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Health consequences of sterilizations
De La Rupelle, Maëlys; Dumas, Christelle - 2017
One-third of married women are sterilized in India. This is largely due to family planning programs that put a strong emphasis on 'permanent' contraceptive methods rather than temporary ones. However, little is known about potential adverse effects on women's wellbeing. We analyse the...
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Mothers at peace : post-conflict fertility and United Nations peacekeeping
Bove, Vincenzo; Di Salvatore, Jessica; Elia, Leandro; … - 2022
fertility rates. Yet women often postpone childbearing in expectation of better times. Given the theoretical ambiguity, the … investigate whether the deployment of United Nations peacekeepers affects fertility in post-conflict settings. We study the case … peacekeepers have lower fertility rates in the deployment period. Furthermore, peacekeeping improves child health and fosters …
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Gender preference at birth : a new measure for son preference based on stated preferences and observed measures of parents' fertility decisions
Ali, Mehwish Ghulam; De Silva, Ashton; Sinclair, Sarah; … - 2022
children do not reflect the true extent of son preference in high fertility countries such as Pakistan, where the success of … preference on fertility behaviour in Pakistan, accurate measurement of the forms this gender bias can take is necessary to … appropriately gauge the influence of son preference on the fertility outcomes. The limited capacity of existing measures to …
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Aid, social policy, and development
Addison, Tony; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel; Tarp, Finn - 2015
This paper discusses past and current social policy strategies in the international aid architecture. From the 1990s, aid strategy and policy shifted to put a stronger emphasis on human development. This accelerated with the Millennium Development Goals and will continue under the Sustainable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011312747
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Women's empowerment : what works and why?
Cornwall, Andrea - 2014
Revisiting foundational feminist work on the concept of empowerment from the 1980s and 1990s, this paper draws on the 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010400680
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Employment policy in Mainland Tanzania : what's in it for women?
Lambin, Roosa; Nyyssölä, Milla - 2022
Tanzania has experienced relatively strong and stable economic growth accompanied by social stability over the past two decades. The country is also pursuing an ambitious development plan with significant employment objectives. For development to be fully inclusive, specific attention must be...
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Analysis of the distributional effects of COVID19 and state-led remedial measures in South Africa
Barnes, Helen; Espi-Sanchis, Gabriel; Leibbrandt, Murray V. - 2021
This paper explores the impact of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa on income poverty and inequality in South Africa. Using a static tax-benefit microsimulation model with input datasets that were adjusted to reflect people's earned incomes just before the pandemic (March...
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Exploring social policy trajectories in Mainland Tanzania : driving for gender-inclusive development?
Lambin, Roosa; Nyyssölä, Milla - 2022
In July 2020, the United Republic of Tanzania gained the status of a lower-middleincome country. This came after two decades of significant social policy reforms and transformations in the country's economic structures. This paper explores social policy trajectories in Mainland Tanzania with a...
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Simulating policy options for universal child allowances in Ghana
Evans, Martin - 2018
This paper considers the case for universal child allowances in Ghana. It follows findings from an earlier study of 14 middle income countries that examined optimal approaches to reduce child poverty using universal categorical child allowances. The paper describes the demographic profiles that...
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Incorporating informal workers into social insurance in Tanzania
Lambin, Roosa; Nyyssölä, Milla - 2022
Expansion of social protection reach among workers in the large informal economy represents a persisting and thorny challenge in the development context. In Mainland Tanzania, several domestically led policy reforms have been introduced to increasingly expand social protection for informal...
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