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This paper reviews the empirical literature on the existence and impact of gender discriminatory laws on women's outcomes across various domains (categories) that constitute the Women in Business and the Law measure of gender inequality. The evidence to date suggests that there are significant...

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The transformative effects of privatization in China : a natural experiment based on politician career concern

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decisions highly contingent on firm characteristics and past performance, complicating the identification of the privatization … 1990s. Relying on the regression discontinuity design, the analysis finds that privatizations led to productivity gains of … specification (including its random-growth variant). The paper further finds that the privatization effects are significantly larger …

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Realizing the Full Potential of Social Safety Nets in Africa

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Toward a New Social Contract : Taking on Distributional Tensions in Europe and Central Asia

Bussolo, Maurizio - 2009

The growing economic fissures in the societies of Europe and Central Asia between generations, between insiders and outsiders in the labor market, between rural and urban communities, and between the super-rich and everyone else, are threatening the sustainability of the social contract. The...

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Who Decides Social Policy? : Social Networks and the Political Economy of Social Policy in Latin America and the Caribbean

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Forever Young? : Social Policies for a Changing Population in Southern Africa

Bruni, Lucilla Maria - 2016

Demography affects our daily lives. Consciously or not, we take into account the demographic context when making choices on employment, savings, health, and education. This report studies how demographic change is likely to affect demand for social services in Southern Africa and how today's...

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The Gambia Social Safety Nets Diagnostic

World Bank Group - 2018

Almost half the population remain poor, but the proportion has increased in rural areas and decreased in urban areas. Poverty stands at 48.6 percent nationally and almost 70 percent in rural areas; 21.3 percent are extreme poor, rising to 32.2 percent in rural areas5. The poverty rate hasn't...

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Organizing Social Protection in Federal States : International Examples of Federalism and Social Protection and Implications for Pakistan

Matsuda, Yasuhiko - 2017

Pakistan's social protection system is still in a nascent stage of development and so is the country's fiscal and institutional architecture for inter-governmental relations. In particular, the implicit devolution of social protection and related functions in the eighteenth constitutional...

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Realizing the Promise of Social Assistance : Cambodia Policy Note

Zambra, Claudia - 2018

Although Cambodia has become one of the world's leaders in poverty reduction, two-thirds of its population remains poor or economically vulnerable, with a large number of households moving in and out of poverty. Cambodian households are exposed to a range of shocks that can have devastating...

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Uzbekistan Social Assistance Targeting Assessment

World Bank Group - 2019

are reaching the poor and can reduce poverty, and consequently to identify ways to improve the current design features and …

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