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This paper examines the impact of foreign aid on gender equality in education outcomes in developing countries … indicate that aggregate aid disbursements to the education sector negatively affect gender parity in enrolment at the secondary … and tertiary education levels and have no impact on gender parity in primary education. No impact of subsector specific …
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In this paper we analyse the impact of foreign aid on gender outcomes and attitudes. We do this by matching geocoded …
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The majority of the world's poor, by income poverty and multi-dimensional poverty, now live in countries officially … ending aid. In light of this, this paper considers two competing perspectives on this changing pattern of global poverty: the … mutually exclusive, is that global poverty is gradually in the process of 'nationalizing', at least in terms of resources …
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-for example, to end poverty; (ii) proposes a new way to raise and govern international public funds; (iii) discusses the possible …
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Poverty - are mainstreaming gender concerns along two dimensions. First, are robust gender criteria used to identify … Innovations Against Poverty offers a more robust focus on gender challenges than the Business Innovation Fund. Nevertheless, this …'s International Development Agency to address gender challenges in development. Challenges Funds are meant to bring the interests of …
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drinking water and improved sanitation. Moreover, gender equity remains a major challenge in most countries. In this paper, we … its sectoral allocation have an impact on human development outcomes and gender equity. We find that the impact of aid on … mortality as well as the gender gap in youth literacy regardless of initial conditions, its effects are at best mixed for other …
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The aid allocation literature has neglected gender-specific needs for aid. We assess the hypothesis that gender … gender differences in the allocation behaviour. …
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Donors of foreign aid increasingly claim to consider gender inequality in the recipient countries to be a serious … concern. While aid specifically to promote gender equality receives only a tiny share of aid budgets, allocations to education …, health, and civil society projects could be affected by gender inequality concerns. In this paper, we investigate whether …
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This paper investigates the role of non-traditional aid in meeting global challenges in improving gender equality and … gender-related socioeconomic needs in the twenty-first century. We define non-traditional aid as private donations from … gender issues in developing countries. In the past decade, there has been a significant growth in non-traditional aid …
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poverty reduction: helping the poor earn more in the labour market for the work they do, so that they can buy the goods and … services they need to move up out of poverty. -- foreign assistance ; economic growth ; employment ; poverty ; developing …
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