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Motherhood and flexible jobs : evidence from Latin American countries

Berniell, Inés; Berniell, Lucila; Mata, Dolores de la; … - 2021

more conservative gender norms and less generous family policies are associated with larger differences between mothers …' and non-mothers' labour market outcomes. …

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The effectiveness of foreign aid to women's equality organizations in the MENA : does aid promote women's political participation?

Baliamoune-Lutz, Mina - 2013

In this paper, we address the question of whether official development assistance promotes gender equality in the Middle East and North Africa region by examining the effects of aid to Women's Equality Organizations and Institutions on women's political empowerment, measured by the proportion of...

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Social norms as a barrier to women's employment in developing countries

Jayachandran, Seema - 2019

This paper discusses cultural barriers to women's participation and success in the labor market in developing countries. I begin by describing how gender norms influence the relationship between economic development and female employment, as well as how gender norms differ substantially across...

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A review of external assistance and aid effectiveness for maternal and child health : challenges and opportunities

Bhutta, Zulfiqar Ahmed; Aleem, Samia - 2013

reducing maternal, newborn, and child mortality around the world. The growth rate of development assistance targeted towards …

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The impact of foreign aid on maternal mortality

Banchani, Emmanuel; Swiss, Liam - 2019

the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the World Development Indicators, and the Institute for Health …

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Climate change and developing country interests : cases from the Zambezi River Basin

Arndt, Channing; Chinowsky, Paul; Fant, Charles; … - 2015

We consider the interplay of climate change impacts, global mitigation policies, and the interests of developing countries to 2050. Focusing on Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia, we employ a structural approach to biophysical and economic modeling that incorporates climate uncertainty and allows...

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Global poverty, aid, and middle-income countries : are the country classifications moribund or is global poverty in the process of 'nationalizing'?

Sumner, Andrew - 2013

The majority of the world's poor, by income poverty and multi-dimensional poverty, now live in countries officially … classified by the World Bank as middle-income countries. Of course nothing happens when a country crosses a (somewhat) arbitrary … first is that the thresholds used to classify countries by the World Bank and extensively used by aid agencies, albeit with …

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Global collective action in health : the WDR+20 landscape of core and supportive functions

Blanchet, Nathan (contributor) - 2014

This paper discusses shifts in development assistance for health (DAH) since 1990, analyses the nature of the current distribution of funding, and considers future implications. Based on Jamison et al. (1998) and Frenk and Moon (2013), we introduce an ‘essential functions’ framework, which...

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Another look at foreign aid

Ranis, Gustav - 2013

The foreign aid landscape has undergone a paradigm shift in the last few decades, with changes in the behaviour of 'traditional' donors and a new focus on selectivity in aid disbursement, as well as 'new' donors and South-South co-operation playing an increasingly important role. Amidst these...

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Environmental and climate finance in a new world : how past environmental aid allocation impacts future climate aid

Marcoux, Christopher; Parks, Bradley; Peratsakis, … - 2013

In this paper we update previous work that categorizes foreign aid projects in terms of their likely impact on the natural environment. We then document trends in the global distribution of environmental aid over time and show that environmental aid has increasingly focussed on global...

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