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opportunities they present for promoting a gender-equality agenda and women's empowerment. The paper begins with a brief … context, concepts, and definitions relevant to SP policies and identifies gender-specific social and economic risks and …
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, gender, and economic development. Finally, I conclude by demonstrating that the net impacts of those biases could lead to … the ranking mechanism that a Noah-like economist would use to prioritize species with respect to gender concerns. I begin … complexity. (Originally: "Biodiversity Prioritisation and Gender" available at www.iegindia.org/workpap/wp324.pdf) …
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prioritisation is likely biased when ignoring the linkages between biodiversity, gender, and economic development. Finally, I … such prioritisation mechanisms with respect to gender concerns. I begin by defining biodiversity and how species are …
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‘threatening’ planning for Women in Development (WID) to the more ‘confrontational’ gender planning with its aspiring goal of …The concept of women’s development has now become an integral part of the development discourses and policy initiatives …. This development has been informed by a remarkable though gradual shift in the perception about women, from the stature of …
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This paper evaluates the impacts of increasing female representation in Bolivian municipal councils on public policy choices and welfare outcomes. By combining detailed administrative panel data on municipal expenditures and revenues together with electoral data, an innovative regression...
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This paper evaluates the impacts of increasing female representation in Bolivian municipal councils on public policy choices and welfare outcomes. By combining detailed administrative panel data on municipal expenditures and revenues together with electoral data, an innovative regression...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011287263
Women and men often receive the same percentage increase in their wage rates with advances in schooling. Because these returns decline with more schooling, the marginal returns for women will tend to exceed those for men, especially in countries where women are much less educated. The health and...
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firms and losses due to crime, the results may suggest that the reason may be a gender bias in the incidence of crime. We …
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xperiment designed to increase property tax compliance to investigate this gender disparity. Our findings reaffirm that women ar …
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We quantify the link between the timing of state-level implementations of political reservations for women in India with the role of women in India's manufacturing sector. While overall employment of women in manufacturing does not increase after the reforms, we find significant evidence that...
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