Showing 1 - 10 of 890
This paper aims to understand how policy change for women's rights occurs, and what factors and conditions facilitate non-state actors' influence over policy processes. It argues that policy change is a complex and iterative process, and explores the range of actors that mobilize for/against...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011772371
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012818608
Over 30 percent of female workers are self-employed across Latin America, relying on this mode of work for subsistence. Self-employment in the region is regularly marked by the absence of health insurance and lack of pension benefits. Despite the aspirations of many women to gain access to these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015078317
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012818616
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013502582
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000721841
Violence against women (VAW) is only beginning to be recognized as a major societal problem within and across Asia …-VAW laws; and the lack of a regional anti-VAW Convention in Asia. This UNRISD working paper explores how the global context of … transnational forces are radically altering the policy environment in Asia, making it non-negotiable for governments to respond to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011485109
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014534662
This paper examines the impact of universal health security in Thailand and probes the impacts of the 30 Baht health … in Thailand. Health financing reform and the path toward universal health coverage (UHC) in the country are addressed in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011484259
Southeast Asia is one of the most vulnerable regions of the world to the impacts of climate change. At the same time … the greatest emissions reductions at lowest cost. This study focuses on five developing countries of Southeast Asia that … collectively account for 90% of regional emissions in recent years-Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Viet Nam …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011591797