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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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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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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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Desired Fertility and Children Born across Time and Space

Günther, Isabel; Harttgen, Kenneth - 2013

With about five children born per woman and a population growth rate of 2.5 per cent per year, sub-Saharan Africa has been the world's fastest growing region over the last decade. Economists have often argued that high fertility rates are mainly driven by women's demand for children (and not by...

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Overpopulation

Jackson, William A. - In: Encyclopedia of Global Studies, (pp. 1285-1286). 2012

This article discusses the concept of overpopulation and its practical relevance. Definitions of overpopulation are considered, including approaches centred on sustainability and on average or total welfare. Overpopulation has been linked to the wish for national population policies, which raise...

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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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Theories of the Family and Policy

Jacobsen, Veronica; Fursman, Lindy; Bryant, John; … - 2004

and individual behaviour for the likely success of policy intervention. Anthropology documents not only the universality …

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Cultural Materialism and Institutional Economics

Jackson, William A. - In: Review of Social Economy 54 (1996) 2, pp. 221-244

Economics and culture have usually been kept apart in academic discussion. The resulting division is damaging to economics, since important cultural questions such as the formation of preferences, the influence of ideology and the relation between the individual and society are systematically...

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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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