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Female labor force participation rates in urban India between 1987 and 2011 are surprisingly low and have stagnated since the late 1980s. Despite rising growth, fertility decline, and rising wages and education levels, married women's labor force participation hovered around 18 percent. Analysis...
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(DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality … incomes from assets in the DHS, and is able to generate new information on poverty and inequality in Bolivia. …
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poor growth, then summarizing the linkages between inequality, poverty, and pro poor growth, before proceeding to analyze …
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Surveys (DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality … poverty and inequality in Bolivia. …
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rising average attendance, while inequality in completion rates or schooling years increases with rising completion rates or … initial inequality in education. At the regional level, educational progress was generally more pro-poor in Asia and Latin … America, while in Africa the experience is very heterogeneous. While gender inequality has decreased slightly, large …
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It has been argued that the potential gains of community-driven development (CDD) poverty programs are large as these can foster sustained poverty reduction. However, recent literature shows that community involvement can increase the risk of elite capture, particularly in more unequal...
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per capita incomes, poverty, or inequality. At the macro level this can be seen at the off-setting effects of population … household size on poverty and inequality appears to have fallen in recent years, particularly in rural areas. Thus demographic …
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factor in the increase of inequality. If Uganda began a period of sustained fertility decline, the estimates reviewed here … between 1.5 and 3 percentage points. It could also significantly contribute to improvements in poverty, inequality, education …
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conceptual and measurement problems. Among the conceptual issues considered are the space in which gender inequality in well … measures of well-being by the gender inequality in well-being, whether gender equality in every indicator is necessarily the … goal, how to assess gender inequality that is apparently desired by males and females, and what role indicators of agency …
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Pro-poor growth has been identified as one of the most promising pathways to accelerate poverty reduction in developing countries. The diagnostic pro-poor growth toolbox has so far focused on the income dimension as well as key non-income achievements in education and health. This article...
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