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Disasters in Bangladesh and protests elsewhere have created an intense debate about the value, particularly to women, of apparel employment in developing countries. This paper focuses on how the forces of globalization, specifically the Multi-Fibre Arrangement (MFA), have affected women's wages...
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unique survey of 618 firms in three of the largest cities in the state of Madhya Pradesh (India)?Bhopal, Indore, and Gwalior … employment in urban India is amenable to policy intervention, and that it is not necessary to wait for culture to change …
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rural areas of Northern India. The program has four streams of activity in micro-savings, agricultural enterprise training …
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The recent decline in India?s rural female labor force participation is generally attributed to higher rural incomes in … lower, this alleged income effect does not bode well for the empowerment of women as India develops. This paper argues that … misclassification of urban areas as rural, as a result of household surveys lagging behind India?s rapid urbanization process. The …
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Female labor force participation rates in urban India between 1987 and 2011 are surprisingly low and have stagnated …
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pooled individual-level data for India, the paper compares the age structure and anemia status of women by the sex of their …
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mandated political representation reform for women in India, the study finds that the length of exposure to women politicians … labor market opportunities for women, potentially helping to stem India's declining female labor force participation rate …
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Despite their increasing prominence in policy debates, little is known about gender inequities in non-agricultural labor market outcomes in rural areas. Using matched household-enterprise-community data sets from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Indonesia and Sri Lanka, this paper documents and analyzes...
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children across districts within India. Soil texture varies exogenously and determines the depth of land tillage. Deep tillage …
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