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Boda-bodas Rule: Non-agricultural Activities and Their Inequality Implications in Western Kenya

Lay, Jann; George Michuki M’Mukaria; Mahmoud, Toman Omar - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2007

-led. Survival-led diversification would decrease inequality by increasing the incomes of poorer households and thus reduce poverty …. By contrast, opportunity-led diversification would increase inequality and have a minor effect on poverty, as it tends to … diversification strategies. Yet, the poverty and inequality implications differ somewhat from our expectations. Our findings indicate …

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A global perspective on water scarcity and poverty: achievements and challenges for water resource management

Barker, R.; van Koppen, B.; Shah, T. - International Water Management Institute (IWMI) - 2000

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Farm Employment, Immigration, and Poverty: A Structural Analysis

Martin, Philip L.; Taylor, J. Edward - In: Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 28 (2003) 02

This study tests for structural change in the poverty-farm employment relationship between 1980 and 1990. Econometric … impoverished U.S. households in 1980. However, in 1990, the farm employment-poverty relationship reversed: an additional farm job … was associated with an increase in poverty. Our findings suggest immigration to fill low-skilled farm jobs is transferring …

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The Economic Emergence of Women: Bergmann's Six Commitments

Hartmann, Heidi - In: Feminist Economics 4 (1998) 3, pp. 169-180

I suggest in this essay that Barbara Bergmann's approach to the economics of women is characterized by six striking dimensions, or what I call 'commitments', namely: (1) a willingness to incorporate values into her analysis openly; (2) a commitment to applied economics - economic analysis that...

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Basic Needs Budgets Revisited: Does the U.S. Consumer Price Index Overestimate the Changes in the Cost of Living for Low-Income Families?

Renwick, Trudi - In: Feminist Economics 4 (1998) 3, pp. 129-142

used to index the official U.S. poverty guidelines and to establish eligibility criteria for various public assistance … programs, a change in the methodology used to calculate the CPI would impact the accuracy of poverty statistics and, more …

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Teen pregnancy: government programs are not the cause

Blank, Rebecca - In: Feminist Economics 1 (1995) 2, pp. 47-58

Public assistance payments have been blamed for increases in out-ofwedlock birth rates among teenagers and other women. The data indicate that rising nonmarital birth rates are primarily caused by a decline in fertility among married women, combined with a growing share of unmarried women in the...

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INTRODUCTION: GENDER AND AGING

Folbre, Nancy; Shaw, Lois; Stark, Agneta - In: Feminist Economics 11 (2005) 2, pp. 3-5

This volume focuses on gendered differences in the economic resources of the elderly and the individuals charged with meeting the day-to-day care needs of the elderly. Often the burden of care falls on women, who themselves have less access to care as they age. The introduction gives an overview...

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Economics Without Money; Sex Without Gender: A Critique of Philipson and Posner's "Private Choices and Public Health: The AIDS Epidemic in an Economic Perspective"

Christensen, Kimberly - In: Feminist Economics 4 (1998) 2, pp. 1-24

''Economics Without Money; Sex Without Gender'' critiques Tomas Philipson and Richard Posner's neoclassically-based model of sexual ''trades'', which argues that ''market'' mechanisms will be largely sufficient to control the AIDS epidemic. As feminist economists have pointed out, such...

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The help for working parents plan: some potentials and problems

Haveman, Robert - In: Feminist Economics 1 (1995) 2, pp. 105-108

the nation's poverty and welfare problems are not likely to be solved “on the cheap.” …

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Lone Mothers: What is to be done?

Himmelweit, Susan; Bergmann, Barbara; Green, Kate; … - the Women's Committee of One Hundred - In: Feminist Economics 10 (2004) 2, pp. 237-264

This Dialogue presents the views of four authors, from the US, the UK, and Norway, on the best policies to help lone mothers. Lone mothers face an inevitable dilemma in allocating their time between earning income and caring for their children. The low-earning capacity of women in an unequal...

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