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Notwithstanding the unprecedented attention devoted to reducing poverty and fostering human development via scaling up social sector spending, there is surprisingly little rigorous empirical work on the question of whether social spending is effective in achieving these goals. This paper...
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Innovation generally takes place in male-dominated industries. A gender gap might therefore exist. This study used data … from the 2015 Tanzania Firm-Level Skills Survey to investigate the gender innovation gap between female-owned enterprises … innovation when compared to male-owned enterprises. The endowments effect had a positive association with the gender innovation …
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What are the major determinants of green growth? What role can the government play to promote green growth? To address these questions, this paper develops a simple Green Solow model that sheds light on the role of finance and technology in the process of green growth. The empirical section of...
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This paper examines the extent to which strategic environmental assessment (SEA) is implemented in Tanzania and whether its implementation is in line with generally practised procedures/criteria. Out of 17 completed SEA, eight cases were purposively selected and assessed by applying an...
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In recognizing that women's participation and gender equity is a precondition for the achievement of acceptable … development outcomes, extractives industry companies are increasingly making public commitments to integrating gender equality …, inclusion, and women's economic empowerment into aspects of their operations. This paper reviews recent literature on gender and …
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In the wake of the current financial and economic crises, the economies of sub-Saharan Africa find themselves squeezed between likely reductions in official development assistance and the pressing challenge to eradicate poverty. Public expenditure allocation to the social sector and to public...
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employment in the nonprimary sector. Early motherhood, in turn, is associated with lower female schooling and a widening gender …
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analysis finds that gender differences in mean leisure time can be attributed to household members, affecting the leisure time … of male and female respondents differently. Overall, the results are consistent with traditional gender roles within the … household and highlight the lack of intra-household bargaining power for women, providing evidence of gender inequality. Lower …
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wellbeing', and 'gender equality' by 2030. It is thus important to investigate son preference to inform policy-makers of the … policy analysis and result in unintended consequences. Existing measures including sex ratios and gender composition of … preference on fertility behaviour in Pakistan, accurate measurement of the forms this gender bias can take is necessary to …
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labour markets. Moreover, the paper highlights the knowledge gaps with regard to the longer-term and gender-specific welfare …
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