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DigitALL for Her: Futurecasting Platform Work for Women in Rural Philippines

Peña, Paul John M.; Yao, Vince Eisen C. - 2022

The global megatrend of the rise of digital platforms has increased labor opportunities for both men and women. Developing countries such as the Philippines have the potential to capitalize on this expansion, but opportunities may be limited where fundamental access issues exist. Gender norms...

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Gendering the Informal Tourism Sector toward Inclusive and Sustainable Growth: The Case Study of Boracay Island

Carlos, Jean Clarisse T.; Bautista, Marie Jel D.; … - 2023

Boracay Island, Malay is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the Philippines. Over the years, its sustained growth as a top tourist destination has been substantially supported by the island's informal tourism sector-that is primarily women dominated. While tourism products and...

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Family planning as an investment in development: Evaluation of a program's consequences in Matlab, Bangladesh

Joshi, Shareen; Schultz, T. Paul - 2007

The paper analyzes 141 villages in Matlab, Bangladesh from 1974 to 1996, in which half the villages received from 1977 to 1996 a door-to-door outreach family planning and maternalchild health program. Village and individual data confirm a decline in fertility of about 15 percent in the program...

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The wage gap between male and female agricultural workers: Analysis and implications for gender and development policy

Briones, Roehlano M. - 2018

The gender gap is a key policy issue across the economic sectors, including agriculture. While the Philippines has - in general - made considerable progress in addressing the gender gap, gender gap in average wages remains a key concern in the case of agriculture. Such wage gap can be attributed...

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Policy and Practice in Rural Tanzania: Grazing, Fishing and Farming at the Local–Global Interface

Allegretti, Antonio - 2022

Who are the rural people of Africa? What does it mean to be part of a 'rural' community in contemporary Tanzania? And why is it important to debate questions of African rurality beyond the mere GDP contribution of rural land-based production? This book seeks to address questions like these....

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Living on a Time Bomb: Local Negotiations of Oil Extraction in a Mexican Community

Schöneich, Svenja (contributor) - 2022

Providing a holistic understanding of extensive oil extraction in rural Mexico, this book focuses on a campesino community, where oil extraction is deeply inscribed into the daily lives of the community members. The book shows how oil shapes the space where it is extracted in every aspect and...

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The collapse of cooperation: the endogeneity of institutional break-up and its asymmetry with emergence

Cordes, Christian; Elsner, Wolfram; Graebner, Claudius; … - In: Journal of Evolutionary Economics 31 (2021) 4, pp. 1291-1315

, anthropology, network analysis, and institutional economics. These perspectives cover individuals, groups, interaction …

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How does moral knowledge matter in development practice, and how can it be researched?

Scholtes, Fabian - 2009

review of seminal contributions to Anthropology of Development, I suggest that the analysis of development practice needs to … perspective conceptually and in terms of operationalisation. For the conceptual part, I draw upon anthropology of morality to show … several aspects of moral knowledge, as well as problems of researching it. I also relate to anthropology of knowledge in order …

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Pre-Industrial and Post-War Economic Development: Is There a Link?

Burkett, John; Humblet, Catherine; Putterman, Louis - 1997

What became the post-War era’s “less developed countries” (LDCs) varied enormously in their pre- modern or pre-industrial economic conditions. We hypothesize that if these countries are arrayed on a continuum of pre-industrial development such as that of the demographer Ester Boserup,...

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What does it mean to be poor? Investigating the qualitative-quantitative divide in Mozambique

Jones, Sam; Tvedten, Inge - 2018

This paper reflects on the relationship between economic (quantitative) and anthropological (qualitative) approaches to the analysis of poverty in developing countries. Drawing on detailed evidence from Mozambique, we argue that different research approaches do not merely see the same poverty...

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