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In 2006-07, the Water and Sanitation Program-South Asia (WSP-SA) initiated a research toidentify barriers to service delivery for the urban poor. The research included a review ofvarious initiatives from across the globe that have resulted in improved service delivery for theurban poor and...
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Habitat II, the second United Nations conference on human settlements, also known as the "City Summit," concluded its work on June 14, 1996, in Istanbul. Habitat II indelibly marked the increasingly urban nature of the world and the urgency, extent, and increasing size of problems facing people...
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Trade can dramatically improve women's lives, creating new jobs, enhancing consumer choices, and increasing women … policy on both women and men and to develop appropriate, evidence-based policies to ensure that trade helps to enhance … connections among the economic roles that women play as workers, consumers, and decision makers. Building on new analyses and new …
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Studies of female business leaders and economic performance are rarely conducted with worldwide observational data, and with considerations on the underlying cultural, institutional, and business environment. This paper uses worldwide, firm-level data from more than 100 countries to study how...
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Women, business and the law focuses on this critical piece of the puzzle, objectively highlighting differentiations on … a job, providing incentives to work, building credit and going to court. Women, business and the law describes regional … opportunities for women. For men and women throughout the developing world, the chance to start and run a business or get a good job …
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, El Salvador, Jordan, Kenya, and the Philippines. The study focuses on women's economic empowerment in the context of …This global report examines the opportunity for special economic zones to promote women's economic empowerment and …, labor policies, gender-sensitive professional development programs, family support mechanisms, women's health programs, and …
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This paper reviews the empirical literature on the existence and impact of gender discriminatory laws on women …'s outcomes across various domains (categories) that constitute the Women in Business and the Law measure of gender inequality …. The evidence to date suggests that there are significant negative consequences of legal gender discrimination on women …
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