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Contested relationships : women's economic and social empowerment, insights from the transfer of material assets in Bangladesh
Scott, Lucy - 2012
poverty. It is based on the findings of primary fieldwork on the char islands of north-west Bangladesh, investigating the … ; female empowerment ; Bangladesh …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009408475
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Missing from the market : purdah norm and women's paid work participation in Bangladesh
Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Wahhaj, Zaki - 2016
South Asia are in wage employment. We revisit this puzzle using a nationally representative data set from Bangladesh. Probit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596085
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Missing from the market : purdah norm and women's paid work participation in Bangladesh
Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Wahhaj, Zaki - 2017
South Asia are in wage employment. We revisit this puzzle using a nationally representative data set from Bangladesh. Probit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012110131
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Transfers for extreme poverty reduction : implications for patron-client relationships in the context of Bangladesh's agricultural reformation
Scott, Lucy - 2014
"agricultural reformation" of rural Bangladesh, whereby the growth of the non-farm economy and increased connectivity of rural areas … the findings of primary fieldwork on the char islands of north-west Bangladesh which examined the processes resulting from … in rural Bangladesh. Because of this, the activities of the CLP have the potential to be "transformative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010235877
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Contested Relationships: Women.s Economic and Social Empowerment, Insights from the Transfer of Material Assets in Bangladesh
Scott, Lucy - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2012
poverty. It is based on the findings of primary fieldwork on the char islands of north-west Bangladesh, investigating the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009653085
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Contested Relationships: Women’s Economic and Social Empowerment, Insights from the Transfer of Material Assets in Bangladesh
Scott, Lucy - eSocialSciences - 2012
poverty. It is based on the findings of primary fieldwork on the char islands of north-west Bangladesh, investigating the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009391604
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Why Are Older Women Missing in India? The Age Profile of Bargaining Power and Poverty
Calvi, Rossella - 2018
Almost half of missing women in India are of post-reproductive ages. I show that intra-household gender inequality and gender asymmetry in poverty can account for a substantial fraction of these missing women. Using a natural experiment, I link women's intra-household bargaining power to their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012917579
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Social barriers to female migration : theory and evidence from Bangladesh
Amirapu, Amrit; Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Wahhaj, Zaki - 2020
construction of a major bridge in Bangladesh - which dramatically reduced travel time between the economically deprived north …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012303638
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Missing from the Market : Purdah Norm and Women's Paid Work Participation in Bangladesh
Asadullah, M. Niaz - 2017
South Asia are in wage employment. We revisit this puzzle using a nationally representative data set from Bangladesh. Probit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012966045
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Gender discrimination
Shen, Kailing - 2021
This chapter provides a bird's eye view of the literature on gender discrimination. The presentation of studies is grouped into five parts. Part 1 presents evidence of gender discrimination measured via various dimensions in various countries and contexts. Part 2 discusses in detail the gender...
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