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    Gender Budget Initiative in India?Education Sector Insights

    BRIDGE, 2002
    This presentation was given at a DFID seminar entitled 'Gender Budgeting' in July 2002. It outlines gender budgeting efforts in India at the National and State levels. Case studies from the education sector are provided.
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    Moving the Goalposts: Gender and Globalisation in the Twenty-first Century

    Oxfam, 2000
    The ability to grasp the best opportunities brought about by the expansion of global trade and production are determined by women and men's different degrees of freedom to take on waged employment and their level of skills and training, including literacy. Women (and men) who have responsibilities for unpaid reproductive work are constrained in pursuing waged employment.
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    Women in Uzbekistan: Country Briefing Paper

    2001
    The economic transition in Uzbekistan has brought about worrisome trends in women's socio-economic status: the feminization of poverty, including higher levels of women's unemployment, deteriorating health and education status of women due mainly to the increasing cost of social services and other socio- economic factors.
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    Women in Nepal: Country Briefing Paper

    1999
    In spite of significant gains Nepalese women remain at the lower end of the scale in South Asia in terms of the human development index and the gender development index. Problems are exacerbated by an increase in trafficking and the feminisation of agriculture.
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    Women in Malaysia: Country Briefing Paper

    Asian Development Bank, 1998
    This paper deals with the socioeconomic status of Malaysian women. It provides an analysis of the recent trends of the female labour force participation, the areas where the female labour force is concentrated at present, and gender differentials in wages. It makes recommendations to improve women's status through their participation in economic development.
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    The effect of early childhood development programs on women's labor force participation and older children's schooling in Kenya

    Gendernet, World Bank, 2000
    Early Childhood Development (ECD) centres have grown rapidly in number since Kenya's independence in 1963. The effectiveness of ECD investment is usually based on the school achievement and cognitive ability of ECD graduates. Little is known about the indirect benefits of ECD on the welfare of households.
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    Situaci¢n de las Mujeres en Am?rica Latina y el Caribe

    United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 1998
    Gender profiles for all countries in Latin America and the Caribbean are available on the ECLAC (Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean) website managed by its gender unit. Each profile is relevant to a specific country and is composed of quantitative data concerning population and health, education, household and the family, employment, income and political participation.
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    BRIDGE Report 6: Gender and Development in Namibia: a country study

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 1992
    How is a Namibian woman disadvantaged' How can these inequalities be addressed' This report analyses gender discrimination in agriculture, access to land, urban formal and informal employment, education, and health, with particular focus on the black population.
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    BRIDGE Report 9: Women and Development in Laos

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 1993
    How does the position of Lao women compare with that of Lao men' What further steps are required to advance their status and promote gender equality' Lao women's concerns were formally addressed by the national government for the first time in 1975, when the Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP) came into power.
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    BRIDGE Report 19: Background Paper on Gender Issues in Ghana

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 1994
    How much autonomy do women in Ghana have' Does this equal that of men' Women in West Africa, and in particular Ghana, are often assumed to enjoy a greater degree of personal and economic independence than women in other parts of Sub- Saharan Africa.

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