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policies and programmes of the current Policy that continue to have relevance; and propose new strategic policy and programme …
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policies, as well as social conditions of development. … development. But also in the discovery of unknown areas, in the understanding of institutional structures, economic activities and …
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religion mediate access and returns to education of men and women. The effort is to discuss whether, the capabilities approach … and returns to education compared with knowledge about the dynamics of capability formation generated through a mixture of … addressed in the utility approach is used. The two approaches are juxtaposed to examine how institutions such as caste and …
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in social structures. He examines the full range of economic institutions and explicates the relationship of the economy …, giving particular attention to the effects of culture on economic phenomena and the ways that economic actions are embedded … to politics, law, culture, and gender. Swedberg notes that sociologists too often fail to properly emphasize the role …
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This brief shows how three of the biggest donors to global HIV/AIDS programs can go beyond their stated commitments to address gender inequality and more effectively combat HIV and AIDS.
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Afghanistan is an example of a ‘‘fragile state,’’ characterised by a government that lacks the capacity to provide core services and basic security to its population. Improving health care within fragile states needs to focus on quick and tangible improvement of...
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policies and other institutions. Formal and informal knowledge and innovation must therefore be linked to accelerate …, organizations, institutions, or policies. Innovation means putting ideas, knowledge, and technology to work in a manner that brings … traditional obstacles to improving their livelihoods. To cope with these obstacles, the rural poor draw on indigenous knowledge …
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do all this we find that culture still matters for women employment rates and for hours worked. However, policies and … for a larger menu of policies, institutions and structural characteristics of the economy than has been done so far, our … endogeneity of attitudes, policies and institutions, and by allowing for the persistent nature of labor market outcomes. When we …
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