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Gender, Time Use, and Change : The Impact of the Cut Flower Industry in Ecuador

Newman, Constance - In: The World Bank Economic Review 16 (2002) 3, pp. 375-393

This article uses survey data from Ecuador to examine the effects of women's employment on the allocation of paid and unpaid labor within the household. I compare a region with high demand for female labor with a similar region in which demand for female labor is low. The comparison suggests...

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Grandmothers and Granddaughters : Old-Age Pensions and Intrahousehold Allocation in South Africa

Duflo, Esther - In: The World Bank Economic Review 17 (2003) 1, pp. 1-25

investigates whether the gender of the recipient affects that impact. In the early 1990s the benefits and coverage of the South …. This suggests that the efficiency of public transfer programs may depend on the gender of the recipient. …

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Disability, Poverty, and Schooling in Developing Countries : Results from 14 Household Surveys

Filmer, Deon - In: The World Bank Economic Review 22 (2008) 1, pp. 141-163

than deficits related to other characteristics, such as gender, rural residence, or economic status differentials. The …

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Globalization and the Gender Wage Gap

H. Oostendorp, Remco - In: The World Bank Economic Review 23 (2009) 1, pp. 141-161

gender wage gap, but little is known about the actual impact, except for some country studies. This study contributes to the … literature in three respects. First, it is a large cross-country study of the impact of globalization on the gender wage gap … world. Third, it focuses on the within-occupation gender wage gap, an alternative to the commonly used raw and residual wage …

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The Determinants of Funding to Ugandan Nongovernmental Organizations

Fafchamps, Marcel; Owens, Trudy - In: The World Bank Economic Review 23 (2009) 2, pp. 295-321

Original Ugandan data collected by the authors are used to examine the determinants of funding to local nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). Success in attracting grants from international donors depends mostly on network effects. NGOs that raise in-kind resources locally tend to be young and...

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Disability and Poverty in Vietnam

Mont, Daniel; Cuon, Nguyen Viet - In: The World Bank Economic Review 25 (2011) 2, pp. 323-359

Disability is significantly correlated with poverty in Vietnam, according to data from the 2006 Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey, especially when the extra costs of living with a disability are taken into account. This disability-poverty link is also associated with lower educational...

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Does a Picture Paint a Thousand Words? : Evidence from a Microcredit Marketing Experiment

Giné, Xavier; Mansuri, Ghazala; Picón, Mario - In: The World Bank Economic Review 25 (2011) 3, pp. 508-542

Female entrepreneurship is low in many developing economies partly due to constraints on women's time and mobility, often reinforced by social norms. We analyze a marketing experiment designed to encourage female uptake of a new microcredit product. A brochure with two different covers was...

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Collective Action and Community Development: Evidence from Self-Help Groups in Rural India

Desai, Raj M.; Joshi, Shareen - In: The World Bank Economic Review 28 (2014) 3, pp. 492-524

In response to the problems of high coordination costs among the poor, efforts are underway in many countries to organize the poor through “self-help groups” (SHGs)–membership-based organizations that aim to promote social cohesion through a mixture of education, access to finance, and...

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Gender and Public Goods Provision in Tamil Nadu's Village Governments

Gajwani, Kiran; Zhang, Xiaobo - In: The World Bank Economic Review 29 (2015) 2, pp. 234-261

women and whether the gender of village government leaders influences the provision of village public goods. A knowledge …

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Gender and the Business Environment for New Firm Creation

Klapper, Leora F.; Parker, Simon C. - In: World Bank Research Observer 26 (2011) 2, pp. 237-257

The authors summarize the extant literature on the relationship between gender and entrepreneurship. They note … significant quantitative gender differences in business entry, with male-owned firms heavily prevailing over firms owned by women … services rather than capital intensive manufacturing industries. They also observe certain gender differentials in business …

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