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Rural Electrification and Domestic Violence in Sub Saharan Africa
Sievert, Maximiliane - 2024
Electrification is frequently said to foster women's development and contribute to a modernization of gender roles. Using Demographic and Health Survey data from rural areas in 22 Sub-Saharan countries collected between 1999 and 2014, this paper examines the role of electricity access in...
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Domestic violence against women: Its determinants and implications for gender resource allocation
Toufique, Mohammad Mokammel Karim; Razzaque, Mohammad A. - 2007
Using data from a survey of Bangladeshi households, this paper explores the determinants of domestic violence against women as well as its implications for the resources allocated to women. The findings reveal that higher education of women and that of their husbands, and better socioeconomic...
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Financing micro-entrepreneurs for poverty alleviation: A performance analysis of microfinance services offered by BRAC, ASA, and Proshika from Bangladesh
Khanam, Dilruba; Mohiuddin, Muhammad; Hoque, Asadul; … - In: Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research 8 (2018) 27, pp. 1-17
Microfinance services have emerged as an effective tool for financing micro-entrepreneurs to alleviate poverty. Since the 1970s, development theorists have considered non-governmental microfinance institutions (MFIs) as the leading practitioners of sustainable development through financing...
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Micro-Entrepreneurship and Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from Rural Bangladesh
Faress Bhuiyan, Muhammad; Ivlevs, Artjoms - 2018
three villages of Bangladesh in 2013. In spite of having no direct effects, we find that microcredit borrowing has an …Microcredit has long been hailed as a powerful tool to promote livelihoods and reduce poverty through entrepreneurship … analyzing the effect of microcredit-enabled entrepreneurship on overall life satisfaction – a key manifestation of subjective …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931784
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Empowering women through microcredit in bangladesh: An empirical study
Debnath, Dalia; Rahman, Md. Sadique; Acharjee, Debasish … - In: International Journal of Financial Studies 7 (2019) 3, pp. 1-11
decision making process and women's legal awareness. The study suggested that microcredit providers in Bangladesh should be …The present study was carried out to identify the determinants of microcredit accessibility by rural women households … and its impact on rural women empowerment in Bangladesh. A face-to-face survey was conducted during 2018, interviewing 300 …
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Re-Re-Reply to 'The Impact of Microcredit on the Poor in Bangladesh: Revisiting the Evidence'
Pitt, Mark M. - 2014
The Impact of Microcredit on the Poor in Bangladesh: Revisiting the Evidence,' by David Roodman and Jonathan Morduch … (1998) article 'The Impact of Group-Based Credit on Poor Households in Bangladesh: Does the Gender of Participants Matter …?' that microcredit for women had significant, favorable effects on poverty reduction. This response paper refutes the claims …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010420271
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Einkommens- und Beschäftigungswirkungen von Agrarumweltmaßnahmen, der Ausgleichszulage für benachteiligte Gebiete und der Ausgleichszahlung für Gebiete mit umweltspezifischen Einsc...
Pufahl, Andrea - 2009
In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird eine semi-parametrischer Matching-Ansatz (Propensity Score Matching) verwendet, um den Effekt von Agrarumweltprogrammen, der Aus-gleichszulage für benachteiligte Gebiete sowie der Ausgleichszahlung für Gebiete mit umweltspezifischen Einschränkungen auf den...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301042
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Human capital investments in children: A comparative analysis of the role of parent-child shared time in selected countries
Österbacka, Eva; Merz, Joachim; Zick, Cathleen D. - 2010
Parents invest in their children's human capital in several ways. We investigate the extent to which the levels and composition of parent-child time varies across countries with different welfare regimes: Finland, Germany and the United States. We test the hypothesis of parentchild time as a...
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Avaliando a efetividade da Lei Maria da Penha
Cerqueira, Daniel; Matos, Mariana; Martins, Ana Paula … - 2015
The Law 11.340, known as Maria da Penha Law (MPL), enacted in 2006, represented an important institutional framework in order to overcome domestic violence in Brazil. However, more than eight years after the sanction of MPL, there is a complete gap about empirical studies to evaluate their...
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Domestic Violence, Intrahousehold Bargaining and Child Health Development in Ghana
Nuhu, Ahmed Salim - 2015
I explore a unique exogenous instrument to examine how the intra-familial position of women influence health outcomes of their children using micro data from Ghana Demographic and Health Survey, 2008. Using the 2 SLS-IV estimation technique, I build a model of household bargaining and child...
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