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Worker cooperatives—firms owned and governed by their workers—have experimented with organizational structure in aid of … cooperatives, the inequality effects of formalized hierarchical and distributed management are identified: while formalization of …
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Bangladesh it is often assumed that women are less involved in agriculture, and therefore agricultural insurance might not be of … than women. Total wealth, as captured by total land owned, had no effect on units bought. However, among women total wealth … ample evidence that shocks affect men and women differently and that they allocate resources in different ways. In …
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. We fill this gap by combining data on branch locations of the major microfinance institutions in Bangladesh with …Although microfinance started as a movement to improve women's economic wellbeing through increased female … entrepreneurship in particular, its impact on women's attitudes toward and participation in the labour market is not fully understood …
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1. Methodological choice -- 2. Microcredit and social capital : dynamics of conflict and cooperation -- 3. Credit, dowry practices and social capital -- 4. Intra-household decision making and conflict negotiation -- 5. Gender relations and hidden regulatory practice -- 6. Competition and the new...
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boys in other educational measures. We investigate this with four rounds of surveys from Bangladesh by decomposing … other two decisions. This contradirectional gender bias is unique to Bangladesh and partly explained by the presence of …
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