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    Explaining low employment rates among older women in urban China

    Institute for Fiscal Studies, London, 2017
    In China, the employment rate among middle-aged and older urban residents is exceptionally low. For example, 27% of 55-64-year-old urban women were in work in 2013, compared to more than 50% in UK, Thailand and Philippines.
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    Post - 2015 Development Agenda - India National Consultation Report: Women’s Associations Constituency

    Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2013
    The National Women’s Empowerment Mission (NWEM), as the convener of the women’s associations, organised consultations where conscious effort was made to ensure participation from the most marginalised communities including dalits, tribals, and Muslim women, the urban poor and other stakeholders.
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    Men, masculinity, and community development in Kenyan slums

    African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya, 2014
    The field of men’s studies has been remarkably productive in generating new conversations and insights in relation to community development. But the bulk of existing research has ignored men’s direct views of manliness in relation to community development.
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    Urban development: structured learning guide

    Evidence on Demand, 2014
    The purpose of this booklet is to support advisers in DFID to strengthen their knowledge of urban development themes by providing signposts to quality assured references, grey literature and other useful learning materials.
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    Timing and sequencing of events marking the transition to adulthood in two informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya

    African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya, 2011
    Young people living in poor urban informal settlements face unique challenges as they transition to adulthood.
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    Women, poverty and adverse maternal outcomes in Nairobi, Kenya - Women-poverty-and-adverse-maternal-outcomes

    African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya, 2010
    The link between poverty and adverse maternal outcomes has been studied largely by means of quantitative data. We explore poor urban Kenyan women’s views and lived experiences of the relationship between economic disadvantage and unpleasant maternal outcomes.
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    Gender and urban poverty in South Asia: proceedings report of the 2012 subregional workshop

    Asian Development Bank, 2013
    This report is the product of a sub-regional workshop on Gender and Urban Poverty in South Asia. The report highlights key gender issues in urban development and lessons learned from good practices that are achieving both gender equality results and sustainable urban development outcomes.
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    Human rights of older persons in india - a national study

    Agewell Foundation, 2011
    The population of India has approximately tripled during the last 50 years, but the number of elderly Indians has increased more than fourfold.  Better medical facilities, care and liberal family planning policies made the elderly the fastest growing section of the society in India - average life expectancy has also gone up to over 70 years today.
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    Poverty and children's schooling in urban and rural Senegal

    Population Council, USA, 2005
    This paper examines the effects of living-standards and relative poverty on children’s schooling in urban and rural areas of Senegal.Findings include:in Senegal’s urban areas, living standards exert substantial influence on three measures of schooling: whether a child has ever attended school; whether he or she has completed at least four grades of primary school; and whether he or she
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    Women and work mobility: some disquieting evidences from the Indian data

    Centre for Development Studies, Kerala, India, 2004
    This paper examines the perpetuation of sex segregation of jobs, in the context of globalisation in the 1990s in India. The author finds:horizontal segregation indicated by the index of dissimilarity has declined during the period 1987-88 and 1993-94 in urban areas but has increased slightly in rural areas.

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