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Despite increases in women's employment, significant gender disparity exists in the time men and women spend on household and care work. Understanding how social expectations govern gender roles and contribute to this disparity is essential for designing policies that effectively promote a more...
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Existing studies that evaluate the impact of pollution on human beings understate its negative effect on cognition, mental health, and happiness. This paper attempts to fill in the gap via investigating the impact of air quality on subjective well-being using China as an example. By matching a...
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both riverine flooding and sea level rise, and because a large portion of its population is dependent on agriculture for … its livelihood. The goal of this research was to examine the likely impacts of climate change on agriculture in Bangladesh … four general circulation models (GCMs) to evaluate the impact of climate change on agriculture in Bangladesh by 2050. We …
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Irrigation is central to Pakistan’s agriculture; and managing the country’s canal, ground, and surface water resources …
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leveraging agriculture for development. This paper examines how a changing climate may affect rice production and how Vietnamese …
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agriculture. To this end, heads of state in Africa rallied to form the pan-African Comprehensive African Agriculture Development … agriculture alone is not enough. Policy can play an important role not only to make public investment more efficient, but also is … crucial for incentivizing private sector and farmer investment in agriculture. Against this backdrop this paper takes stock of …
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, bureaucrats, interest groups, and donors — and of institutions and political and economic governance environments affect the … textbook budget process in empirical reality, seems to also reject the notion that there are any systematic politico-economic …
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disease is widespread. Many of those most afflicted are part of farming households; therefore agriculture, poverty, and health …
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The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) is a new survey-based index designed to measure the empowerment … the WEAI. The WEAI can also be used more generally to assess the state of empowerment and gender parity in agriculture, to … five domains of empowerment (5DE) in agriculture. It reflects the percentage of women who are empowered and, among those …
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environment and increased investments in agriculture at a time when African governments and donors have been rallying to increase … their support to agriculture. Is African agriculture undergoing a new and sustained recovery after many decades of stagnant … policy environment and increased attention to agriculture has had a major effect on overall productivity growth based on …
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