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    Africa’s youth employment challenge: new perspectives | IDS Bulletin Vol 48, No 3

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2017
    Youth and employment concepts are not new to development discourse in sub-Saharan Africa but over the last decade interest has increased dramatically, becoming a much more important focus for policy, intervention and research throughout the continent (and globally).
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    Work, family and public policy changes in Latin America: equity, maternalism and co-responsibility

    United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2014
    Taking account of the substantial increase in female labour market participation that has occurred throughout the Latin American region, this article describes policies adopted with the aim of reconciling work and family responsibilities between 2003 and 2013, and the implications of their design for socioeconomic and gender equity.
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    The policy development process and the agenda for effective institutions: the Philippines

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2007
    A developing economy such as the Philippines has to create an enabling environment for economic growth and development. But how does one nudge forward the creation of such an environment? This paper departs from the usual discourse on the need for effective implementing institutions.
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    Assessing the resilience of ASEAN banking systems

    2012
    Since the global financial crisis in 2008/09 there has been heightened concern about the resilience of banking systems in Southeast Asia. This paper proposes a methodology that uses a macroprudential perspective to assess the resilience of banking systems in member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
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    Poverty and agriculture in the Philippines: trends in income poverty and distribution

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2012
    Poverty incidence in the Philippines is rising based on the national official data released by the National Statistical Coordination Board. Poverty incidence among population rose from 24.9 percent in 2003 to 26.4 percent in 2006 and then inched up further to 26.5 percent in 2009.
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    A note on economic growth, inequality, and poverty in the Philippines

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2011
    Notable literature on the poverty and growth nexus for the Philippines point out that growth alone is not sufficient to lift the poor out of poverty.
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    Employment of persons with disabilities (PWDs) in the Philippines: the case of Metro Manila and Rosario, Batangas

    2013
    Persons with disability (PWDs) are among the vulnerable groups in the country that need utmost attention from the government. This is perhaps the reason why the institutional and legal environment has been made favorable to this particular group, especially in the area of employment. However, earlier reports note that the quality of employment of PWDs still needs improvement.
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    The effect of information technology on wage inequality: evidence from Indian manufacturing sector

    Centre for Development Studies, Kerala, India, 2010
    A persistent widening of skill based wage inequality in the Indian Organised Manufacturing sector has been reported by many researchers. Two main hypotheses had been tested in developed economies to explain such a phenomenon; an inter-sectoral shift in demand structure and an intra-sectoral shift in production technology.
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    The contribution of female health to economic development

    Program on the Global Demography of Aging at Harvard University, 2015
    This paper analyses the economic consequences for less developed countries of investing in female health. In so doing it introduces a novel micro-founded dynamic general equilibrium framework in which parents trade off the number of children against investments in their education and in which the authors allow for health-related gender di¤erences in productivity.
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    Access to finance: mind the gender gap

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2015
    Studies on financial inclusion have so far focused on assessing determinants to overall access to finance, but limited attention has been given to financial inclusion from a gender point of view, and on the gaps that separate females and males with regards to their access to the opportunities and services provided by the financial sector.

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