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, aiming for a number of social effects to help facilitating a transition. Effects include empowerment, social learning and …
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The business rights pillar of the Legal Empowerment of the Poor agenda is not preoccupied with equality of outcome; it …
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empowerment or improvement of the well-being of the stakeholders. On the contrary, it often blocks viable indigenous innovation …
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This paper reviews the channels through which empowerment may improve the efficiency and quality of public service … three broad measures aimed at empowering the poor: empowerment through voice, empowerment through exit, and empowerment …
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This paper studies how targeted cash transfers to women affect their empowerment. We use a novel identification …
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This paper studies how targeted cash transfers to women affect their empowerment. We use a novel identification …
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women, empowerment will give leeway to girls in traditional societies, even if the bride price system is not overturned. …
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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 …
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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...
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This paper studies the link between television and divorce in Brazil by exploiting variation in the timing of availability of the signal of Rede Globo - the network that had a virtual monopoly on telenovelas in the country - across municipal areas. Using three rounds of Census data (1970, 1980...
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