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Gender Equality, Poverty and Economic Growth
Sinha, Nistha - 2016
reducing poverty and stimulating growth. Going beyond the large literature documenting the impact of female education on a … credit) and women's decision-making power within households on poverty reduction and productivity at the individual and … household level. The paper also summarizes evidence from studies examining the relationship between gender equality and poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747611
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Economic Development and Female Labor Participation in the Middle East and North Africa : A Test of the U-Shape Hypothesis
Verme, Paolo - 2017
The Middle East and North Africa region is known for having low female labor market participation rates as compared with its level of economic development. A possible explanation is that these countries find themselves at the turning point of the U-shape hypothesis when countries transition from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973106
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Conditional Cash Transfers and Female Schooling : The Impact of the Female School Stipend Program on Public School Enrollments in Punjab, Pakistan
Chaudhury, Nazmul - 2017
Instead of mean-tested conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs, some countries have implemented gender-targeted CCTs to explicitly address intra-household disparities in human capital investments. This study focuses on addressing the direct impact of a female school stipend program in Punjab,...
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Unequal Laws and the Disempowerment of Women in the Labor Market : Evidence from Firm-Level Data
Islam, Asif - 2017
Institutions are defined as the set of rules that govern human interactions. When these rules are discriminatory, they may disempower segments of a population in the economic spheres of activity. This study explores whether laws that discriminate against women influence their engagement in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012947268
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Does Gender Equality in Labor Participation Bring Real Equality? Evidence From Developed and Developing Countries
Alfani, Federica; Clementi, Fabio; Fabiani, Michele; … - 2021
Over the past two decades developing countries have seen a rapid increase in the number of women taking an active role in the labor market. While acknowledging that this is an important development outcome, this paper cautions against the possible undesired distributional effects that it can...
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Wider Economic Benefits of Investments in Transport Corridors and the Role of Complementary Policies
Melecky, Martin - 2018
, the poverty rate, or the incidence of regular wage employment. The results suggest that the highways caused an increase in …
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Gender Gaps in the Labor Market and Economic Growth
Agenor, Pierre-Richard - 2018
This paper studies the effects of policies aimed at mitigating discrimination against women in the marketplace on the gender wage gap, decisions to invest in skills, the composition of employment and unemployment, and long-run growth. The analysis uses a gender-based overlapping generations...
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Gender Inequality and Growth : The Case of Rich vs. Poor Countries
Amin, Mohammad - 2017
This paper uses cross-section data for 107 countries to explore the relationship between gender inequality and economic growth. The paper departs from the literature by using a broad measure of gender inequality that goes well beyond gender inequality in education, which has been the focus of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972226
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Economic Development as Opportunity Equalization
Roemer, John E. - 2017
Economic development should be conceived of as the degree to which an economy has implemented an efficient and just distribution of economic resources. The ubiquitous measure of GDP per capita reflects a utilitarian conception of justice, where individual utility is defined as personal income,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974166
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Does Gender Inequality Hinder Development and Economic Growth? Evidence and Policy Implications
Bandiera, Oriana - 2017
Does the existing evidence support policies that foster growth by reducing gender inequality? The authors argue that the evidence based on differences across countries is of limited use for policy design because it does not identify the causal link from inequality to growth. This, however does...
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