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The changing face of irrigation in Kenya: opportunities for anticipating changes in Eastern and Southern Africa
Blank, H. G.; Mutero, C. M.; Murray-Rust, H. - International Water Management Institute (IWMI) - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009132032
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Expanding the frontiers of irrigation management research: Results of research and development at the International Irrigation Management Institute, 1984 to 1995
Merrey, D. J. - International Water Management Institute (IWMI) - 1997
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009132077
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Space, Buildings and the Life Worlds of Home-Based Workers: Towards Better Design
Holliss, Frances - In: Sociological Research Online 17 (2012) 2, pp. 24-24
This article draws on recent research into the architecture of home‐based work, the working practices of the home-based workforce and the range and types of buildings they inhabit. The initial project was conducted in 2005-07. It involved 76 informants, from urban, suburban and rural contexts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010692249
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Gender and social protection in South Asia : an assessment of the design of non-contributory programmes
Tebaldi, Raquel; Bilo, Charlotte - 2019
Social protection has received increased attention as a measure to reduce poverty and vulnerability and achieve social transformation, including the reduction of gender inequality. According to the Social Protection Inter-Agency Cooperation Board (SPIAC-B 2019), to contribute to gender equality,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012105139
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Gender and social protection in South Asia : an assessment of the design of non-contributory programmes : executive summary
Tebaldi, Raquel; Bilo, Charlotte - 2019
Social protection has received increased attention as a measure to reduce poverty and vulnerability and achieve social transformation, including the reduction of gender inequality. According to the Social Protection Inter-Agency Cooperation Board (SPIAC-B 2019), to contribute to gender equality,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012105141
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Designing urban women's safety : an empirical study of inclusive innovation through a gender transformation lens
Schwittay, Anke - In: The European journal of development research : journal … 31 (2019) 4, pp. 836-854
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149402
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Numeracy and unemployment duration
Dohmen, Thomas; Van Landeghem, Bert G. M. - 2019
Governments are showing an increasing interest in quantitative models that give insights into the determinants of unemployment duration. Yet, these models oftentimes do not explicitly take into account that unemployment prospects are influenced by personality characteristics that are not being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012060752
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Gender equity in education : helping the boys catch up
Paqueo, Vicente B.; Orbeta, Aniceto C. - 2019
, Filipino males were somewhat more educated than females. Now the males are lagging behind the females and the education gender … paper argues that today gender equality advocacy should go beyond the stereo-typical focus on girls' education and pay more … attention to issues that are hurting boys’ education. Failure to pursue win-win strategies to address gender bias in education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012009022
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The persistence of the gender earnings gap : cohort trends and the role of education in twelve countries
Bar-Haim, Eyal; Chauvel, Louis; Gornick, Janet C.; … - 2018
view. Using the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) data, we show that while in terms of attainment of tertiary education women … demonstrate that the role of education in explaining the gender earnings gap has been limited and even decreased over cohorts … education continues. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011870151
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Does foreign aid in education foster gender equality in developing countries?
Maiga, Eugenie W. H. - 2014
This paper examines the impact of foreign aid on gender equality in education outcomes in developing countries … indicate that aggregate aid disbursements to the education sector negatively affect gender parity in enrolment at the secondary … and tertiary education levels and have no impact on gender parity in primary education. No impact of subsector specific …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010246745