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Empowering women through employment, earnings and wealth in India

Mathur, Aparna; Slavov, Sita Nataraj - American Enterprise Institute - 2013

Using data from two detailed, nationally representative, household datasets, we explore whether women who are economically empowered are less likely to experience domestic violence. We find that, while working women may be at a greater risk of violence, higher earnings are associated with a...

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Intellectual Property Rights in Emerging Markets

Long, Clarisa - American Enterprise Institute

This book considers the three geographical regions that present the greatest intellectual property rights problems to U.S. industries--China, Latin America, and India.

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Sparking the #MeToo revolution in India: The "Nirbhaya" case in Delhi

Mathur, Aparna; Munasib, Abdul; Roy, Devesh; Bhatnagar, … - 2019

In 2012, anger erupted on the streets of Delhi following the violent rape and murder of a young woman. The scale of the protests, the extent of the media coverage, and the intensity of the public's opprobrium of the police and the administration of Delhi, was unprecedented. This paper argues...

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The role of legislative change in reducing domestic violence against women in India

Mathur, Aparna; Slavov, Sita Nataraj - 2016

This paper investigates whether two legislative changes aimed at empowering women did in fact lower the risk of domestic violence for women in India. We use the National Family Health Survey, a nationally representative household dataset to explore this issue. The first legislative change we...

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Boosting access to credit and ensuring financial inclusion for all in Costa Rica

Sunel, Enes - 2020

Having access to credit is essential for households to address the volatility of their personal finances over time and for firms to fund their investments. Accessing financial services at affordable cost on the other hand, is crucial to ensure financial security of all economic units. Despite...

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WHERE ARE THE WOMEN? GENDER, LABOR, AND DISCOURSE IN THE NOIDA EXPORT PROCESSING ZONE AND DELHI

Soni-Sinha, Urvashi - In: Feminist Economics 12 (2006) 3, pp. 335-365

postmodern feminist thinkers. The article focuses on the role that language, discourse, and subjectivity play in the gendering …

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Narrative worlds of frugal consumers : unmasking romanticized spirituality to reveal responsibilization and de-politicization

Jagannathan, Srinath; Bawa, Anupam; Rai, Rajnish - In: Journal of business ethics : JBE 161 (2020) 1, pp. 149-168

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A nexus between child labour and microfinance : an empirical investigation

Chakrabarty, Sayan - In: Economic papers : a journal of applied economics and policy 34 (2015) 1/2, pp. 76-91

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Household's expenditure in health and education : effects on poverty and child poverty estimates in five middle income countries : India, Mexico, South Africa, Russian Federation a...

Ait Mansour, Hicham - 2016

There is a wide agreement among poverty research community that conventional estimates of poverty (i.e., money … overestimate total household expenditure, which results in an underestimation of poverty measured in terms of household expenditure … poverty and child poverty estimates in five middle-income countries (India, Mexico, South Africa, Russian Federation and Peru …

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Poverty-food security nexus : evidence from a survey of urban slum dwellers in Kolkata

Maitra, Chandana; Prasada Rao, D. S. - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 72 (2015), pp. 308-325

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