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El impacto de la ventanilla única para el registro formal de empresas en República Dominicana
Bobic, Vida; Delgado, Lucía; Gerardino, María Paula; … - 2023
Digital one-stop shops for firm registration can significantly reduce costs and increase access to information for firms entering the formal sector. This paper examines the impact of a nationwide program with a one-stop registration shop and lower registration fees. In addition to analyzing its...
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Cultures of Innovation of the African Poor – Common roots, shared traits, joint prospects? On the articulation of multiple modernities in African societies and Black Diasporas in L...
Kohnert, Dirk - In: Auf dem Boden der Tatsachen. Festschrift für Thomas …, (pp. 241-262). 2011
empowerment or improvement of the well-being of the stakeholders. On the contrary, it often blocks viable indigenous innovation …
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Bride Price and Fertility Decisions: Evidence from Rural Senegal
Mbaye, Linguère Mously; Wagner, Natascha - 2013
women, empowerment will give leeway to girls in traditional societies, even if the bride price system is not overturned. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328927
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Determinants of Empowerment in a Capability Based Poverty Approach: Evidence from The Gambia
Trommlerová, Sofia Karina; Klasen, Stephan; Lessmann, … - 2013
Although empowerment is seen as intrinsically important and instrumentally valuable to escape poverty, there is very … little research on the empirical drivers of empowerment. Using custom-made household-level information and using advanced … drivers of empowerment. We also show that respondents'' confidence that they will be the most powerful agents in their lives …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330027
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Empowering Women: The Effect of Schooling on Young Women's Knowledge and Use of Contraception
Andalón, Mabel; Williams, Jenny; Grossman, Michael - 2014
Large differences in fertility between women with high and low levels of education suggest that schooling may have a direct impact on knowledge and use of contraception. We investigate this issue using information on women in Mexico. In order to identify the causal effect of schooling, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333255
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Women in food and beverages business in urban markets of Khartoum State
Badawi, Sumaia Mohamed El Zein Ahmed; Rahman, Widad Ali … - 2008
This study focused on Sudanese women working in food and beverages business in urban markets of Khartoum State. It aimed at identifying the reasons behind women's work, the constraining and enhancing factors that affect their performance as entrepreneurs, beside their attitude and strategies in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010343375
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Linking transitions and sustainability: A study into social effects of transition management
Schäpke, Niko; Omann, Ines; Wittmayer, Julia; van … - 2016
, aiming for a number of social effects to help facilitating a transition. Effects include empowerment, social learning and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011575804
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Business rights and ethnic exclusion in sub-Saharan Africa: Addressing group-based inequality through business rights reform
Taylor, Scott D. - 2016
The business rights pillar of the Legal Empowerment of the Poor agenda is not preoccupied with equality of outcome; it …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653965
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Rural-urban migration: A path for empowering women through entrepreneurial activities in West Africa
Bello-Bravo, Julia - In: Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research 5 (2015) 9, pp. 1-9
Introduction: Migration has contributed to the economic empowerment of women in West Africa. Empowerment can be … of entrepreneurial empowerment (perceived as positive economic impact even when women did not participate in the decision …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011656440
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Do Constraints on Women Worsen Child Deprivations? Framework, Measurement, and Evidence from India
Posso, Alberto; Smith, Stephen C.; Ferrone, Lucia - 2019
This paper provides a framework for analyzing constraints that apply specifically to women, which theory suggests may have negative impacts on child outcomes (as well as on women). We classify women's constraints into four dimensions: (i) domestic physcial and psychological abuse, (ii) low...
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