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Female empowerment : impact of a commitment savings product in the Philippines
Ashraf, Nava; Karlan, Dean; Yin, Wesley - 2006
Female empowermentʺ has increasingly become a policy goal, both as an end to itself and as a means to achieving other development goals. Microfinance in particular has often been argued, but not without controversy, to be a tool for empowering women. Here, using a randomized controlled trial,...
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Do we need more women in power? : gender, public policy, and development in Bolivia
Yañez-Pagans, Patricia - 2014
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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Förderung von Mikrounternehmen in Uganda : Geschäfte von Männern profitieren von Krediten kombiniert mit Schulungen
Fiala, Nathan; Janes, Laurin - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 81 (2014) 8, pp. 141-147
Mikrounternehmen sind für einen Großteil der armen Weltbevölkerung Haupteinkommens- und Beschäftigungsquelle. Die Entwicklung geeigneter Förderprogramme für Mikrounternehmen stellt weiterhin eine große Herausforderung dar. Während Finanzspritzen oft bei der Unternehmensgründung helfen,...
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The Child Penalty Atlas
Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen; Landais, Camille; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper builds a world atlas of child penalties in employment based on micro data from 134 countries. The estimation of child penalties is based on pseudo-event studies of first child birth using cross-sectional data. The pseudo-event studies are validated against true event studies using...
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The benefits of considering gender in economic development
Ganguly, Sujata; Nikolova, Elena - 2024
This chapter argues that gender equality and economic development are tightly intertwined, and that gender aspects should be an essential consideration for economic development. The chapter starts by developing a conceptual framework explaining how gender equality and economic development...
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Förderung von Mikrounternehmen in Uganda: Geschäfte von Männern profitieren von Krediten kombiniert mit Schulungen
Fiala, Nathan; Janes, Laurin - In: DIW Wochenbericht 81 (2014) 8, pp. 141-147
Microenterprises are the main source of income and employment for a majority of the world's poor. Developing appropriate programs to help microenterprises grow remains a challenging task. While injections of capital can often help start-ups, funding sustainable business expansion is clearly a...
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The benefits of considering gender in economic development
Ganguly, Sujata; Nikolova, Elena - 2024
This chapter argues that gender equality and economic development are tightly intertwined, and that gender aspects should be an essential consideration for economic development. The chapter starts by developing a conceptual framework explaining how gender equality and economic development...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015073280
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The effects of adult and non-adult mortality on long-run economic development : evidence from a heterogeneous dynamic and cross-sectionally dependent panel of countries between 180...
Herzer, Dierk; Nagel, Korbinian - 2017
This study examines the effects of adult and non-adult mortality on the long-run level of income in a heterogeneous …) while non-adult mortality has no long-run effect on GDP per capita, reductions in adult mortality lead to statistically and … long-run effects of adult mortality and non-adult mortality on GDP per capita before and after the onset of the demographic …
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Trends and patterns of growth, development, achievements of China and India : a comparative analysis
Bhattacharyay, Biswanath; Bhattacharyay, Madhurima - 2016
given to the re-emergence of the Asian giants, the People's Republic of China (PRC) and India. Both countries have attained … unprecedented growth and economic development-PRC and India became the second and fourth largest economies of the world … from US$341 in 1990 to US$4,421 in 2010 whereas India posted a four times growth from US$384 in 1990 to US$1,342 in 2010 …
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Does self help group participation lead to asset creation?
Swain, Ranjula Bali (contributor);  … - 2008
We evaluate the effect of Self Help Group participation on a long term impact parameter, namely asset creation. Indian Self Help Groups (SHGs) are unique in that they are mainly NGO-formed microfinance groups but later funded by commercial banks. The results reveal that longer membership in SHGs...
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