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82 publications found, searching for 'Gender '

• One-Pager No. 11
  August 05, 2011

  Investing in Social Care Delivery

  Rania Antonopoulos, Ajit Zacharias, Thomas Masterson, and Kijong Kim
  Abstract

  There is little mystery to explaining our current high levels of unemployment. The Bureau of Economic Analysis recently revised its figures on GDP growth, and revealed that not only was…more

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• Working Paper No. 671
  May 19, 2011

  Public Job-creation Programs: The Economic Benefits of Investing in Social Care

  Rania Antonopoulos and Kijong Kim
  Abstract

  This paper demonstrates the strong impacts that public job creation in social care provisioning has on employment creation. Furthermore, it shows that mobilizing underutilized domestic labor resources and targeting them…more

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• Working Paper No. 621
  September 25, 2010

  Gendered Aspects of Globalization

  Sunanda Sen
  Abstract

  We need to go beyond the accepted notions relating to the role of women in the economy and society, especially in terms of what is recognized in mainstream theory and…more

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• Working Paper No. 598
  May 17, 2010

  The Economic and Financial Crises in CEE and CIS

  Fatma Gül Unal, Mirjana Dokmanovic, and Rafis Abazov
  Abstract

  This paper looks at the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), where economies have been most dramatically hit by the global crisis…more

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• Working Paper No. 590
  March 10, 2010

  Determining Gender Equity in Fiscal Federalism: Analytical Issues and Empirical Evidence from India

  Lekha S. Chakraborty
  Abstract

  Despite the policy realm’s growing recognition of fiscal devolution in gender development, there have been relatively few attempts to translate gender commitments into fiscal commitments. This paper aims to engage…more

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• Working Paper No. 577
  September 21, 2009

  Explaining the Gender Wage Gap in Georgia

  Tamar Khitarishvili
  Abstract

  This paper evaluates gender wage differentials in Georgia between 2000 and 2004. Using ordinary least squares, we find that the gender wage gap in Georgia is substantially higher than in…more

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• Working Paper No. 572
  August 13, 2009

  The Unequal Burden of Poverty on Time Use

  Emel Memiş and Burca Kizilirmak
  Abstract

  This study uses the first time-use survey carried out in South Africa (2000) to examine women’s and men’s time use, with a focus on the impacts of income poverty. We…more

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• Working Paper No. 570
  July 23, 2009

  From Unpaid to Paid Care Work

  Rania Antonopoulos and Taun Toay
  Abstract

  This paper considers public employment guarantee programs in the context of South Africa as a means to address the nexus of poverty, unemployment, and unpaid work burdens—all factors exacerbated by…more

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• Working Paper No. 562
  May 08, 2009

  The Current Economic and Financial Crisis

  Rania Antonopoulos
  Abstract

  Widespread economic recessions and protracted financial crises have been documented as setting back gender equality and other development goals in the past. In the midst of the current global crisis—often…more

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• Working Paper No. 550
  November 20, 2008

  An Empirical Analysis of Gender Bias in Education Spending in Paraguay

  Thomas Masterson
  Abstract

  Gender affects household spending in two areas that have been widely studied in the literature. One strand documents that greater female bargaining power within households results in a variety of…more

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