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The Motherhood Penalty and Female Employment in Urban India
Das, Maitreyi Bordia - 2017
Since the 1990s, India has seen robust economic growth, rising wages, steady fertility decline, increased urbanization, and expanded educational attainment for males and females. But unlike other countries that have undergone similar transitions, urban women's employment has refused to budge,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246337
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Food prices, access to markets and child undernutrition in Ethiopia
Brenton, Paul; Nyawo, Mike - 2019
This paper looks at how changing food prices affect child undernutrition in Ethiopia. It derives height for age (stunting) and weight for height (wasting) as indicators of child undernutrition from the two most recent years of the Livings Standards Measurement Survey and utilizes market prices...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022286
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Making Infrastructure Work for Women and Men : A Review of World Bank Infrastructure Projects (1995-2009)
World Bank - 2010
This report provides a gender review of a decade and a half of World Bank infrastructure lending for 1,246 projects …. The objective of this review is to assess the status of and trends in gender integration in the World Bank infrastructure … 2006 gender action plan. The portfolio review reveals important progress on gender integration in infrastructure operations …
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Underutilized potential : the business costs of unreliable infrastructure in developing countries : Lifelines: the Resilient Infrastructure Opportunity : background paper
Rentschler, Jun; Kornejew, Martin; Hallegatte, Stéphane; … - 2019
This study constructs a microdata set of about 143,000 firms to estimate the monetary costs of infrastructure … substantial drag that unreliable infrastructure imposes on firms in developing countries. Yet, these figures are likely to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012052026
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Covariate shocks and child undernutrition : a review of evidence from low- and middle-income countries
Debebe, Zelalem Yilma; Raju, Dhushyanth - 2020
Unexpected adverse events that affect areas or populations widely (covariate shocks) can have major consequences for the welfare of a society. Although the negative effects on households, especially among the poor, are well established in the economics literature, fewer studies have focused on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012241353
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Cost recovery and financial viability of the power sector in developing countries : insights from 15 case studies
Huenteler, Joern; Hankinson, Denzel; Rosenthal, Nicole; … - 2020
This paper analyzes power utilities in 15 jurisdictions to understand the determinants of success for reforms aimed at improving financial viability and cost recovery in the power sector and the impacts of these reforms on metrics of sector performance. The analysis finds that electricity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228695
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Attracting private solutions and participation in the power sector in Sub-Saharan Africa : findings from a survey of investors and financiers
Probst, Benedict; Holcroft, Richard; Huenteler, Joern; … - 2020
This paper develops a classification of investor risks and surveys 51 private investors and financiers in the power sector in Sub-Saharan Africa. The paper aims for a better understanding of what can be done to attract private solutions to fill the investment gap. It finds that the average...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012257076
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The rail freight challenge for emerging economies : how to regain modal share
Aritua, Bernard - 2019
This report captures ways in which policy makers and senior officials in railway organizations from emerging economies can accelerate modal shift to rail. Such officials, as well as the general public, aspire for more freight to be moved by rail. The environmental and societal benefits of such a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012644052
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Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2018 : From World Development Indicators
2018
, gender, water, energy, jobs, infrastructure, inequalities, cities, consumption, climate, oceans, the environment, peace …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012644109
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The Safe Food Imperative : Accelerating Progress in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Jaffee, Steven - 2018
Food safety hazards are increasingly being recognized as a major public health problem worldwide, yetamong developing countries, there is limited understanding of the wider-ranging socio-economic costs ofunsafe food and the benefits of remedial or preventative measures. This limited evidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012644185