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With the aim of reducing women's greater unpaid care work than men&'s and increasing women's paid employment, this … analysis of 36 World Bank employment-related projects in Malawi, Mali, Niger, and Rwanda. It concludes that the vast majority …
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transformation in Africa, focusing on sectoral output shares, sectoral employment shares, and the relative labour productivity of … sectors. We find that Africa is gradually advancing towards structural transformation but at a very slow speed. The empirical … product growth and population density reduce unemployment and non-employment. …
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capital on economic performance in resource rich countries in Africa. Using micro level employment growth as a proxy for … and statistically significant relationship with employment growth. Labor market freedom and human capital development … exert a negative impact on employment growth. These results imply that good governance, measured by political stability and …
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countries in sub-Saharan Africa, and we examine how this has evolved over recent years, based on the data collected by … most countries, so that agriculture is still the dominant sector of employment for most young men and women. We model …
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-Saharan African countries for the period 1990-2013. EPW is measured with the female labour force participation and employment rates …
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The tourism literature has largely neglected another important factor that may influence the tourism and income inequality relationships. This factor reflects democractic institutions of the destination country. To contribute to the tourism literature, this studyattemmps to fill a gap in the...
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We examine the distributional effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and associated tax-benefit measures in seven sub-Saharan African countries, focusing on the onset of the crisis. We evaluate impacts on disposable incomes, considering variations across income groups; assess the effectiveness of...
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