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Social Protection and Disaster Risk Management in the Philippines : The Case of Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan)
Bowen, Thomas - 2017
the East Asia Pacific region. The Department of Social Welfare and Development is prominently integrated into the national …
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Who Serves the Poor? Surveying Civil Servants in the Developing World
Rogger, Daniel - 2017
, Ghana, Indonesia, Nigeria, Pakistan and the Philippines, to highlight key aspects of their characteristics and experience of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012957069
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Women's Decision Making Power and Human Development : Evidence from Pakistan
Hou, Xiaohui - 2017
. The unitary model seems to fit Pakistan's context because the prevailing traditional culture positions the male head as … the household decision maker. However, using a set of direct measures of decision-making power from the Pakistan Social … women, the collective household bargaining model applies. This study also finds that, in Pakistan, when women have more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975724
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Empowering Women : The Effect of Women's Decision-Making Power on Reproductive Health Services Uptake -- Evidence from Pakistan
Hou, Xiaohui - 2017
health services in the South Asia region, but the evidence so far is inconclusive. This study uses the Pakistan Social and … toward improving women's utilization of maternity services must target men as well as women in Pakistan …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976194
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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
direct impact of a female school stipend program in Punjab, Pakistan: Did the intervention increase female enrollment in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012746846
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Preschool Availability and Female Labor Force Participation : Evidence from Indonesia
Halim, Daniel Zefanya - 2019
At 50.9 percent, female labor force participation in Indonesia is far below the regional average of 60.8 percent. Is it being hindered by a lack of affordable childcare services in the country? This paper exploits the joint variations in preschool age eligibility and access to preschool across...
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Safety Nets and Natural Disaster Mitigation : Evidence from Cyclone Phailin in Odisha
Christian, Paul - 2018
To what degree can vulnerability to extreme weather events be mitigated by access to a rural livelihoods program, particularly with regard to the impacts on women? This paper addresses this question through a natural experiment arising from two independent but overlapping sources of variation:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012923622
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Rural Non-Farm Employment and Household Welfare : Evidence from Malawi
Adjognon, Guigonan Serge - 2017
This paper uses nationally representative panel data and a combination of econometric approaches, to explore linkages between rural non-farm activities (wage and self-employment) and household welfare in rural Malawi. The paper analyzes the average treatment effects and distributional effects on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012954308
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Who Uses Bottled Gas? Evidence from Households in Developing Countries
Kojima, Masami - 2017
Household surveys in Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka were analyzed using a two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975879
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Precarious Drop : Reassessing Patterns of Female Labor Force Participation in India
Andres, Luis Alberto - 2017
This paper uses successive rounds of National Sample Survey Organization data from 1993-94 to 2011-12, and draws from census data. This paper (i) provides a description of nearly two decades of patterns and trends in female labor force participation in India; (ii) estimates the extent of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012959133