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WTO has been focusing on women with the aim of building their capacity to trade and using trade as a tool for their … Declaration on Trade and Women's Economic Empowerment which identified Aid for Trade as a key instrument to assist members in … "analysing, designing and implementing more gender-responsive trade policies". Three key facts on women's economic empowerment …
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This paper looks at the various trade policies WTO Members have put into place to foster women's economic empowerment … them have reported at least one trade policy targeting women's economic empowerment. Overall, in four years, almost half of … the WTO membership has implemented trade policies in support of women (at least one). Most (about 70%) of the WTO Members2 …
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-Saharan Africa and in India. In both regions, substantial monetary or in-kind transfers occur with marriage: bride price across Sub …-Saharan Africa and dowry in India. In a simple equilibrium model of the marriage market in which parents choose when their children …% and aggregate income by 4 to 5%, have opposite effects on the marriage behavior of a sample of 400,000 women in the two …
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-demographic literature emphasizes differential fertility channel, this paper investigates differential child mortality - differences in child … model in which both child mortality and fertility are endogenously determined by parental choice, this paper demonstrates … that differential child mortality and its interaction with differential fertility may generate an quot;income inequality …
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This paper tests the hypothesis that a high and persistent exposure to infectious diseases increases the likelihood of civil conflicts. Diseases that are difficult to prevent and treat may reduce the opportunity costs of violent activities, both directly and indirectly. The analysis exploits new...
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Higher wages are generally thought to increase human capital production, particularly in the developing world. We introduce a simple model of human capital production in which investments and time allocation differ by age. Using data on test scores and schooling from rural India, we show that...
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