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This Guidance Note offers comprehensive insights on how to conduct a gender gap analysis of the needs of displaced … women and girls in situations of urban forced displacement. Addressing gender disparities is critical to the consolidation … of peace and security. The 2024-2030 World Bank Group Gender Strategy commits the Bank to closing gender gaps in fragile …
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gender gaps in management is crucial. Diverse management teams make more balanced, equitable decisions that benefit a broader … range of students. For example, gender diversity in school leadership can lead to more inclusive curricula, better …
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"Past research has found that subjective questions about an individuals' economic status do not correspond closely to measures of economic welfare based on household income or consumption. Survey respondents undoubtedly hold diverse ideas about what it means to be "poor" or "rich." Further, this...
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Burkina Faso's Poverty Reduction Strategies (PRS) of the 2000s, which were implemented as annually rolled-over Priority Action Programs, focused on four pillars: a) accelerating broad based growth; b) expanding access to social services for the poor; c) increasing employment and...
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The gender wage gap in Thailand is much less significant than in most countries in the world. The average hourly wage … among female workers, in fact, slightly surpasses that of males. This highly equitable gender wage pattern is seen at all … females in low-wage jobs is as high as in high-wage jobs. One important factor driving this gender wage parity is the higher …
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-reported life satisfaction as a proxy for unobservable utility, the relative income of siblings is tested for relevance as a … positively linked to individual life satisfaction. This evidence supplements the scarce economic research on reference groups …
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"In a relative deprivation framework, unless inequality is reduced, growth is associated with both higher satisfaction … this can also be used to assess the satisfaction and deprivation of each individual. Given the normalization used to derive … the satisfaction and deprivation measures, satisfaction and deprivation add up to the mean income for the population as a …
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