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Government of Kenya (GoK) integrated gender in a pronounced way in the design and implementation of the Kenya Agricultural …
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design and outcomes. This constitutes a key challenge in Tanzania, where women and femaleheaded households are constrained by …, through their effects on workingage women's employment in the 2000s. We also discuss the extent to which women's employment is … areas of financial services, labour market regulations, and entrepreneurship support, and women's labour market position has …
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Women play a critical yet under-researched role in global digital agri-food value chains, especially in smallholder … product diversification). Research suggests that women's participation in agricultural platform-driven value chains … evidence exists of how such shocks impact women in agriculture generally, let alone those using digital platforms. This paper …
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well the WIID's standardized inequality measures relate to measures of per capita income inequality in Kenya due to lack of …
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This research project traces how women's participation in the Liberian civil wars, as combatants and peace agents …, reconstructs gender relations in the post-civil war context. The current literature examines the role of women in the governance of … rebel groups, emphasizing how women operate within the command structure. While there is a growing trend in assessing the …
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This paper examines the impact of gender based violence against women and girls (GBV), in the environment the children …
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The aid allocation literature has neglected gender-specific needs for aid. We assess the hypothesis that gender inequality in education is more likely to affect the aid allocation of donor countries with female leadership in the relevant ministry. We find no evidence for a needs-based allocation...
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We assess the effect of female bargaining power on the share of educational expenditures in the household budget in India. We augment the collective household model by endogenizing female bargaining power and use a three-stage least squares approach to simultaneously estimate female bargaining...
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findings of a multi-country research programme, 'Pathways of Women's Empowerment', to explore pathways of positive change in … women's lives, in diverse contexts, and to draw together some lessons for policy and practice. It begins with an account of … women's empowerment in development, tracing some key ideas that have shaped feminist engagement with empowerment in theory …
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analyses. While the advent of mobile phone money services has led to increased access to formal financial services, women still … empirical results show that women-especially married women-are less likely to access mobile money services and banking financial … services compared with men. Similarly, women are less likely to save and borrow compared with men, with a higher percentage …
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