by remarriage are common for women in Africa. A key question is how such discontinuous marital trajectories affect women's wellbeing. Women's marital trajectories in Senegal are described and correlated with measures of voice, resource constraints, and wellbeing as...
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growth has been accompanied by improvements in multidimensional child welfare using a first-order dominance approach applied … growth in the 2000s along with a reduction in rural consumption poverty. This paper evaluates the extent to which recent … do not indicate broad-based welfare advancement at the national, urban, or rural levels, they do suggest progress within …
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The financial sector in rural areas, where most of the poor people in sub-Saharan Africa are found, has transformed massively in recent times, notably through the increased penetration of several types of rural financial intermediaries in addition to rural and community banks and microfinance...
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