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Education is generally believed to be beneficial in fostering, independent of gender, higher labor productivity. Female … education may, however, cause other socio-economic gains which are not captured by higher wage or better compensation package … enhancing female education and reducing gender education inequality on various measures of sustainable development. After …
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-quality care and education starting from a very early age, supporting lifelong learning, effective social protection schemes, and …
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Both indigenous peoples and the capability approach (CA) take a holistic view on development and stress the multiple dimension of development as the expansion of people's well-being including social, cultural and spiritual elements. The paper investigates to what extent the capability approach...
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Using cross country regressions, this paper constructs a novel distance-to-frontier metric for tracking broad socio-economic inequality (including access of the poor to health infrastructure) over time for individual countries. Given the unavailability of reliable and consistent direct measures...
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The current coronavirus pandemic is an unprecedented public health challenge that has devastating economic impacts for households. Using a sample of 230,540 respondents to online surveys in 17 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, we show that the economic impacts are large and unequal:...
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(education & skills) is one of the most important factors that facilitate the intergenerational transmission of poverty in … find that failure to ensure quality secondary education is a major concern in fighting the poverty transmission from one … comprehensively addressing secondary education through a Social Fund …
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A child’s disability increases childcare demands causing two opposing effects on the mother’s labor supply: while some … types of disability require additional time spent reducing labor supply, othersrequire additional expenses increasing labor … supply. This paper studies the effect of a child’s disability on mothers’ labor supply using data from the 2019-20 IPUMS MICS …
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The right to health has been repeatedly recognized as one of the core human rights, essential for human functioning, human dignity, economic well-being, and development. But the right to health continues to elude hundreds of millions and with Covid-19, perhaps billions of people. Poverty remains...
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inequality in education is more likely to affect the aid allocation of donor countries with female leadership in the relevant … ministry. We find no evidence for a needs-based allocation of aid for education. Female as well as male leaders appear to have …
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choose the non-professional education track. Those who might have otherwise pursued higher, professional education may forgo … education since, they will be overqualified in the host country. This will have a long run affect. As time goes on, therefore …
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