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Poor people lack access to health care with a negative impact on their dignity, human capital formation and their risk-management options. Recently an emerging movement of community-based health insurance schemes has attracted the attention of policy makers and researchers as it seems that these...
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This paper provides a fresh look at informal employment, a phenomenon of renewed interest to policy makers and researchers alike. It finds that informal employment is likely to stay, is sometimes a voluntary choice, can offer better working conditions than formal employment and is very...
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Decentralisation has been advocated by donors and development agencies as an important factor broadening citizen participation and improving local governance, thereby promoting poverty reduction from the bottom up. On the basis of a comprehensive review of 19 country case studies documented in...
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Donor agencies and policy makers tend to agree that increased access of women to education, health, credit, formal legal rights and employment opportunities, in conjunction with economic growth, will substantially improve the socio-economic role of women in developing countries. This paper...
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. Des institutions sociales profondément enracinées – normes, codes de conduite, lois et traditions – entraînent une discrimination entre les sexes. . La religion n’est pas systématiquement le vecteur d’une telle discrimination. Toutes les religions dominantes font preuve de...
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La décentralisation occupe depuis ces 20 dernières années une place centrale dans les politiques de développement. Si l’on discute depuis quelque temps déjà des avantages et des risques du transfert du pouvoir et des ressources à des échelons locaux de gouvernement, on commence tout...
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La décentralisation des services de santé, c’est-à-dire le transfert du pouvoir et de la responsabilité de l’État central au niveau local, devrait être bénéfique aux pauvres à condition que les ressources, l’obligation de rendre des comptes et la gouvernance locales soient...
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Si les perspectives générales de l’égalité des genres restent sombres, les récents changements survenus au sein des institutions familiales de certains pays offrent un exemple déterminant.
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Alors même que la croissance est là, l’emploi informel se maintient. Il faut comprendre ce phénomène si l’on veut le « dompter ». Seules des politiques cohérentes fourniront des emplois décents et une protection sociale.
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There is an increasing concern in the development community about the increase in the ‘feminisation of bad jobs’ of many developing countries. Indeed, recent analysis shows a growing proportion of women are in jobs with poor working conditions and low pay. But what is driving this...
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