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Mobile money and investment by women businesses in Sub-Saharan Africa
Islam, Asif; Muzi, Silvia - 2020
This study connects two important findings in Sub-Saharan Africa. First, digital technologies such as mobile money have become widespread and have increased investment by businesses, especially in East Africa. Second, women-owned business in the region significantly lag their male counterparts...
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Discriminatory environment, firms’ discriminatory behavior, and women’s employment in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Hyland, Marie; Islam, Asif; Muzi, Silvia - 2020
This paper contributes to better understanding firms' discriminatory behavior in the presence of gender-based legal …
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Effects of a multi-faceted education program on enrollment, equity, learning, and school management : evidence from India
Delavallade, Clara; Griffith, Alan; Thornton, Rebecca L. - 2019
The Sustainable Development Goals set a triple educational objective: improve access to, quality of, and gender equity ….7 percent in the second), reducing gender gaps in school retention. The findings show large learning gains of 0.323 standard … gender. There were also large effects on school management outcomes, increasing the number of meetings by 16 percent and the …
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Managing risk with insurance and savings : experimental evidence for male and female farm managers in the Sahel
Delavallade, Clara; Dizon, Felipe; Hill, Ruth Vargas; … - 2015
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Paid maternity leave and female employment : evidence using firm-level survey data for developing countries
Amin, Mohammed; Islam, Asif - 2019
The relationship between the length of paid maternity leave and the proportion of female workers in the private sector is explored using firm-level survey data for 66 mostly developing countries. The paper finds a large, positive, and statistically significant relationship between the two....
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