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The southern state of Kerala in India is known for greater status of women and low gender bias in society. However, the … has an additional gender intensification. Internal migration, stagnant agricultural and industrial growth and a vibrant …
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prosperity. It is concluded that gender disparity in the labor market is the main hurdle in the economic wellbeing of the masses …
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We analyze investment decisions when information is costly, with and without delegation to an agent. We use a rational-inattention model and compare it with a canonical signal-extraction model. We identify three "investment conditions". In "sour" conditions, no information is acquired and no...
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Many governments seek to reduce emigration from low-income countries by encouraging economic development there. A large literature, however, observes that average emigration rates are higher in countries with sustained increases in GDP per capita than in either chronically poor countries or...
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"The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Development provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for gender and … reviews and appraisals of the current state of gender and development and considers future trends. It includes theoretical and … politics and policy of how we think about and practice gender and development. Organized into eight inter-related sections, the …
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countries and altered the gender balance in a region that counted gender equality as one of the key legacies of its socialist … past. The transition experience of the region has amply demonstrated that the changes in the gender balance triggered by … various dimensions of gender inequalities and their past dynamics in the countries of Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan …
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