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This paper examines the impact of foreign aid on gender equality in education outcomes in developing countries … indicate that aggregate aid disbursements to the education sector negatively affect gender parity in enrolment at the secondary … and tertiary education levels and have no impact on gender parity in primary education. No impact of subsector specific …
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higher levels of education (there are 30 times as many schools offering grade 1 than grade 12) and receives education of a … quality, by gender, geography and parental socio-economic status. Survey and census data measure attainment and access, while … a grade-3 Portuguese test and 2007 SACMEQ tests measure quality. While the gender gap in access has been closed, large …
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Education is associated with a range of positive micro and macro effects. It is hence no surprise that donors have … recently increased the amount of official development aid specifically focused on restoring and maintaining education in less … geographical proximity to aid projects by combining individual-level information on education from six Nigerian Demographic and …
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-discrimination measures in education. An analysis of trends in inequalities in human development is used to identify three countries that have … education has been taken up politically. …
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/urban groups. While there has been an improvement in horizontal inequality in education, this paper shows little change in other …
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observables. We find that the gender wage gap is smaller among formal wage employees and the gap decreases as education level … influenced by gender, it is appropriate to account for this double selection process. This study uses the latest household survey … in Ghana to estimate gender wage gaps by correcting for this double selection process. We find that the average total …
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This paper analyses the impact of trade liberalization on local labour markets in Ethiopia, with a focus on the gender …
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This paper investigates the evolution of the gender wage gap in South Africa, using the 1993-2015 Post-Apartheid Labour …-paying industries However, the median gender wage gap is substantial at 23-35 per cent. This is unexplained by differences in human …
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This study seeks to determine the effect on the gender employment gap and women's employment of the extension of … extensions of maternity leave and the gender employment gap in Viet Nam. The findings show that, on average, the new law did not … exacerbate the gender employment gap, and there was a narrowing of the gap in the formal jobs sector compared to the waged jobs …
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Gender gaps in labour force participation in developing countries persist despite income growth or structural change … across the rural-urban gradient. The gender gap increases with connectivity from rural to peri-urban areas, and disappears in … high-density urban areas. In non-rural areas, child dependency does not constrain young women, and secondary education …
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