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This paper analyses the impact of comprehensive sex education on teenage pregnancy rates in Ecuador, specifically examining its implementation in schools. The inclusion of sex education as a mandatory cross-cutting theme in the updated and strengthened educational curriculum of 2010 provides a...
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identifies linkages between gender, economic development, and growth, however. This paper explores the macro effects of gender …, transmitted via the productive sector and in the household, in part due to the tendency for work - paid and unpaid - to be gender …-segregated. Macro-level policies in turn can have differential effects on men and women. Evidence that gender equality is itself a …
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With a focus on cities in eastern and southern Africa, this paper draws on recent scholarship and my own research in Lusaka, Zambia, to analyse pathways for, and challenges to, greater social mobility for youth against the background of economic, political, and spatial processes that are...
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Wartime sexual violence is widespread across conflict zones and thought to leave a disastrous legacy for survivors, communities, and nations. Yet, systematic studies on i) the prevalence and ii) the social and political consequences of wartime sexual violence are fraught with severe data...
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The paper looks at the evolution of industry in Uganda examining drivers and constraints since the pre-colonial period in the 1940s to date. It is argued that the state played a central role in industrialization during the pre-colonial and immediate post-colonial period. The paper further looks...
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The transfer from an import-substitution to an export-orientation strategy has been in effect in Vietnam since the reform process, Doi Moi, necessitating the reformulation of macroeconomic, trading and sectoral policies. As a result, the industry sector has experienced gradual growth as the...
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This paper aims towards better understanding the role of entrepreneurship in fragile states, which despite the practical interest and relevance has been somewhat disregarded in academic research. Given the necessity to support policy formulation with appropriate and relevant measurement of...
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We conduct a lab experiment to assess whether gender of dictators and recipients, and distributional preferences affect …. Second, male dictators appropriate a greater share of the pie than females and more is taken from known gender (male …
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Agriculture is a main contributor to pro-poor growth in Africa, but gender inequalities in the sector hold back … agricultural growth and affect household welfare negatively. The sector has been characterized by a lack of gender …-disaggregated data and patchy gender-integration in policies and operational responses. To remedy this, the World Bank (WB) and the …
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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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