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Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Contexts Affected by Fragility, Conflict, and Violence

World Bank Group - 2020

In recent years, the world has seen a sharp rise in violence based on sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) in … and protection challenges that sexual and gender minorities cope with in FCV-affected environments. The paper devotes … experienced by sexual and gender minorities in conditions of forced displacement; and to sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV …

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Surveys, Big Data, and Experiments : How Can We Best Learn about LGBTI Development Outcomes?

Koehler, Dominik - 2017

, by: paying attention to the different ways to define sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and sex …

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Tackling the Demographic Challenge in Uganda

World Bank Group - 2020

At the moment, a child born in Uganda will be only 38 percent as productive when she grows up as she can be if she enjoyed complete education and full health, according to the human capital index (HCI) one of the lowest levels in the world. It will be necessary to ensure that the growing...

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From Demographic Dividend to Demographic Burden? : Regional Trends of Population Aging in Russia

Matycin, Michail Ja. - 2015

Do regions with higher working age populations grow faster? This paper examines this question using data from Russian regions and finds evidence that demographic trends influence regional growth convergence. In other words, keeping other factors constant, poorer regions grow faster than richer...

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Cities of workers, children, or seniors? : age structure and economic growth in a global cross-section of cities

Jedwab, Remi; Pereira, Daniel; Roberts, Mark - 2019

A large literature documents the positive influence of a city's skill structure on its rate of economic growth. By contrast, the effect of a city's age structure on its economic growth has been a hitherto largely neglected area of research. This paper hypothesizes that cities with more...

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Taking power : women's empowerment and household well-being in Sub-Saharan Africa

Annan, Jeannie; Donald, Aletheia; Goldstein, Markus P.; … - 2019

This paper examines women's power relative to that of their husbands in 23 Sub-Saharan African countries to determine how it affects women's health, reproductive outcomes, children's health, and children's education. The analysis uses a novel measure of women's empowerment that is closely linked...

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The effects of international scrutiny on manufacturing workers : evidence from the Rana Plaza Collapse in Bangladesh

Bossavie, Laurent; Cho, Yoonyoung; Heath, Rachel - 2019

After the tragic factory collapse of Rana Plaza in 2013, the direct reforms and indirect responses of retailers have both plausibly affected workers in the ready-made garment sector in Bangladesh. These reforms include a minimum wage increase, high profile but voluntary audits, and an increased...

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Gendered laws

Hyland, Marie; Djankov, Simeon; Goldberg, Pinelopi K. - 2019

This paper offers for the first time a global picture of gender discrimination by the law as it affects women … Women, Business and the Law database, the paper documents large and persistent gender inequalities, especially with regard …

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Effects over the life of a program : evidence from an education conditional cash transfer program for girls

Chhabra, Esha; Najeeb, Fatima; Raju, Dhushyanth - 2019

While most evaluations of education programs in developing countries examine effects one or two years after a program has been introduced, this study does so over an extended duration of a program. Administered in Punjab, Pakistan, the program offers cash benefits to households conditional on...

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Up before dawn : experimental evidence from a cross-border trader training at the Democratic Republic of Congo–Rwanda border

Croke, Kevin; García Mora, María Elena; Goldstein, … - 2020

procedures, tariffs, and rights to small-scale traders to facilitate border crossings, lower corruption, and reduce gender … gender-based violence by 5.4 percentage points (30.5 percentage points among compliers). The paper assesses competing …

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