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Impact of Rooftop Rain Water Harvesting Technology on Women Well-being in Hilly and Fragile Areas: Evidence from Pakistan

Ahmed, Ajaz; Mustafa, Usman; Nasir, Muhammad - Pakistan Institute of Development Economics - 2011

is women for they are the ones who have to fetch water far from their dwelling units. In order to resolve the water … (RRWH). This study assesses the impact of RRWH system with special reference to women health in the hilly and earth quake … that RRWH technology is viable, profitable; women friendly and sustainable source of water supply, especially in the …

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Hybrid seed use and diversity of diets among women in smallholder maize: Growing households in Zambia

Smale, Melinda; Moursi, Mourad; Birol, Ekin; De Groote, Hugo - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013

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Analysis of Impact of Microfinance Services on Business Performance of Small Scale Women Entrepreneurs in Enugu State, Nigeria

Ike, P. C. - In: Asian Journal of Agriculture and rural Development 3 (2013) 6, pp. 424-429

This study analyzed access to microfinance services and its impact on performance of small scale women business …

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Tackling change: future-proofing water, agriculture, and food security in an era of climate uncertainty

McCornick, Peter; Smakhtin, Vladimir; Bharati, Luna; … - International Water Management Institute (IWMI) - 2013

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Assessing the feasibility and fidelity of an intervention for women with violent offenses

Kubiak, Sheryl Pimlott; Fedock, Gina; Tillander, Elizabeth - In: Evaluation and Program Planning 42 (2014) C, pp. 1-10

Women convicted of assaultive or violent offenses represent a small but important subpopulation of adults involved in … the criminal justice system. The limited treatment and rehabilitation programs that are available for these women are … usually developed for male offenders and do not consider factors that are especially relevant to women, such as higher rates …

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Guyana: Technical Note on Indigenous Peoples

Renshaw, Jonathan - Inter-American Development Bank - 2007

The aim of this note is to provide an overview of the situation of the Indigenous Peoples of Guyana. The note covers a range of issues, including land regularisation, environment - especially mining, logging and the establishment of protected areas - economic development, education, health care...

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Gender, Worker Representation and the Profitability of Firms in Germany

Jirjahn, Uwe - Fach Volkswirtschaftslehre, Universität Trier - 2011

whether it reduces a wage differential that reflects productivity differences between men and women. This study addresses the … establishments, the empirical analysis suggests that there is a positive association between the share of women and profitability in …

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Trends in Long Term Employment in the United States, 1979-96

Farber, Henry S. - Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics - 1997

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Earnings cosmetics and auditor gender: evidence from Finnish private firms

Niskanen, Jyrki; Karjalainen, Jukka; Karjalainen, Jussi; … - In: International Journal of Behavioural Accounting and Finance 3 (2012) 3/4, pp. 188-201

This paper investigates whether there are differences in cosmetic earnings management between firms audited by male vs. female auditors in a sample of private Finnish firms. We find that earnings cosmetics is more likely to appear in firms audited by male auditors. Our results also indicate that...

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A pilot study for measuring correlations between hormone levels and risk taking in men and women at different times of day

Oran, Jale S.; Akyatan, Ayça - In: International Journal of Behavioural Accounting and Finance 3 (2012) 3/4, pp. 202-220

with testosterone and cortisol in men than in women and that hormones and risk taking were more strongly associated in the …

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