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Gender and the Job Guarantee : The Impact of Argentina's Jefes Program on Female Heads of Poor Households

Tcherneva, Pavlina R.; Wray, L. Randall - 2008

For many years Argentina was the poster child of IMF austerity and market liberalization policies, until it experienced an economic meltdown in the winter of 2001-2002. To deal with the looming crisis and skyrocketing unemployment and poverty rates, the Argentinean government implemented a...

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Identifying the effects of sanctions on the Iranian economy using newspaper coverage

Laudati, Dario; Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2021

This paper considers how sanctions affected the Iranian economy using a novel measure of sanctions intensity based on daily newspaper coverage. It finds sanctions to have significant effects on exchange rates, inflation, and output growth, with the Iranian rial over-reacting to sanctions,...

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Gender Diversity in the Boardroom. Context and Spanish Case

Giovinco, Angela - 2015

. In 1977, the author of Men and Women of the Corporation, Kanter, showed evidence of the benefits for a company to have a … more balanced boardroom. In the last decade many researchers have dedicated their study on how more women directors could … considered as simply the need to have more women on board, then and more recently as diversity of skills, expertise, culture and …

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