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    Micro-credit as a strategy for poverty alleviation among women entrepreneurs in Nasarawa State, Nigeria

    2015
    All over the world, poor people are routinely excluded from the formal finance system, ranging from full exclusion in developing countries, to partial exclusion even in developed countries. This fact contributes to making poverty a major development challenge, with one often touted solution being that of providing access to micro-loans.
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    Literacy and education for sustainable development and women’s empowerment

    UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, 2013
    That women comprise two-thirds of the world’s non-literate population has been a matter of concern for the development sectors for decades. Despite a number of high-profile literacy initiatives and interventions, the gender disparity is persisting in many countries, leading UNESCO to publish this report examining the ways in which literacy is approached with regard to development.
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    Inequality, poverty among Nigeria women and youth and the challenges of inclusive growth in post-2015 Millenium Development Goals

    International Journal of Development and Sustainability, 2015
    Economic growth is the primary driver of poverty reduction. Yet in Nigeria, despite a decade of significant growth and bountiful natural resources, 67% of the population were estimated to live in abject poverty in 2011, while wealth inequality grew.
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    In-service training policy in Korea

    Korea Development Institute, 2014
    As the importance of training In-Service workers was emphasized in the late 1980s, the standard for imposing the training obligation was changed from the number of employees to the total payroll. However, In-Service worker training did not get much attention before the Asian financial crisis struck in the late 1990s.
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    Gender equality as a pathway for sustainable development: lessons learned in Eastern and Southern Africa

    Center for International Forestry Research, 2015
    In order to advance sustainable development in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), it is necessary to address cross-cutting issues on gender, environment, and climate change simultaneously. Despite this, a key challenge remains in ensuring that such integrated approaches are prioritised and implemented in national, sector, and local budgets.
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    Gender-focused, community-led development in rural Africa: The Hunger Project’s Epicenter Strategy

    2015
    The Hunger Project is a global, non-profit organisation committed to the sustainable end to world hunger.
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    Empowering drylands women

    Drylands Development Centre, UNDP, 2014
    The Integrated Drylands Development Programme (IDDP) is a global UNDP initiative to promote sustainable development in the drylands, and advance the implementation of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification. This topic brief highlights the important role that gender plays in this context of sustainable development, in particular the role of women in the Arab States and Africa.
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    Gender and water policies in Africa: synthesis report

    Global Water Partnership, 2015
    This study examines the extent to which the African Ministers Council on Water (AMCOW) gender policy and strategy has been implemented in national states and transboundary river basin agreements across Africa.
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    Women and health: the key for sustainable development

    The Lancet, 2015
    The health of women and girls is currently in an era of transition; significant improvements have occurred in the last few decades, but there are still important unmet needs, and challenging trends related to aging demographics and population growth.
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    Emigration of women domestic workers from Kerala: gender, state policy and the politics of movement

    Centre for Development Studies, Swansea, 2011
    Restrictions imposed by the Government of India on the emigration of women in ‘unskilled’ categories such as domestic work are framed as measures intended to protect women from exploitation.

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