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Development through empowerment : delivering effective public services ; a literature review
Xu, Guo - 2013
This paper reviews the channels through which empowerment may improve the efficiency and quality of public service … three broad measures aimed at empowering the poor: empowerment through voice, empowerment through exit, and empowerment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010241523
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Power to women through finance : revisiting the microfinance promise
Nair, Tara S. - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012309304
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Women's empowerment in agriculture and dietary quality across the life course : evidence from Bangladesh
Sraboni, Esha; Quisumbing, Agnes R. - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012110464
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Women's self-help groups, decision-making, and improved agricultural practices in India : from extension to practice
Raghunathan, Kalyani; Kannan, Samyuktha; Quisumbing, … - 2018
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Edutainment, savings, and generational differences in rural areas of Peru
Chong, Alberto; Valdivia, J. Martín - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014382481
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Bride Price and Fertility Decisions: Evidence from Rural Senegal
Mbaye, Linguère Mously; Wagner, Natascha - 2013
women, empowerment will give leeway to girls in traditional societies, even if the bride price system is not overturned. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328927
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Determinants of Empowerment in a Capability Based Poverty Approach: Evidence from The Gambia
Trommlerová, Sofia Karina; Klasen, Stephan; Lessmann, … - 2013
Although empowerment is seen as intrinsically important and instrumentally valuable to escape poverty, there is very … little research on the empirical drivers of empowerment. Using custom-made household-level information and using advanced … drivers of empowerment. We also show that respondents'' confidence that they will be the most powerful agents in their lives …
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Empowering Women: The Effect of Schooling on Young Women's Knowledge and Use of Contraception
Andalón, Mabel; Williams, Jenny; Grossman, Michael - 2014
Large differences in fertility between women with high and low levels of education suggest that schooling may have a direct impact on knowledge and use of contraception. We investigate this issue using information on women in Mexico. In order to identify the causal effect of schooling, we...
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Women in food and beverages business in urban markets of Khartoum State
Badawi, Sumaia Mohamed El Zein Ahmed; Rahman, Widad Ali … - 2008
This study focused on Sudanese women working in food and beverages business in urban markets of Khartoum State. It aimed at identifying the reasons behind women's work, the constraining and enhancing factors that affect their performance as entrepreneurs, beside their attitude and strategies in...
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