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transitions, urban women's employment has refused to budge, never crossing the 25 percent mark. This paper fills a critical gap in … policy research on women's employment in India. The discussion is situated in the normative construction of motherhood and … to examine the effects of having a young child on mothers' employment in urban India over 1983-2011. The analysis also …
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The relationship between the length of paid maternity leave and the proportion of female workers in the private sector is explored using firm-level survey data for 66 mostly developing countries. The paper finds a large, positive, and statistically significant relationship between the two....
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Bureaucratic performance is a crucial determinant of economic growth. Little is known about how to improve it in resource-constrained settings. This study describes a field trial of a social recognition intervention to improve record keeping in clinics in two Nigerian states, replicating the...
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Behaviors that are putting people's health and well-being at risk are widespread in the developing world and some of them, like smoking and unhealthy diets, are on the rise. Some of these behaviors can be prohibited or prevented by taxation. But financial incentives such as conditional cash...
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Accra in October 2016, mainly focused on generating a balanced and objective analysis of the issues surrounding women in the … boardroom to ascertain the business case for having females on boards in Ghana. The objectives of the study were to examine the … nature of gender diversity in public and private sector boards in Ghana, examine the determinants of board diversity in …
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geographic variations in the operationalization of this policy,4 the essence is that user fees paid OOP by pregnant women or for …
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development. Too many women and children are still dying because they lack access to quality health care, especially in the least … extremely effective in getting high quality, essential health services to women and children. He remarks that empowering … transformational changes in access and quality. As countries move toward universal coverage, fewer mothers die in childbirth, and more …
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Labor market engagement of women is very low in Kosovo - only 12.5 percent of women of working age are employed … compared to 41.3 percent of men - suggesting that women face obstacles to work and or being hired. These barriers can be … towards women. This note focuses specifically on regulations related to maternity and family leave, and their potential impact …
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Every six hours, the death of a woman from the complications of pregnancy serves as the most vexing reminder of Indonesia's challenges with maternal health (MH). This is incommensurate with Indonesia's strong economic development and stature compared with regional peers, especially as MH is a...
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This document offers a useful background for NGOs or organizations working to deliver culturally appropriate maternal health services or interventions through comadronas (midwives) in Solola, Guatemala or the surrounding region. To this end, the information contained herein focuses on...
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