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The Relation Between COVID-19 Vaccination, Economic Development and Political Systems, and Sociopolitical Implications of Vaccine Passport
Coccia, Mario - 2021
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccinations play a main role in the immunization campaign of nations but countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013312616
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003810491
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Social institutions and gender inequality in fragile states : are they relevant for the post-MDG debate?
Branisa Caballero, Boris Sergio; Cardona, Carolina - 2015 - This version: January, 2015
We focus on an issue that appears particularly relevant for fragile states and which has received little attention: social institutions related to gender inequality, defined as societal practices and legal norms that frame gender roles and the distribution of power between men and women in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011297479
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Exploring social policy trajectories in Mainland Tanzania : driving for gender-inclusive development?
Lambin, Roosa; Nyyssölä, Milla - 2022
working-age women. The paper draws on a scoping review of diverse secondary materials, including academic publications …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013173611
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Cluster Analysis of the European Union Gender Equality and Economic Development
Vinska, Oksana; Tokar, Volodymyr - 2022
Purpose – The article aims at discovering classes and clusters of EU member-statesconsidering their levels of economic development and gender equality to foster the enhance-ment of EU cohesion policy.Research methodology – The methodology includes the grouping by two parameters,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014081308
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Cluster analysis of the European Union gender equality and economic development
Vinska, Oksana; Tokar, Volodymyr - In: Business, mangagement and economics engineering : BMEE 19 (2021) 2, pp. 373-388
Purpose - The article aims at discovering classes and clusters of EU member-states considering their levels of economic development and gender equality to foster the enhancement of EU cohesion policy. Research methodology - The methodology includes the grouping by two parameters, economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013348700
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Geographical origins of language structures
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer; Sarid, Assaf - 2018
This research explores the geographical origins of the coevolution of cultural and linguistic traits in the course of human history, relating the geographical roots of long-term orientation to the structure of the future tense, the agricultural determinants of gender bias to the presence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011795284
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Disease, Institutions and Underdevelopment
Hasan, Lubna - 2009
What explains poverty of Sub Saharan Africa and South Asia? One view holds the disease environment of these regions as … economic performance of countries. Disease does not play a significant role in determining outcomes. On the contrary, we find … support for the indirect effect of disease via institutions, as asserted by the 'institutions school'. Interestingly, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013156934
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Good for Living? On the Relationship between Globalization and Life Expectancy
Bergh, Andreas; Nilsson, Therese - 2013
This paper analyzes the relationship between three dimensions (economic, social, and political) of globalization and life expectancy using a panel of 92 countries covering the 1970-2005 period. Using different estimation techniques and sample groupings, we find that economic globalization has a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014151072
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Recent advances in finance for inclusive development : a survey
Asongu, Simplice A.; Moor, Lieven de - 2015
The policy debate has been shifting from the finance-growth nexus to the finance-inequality relationship. In the transition from Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), there has been an urgent policy challenge of putting some structure on recent advances in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408920