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In this paper, we develop a new index labelled the African Women Vulnerability Index (AWVI) with a focus on rural women using Round 7 of the Afrobarometer Survey. The AWVI comprises 59 indicators in six dimensions namely: safety, empowerment, health, education, economic prosperity and...
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This essay has explored the validity of Marxist dependency theories in the context of the emerging China-Africa trade … patterns, this discussion has shown that the China-Africa economic links represent a distinct south-south dialectic occurring … the idea that China’s involvement in Africa is of a conventional center-periphery type; which suggests the existence of …
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development in Africa. Furthermore, defeating a terrorist network requires African nations to work with international partners to … regionally(globally) to reduce external(internal) stresses on fragile(failed)states of Africa. For the Nigerian case, break …
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Mozambique. Gender roles, shaped by patriarchal norms, place heavy work obligations on women. Time-use data from a primary …
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display gender bias after crises in Africa, the results are consistent with factors explaining differences in gender biases … Health Surveys with data on rainfall variability and find a substantial gender difference favouring boys following droughts … gender gap following droughts, especially for infants with mothers who are not working. In contrast, there is no gender …
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Mozambique. Gender roles, shaped by patriarchal norms, place heavy work obligations on women. Time-use data from a primary …
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Do women really improve conditions for gender equality after becoming heads of states? This study investigates if …
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. We compare scenarios with different gender employment intensities in producing jatropha for biodiesel. Under all …
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insecurity by individual household members were ignored. Results show no gender differences in food insecurity for the children … carried out to further investigate if any differences existed after controlling for other factors. While gender still did not …
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The study investigates the relevance of information and communication technology (ICT) in modulating the effect of financial access on female economic participation. Female economic participation is proxied by female labor force participation, financial access is measured with deposit and credit...
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