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What Can Africa Learn from Asian Development Successes and Failures?
Klasen, Stephan - 2014
Book reviewed in this article: Peter Lawrence and Colin Thirtle (eds.) - Africa and Asia in Comparative Economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014075487
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Economic development, structural change and women's labor force participation : a reexamination of the feminization U hypothesis
Gaddis, Isis; Klasen, Stephan - 2011
A large literature claims that female labor force participation (FLFP) follows a U-shaped trend over the course of economic development. This feminization U hypothesis is motivated by secular patterns of structural change in combination with education and fertility dynamics. We show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010346421
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The fertility transition in sub-Saharan Africa : the role of structural change
Büttner, Nicolas; Grimm, Michael; Günther, Isabel; … - 2023
Despite the recent economic growth in many countries on the African continent, the region has seen a slow fertility transition. In this study, we explore whether the lack of structural economic change can explain this slow fertility transition. We create a unique panel data set combining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014228925
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Economic development, structural change, and women's labor force participation : a reexamination of the feminization U hypothesis
Gaddis, Isis; Klasen, Stephan - In: Journal of population economics 27 (2014) 3, pp. 639-681
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010351489
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The fertility transition in Sub-Saharan Africa: the role of structural change
Büttner, Nicolas; Grimm, Michael; Günther, Isabel; … - 2022
Despite relatively sustained economic growth in at least parts of Sub-Saharan Africa over the past twenty years, the fertility transition has not much advanced in most countries in that region. We explore whether the lack of structural change can explain this slow transition. For this end, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013173728
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The Fertility Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa : The Role of Structural Change
Büttner, Nicolas; Grimm, Michael; Günther, Isabel; … - 2023
Despite the recent economic growth in many countries on the African continent, the region has seen a slow fertility transition. In this study, we explore whether the lack of structural economic change can explain this slow fertility transition. We create a unique panel data set combining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014254441
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A feminization of vulnerability? : female headship, poverty, and vulnerability in Thailand and Vietnam
Klasen, Stephan; Lechtenfeld, Tobias; Povel, Felix - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 71 (2015), pp. 36-53
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011432055
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An Asian poverty line? : issues and options
Klasen, Stephan - In: The Asian "poverty miracle" : impressive …, (pp. 13-29). 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011556012
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An Asian poverty line? : issues and options
Klasen, Stephan - 2016
Given Asia's record of rapid economic growth and the conceptual and empirical problems of the current international … income poverty line ('dollar-a-day'), this paper discusses whether there is merit to develop an Asia-specific poverty line … that addresses some of the shortcomings of the dollar-a-day line and additionally considers Asia's particular economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011561727
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Women in emerging Asia : welfare, employment, and human development
Bardhan, Kalpana; Klasen, Stephan - In: Asian development review 16 (1998) 1, pp. 72-125
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001447529