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Reviews the evidence on health expenditure during the 1980s and early 1990s and looks at policy responses to chronic funding difficulties. Examines how gender may influence the outcome when implementing a commonly adopted policy with regard to user charges for health services. Looks at Zimbabwe's experience with user charges and proposes a simple theoretical framework that captures key aspects of the household's response to the increasing cost of health care.
Despite recent advances in important aspects of the lives of girls and women, pervasive challenges remain. These challenges reflect widespread deprivations and constraints and include epidemic levels of gender-based violence and discriminatory laws and norms that prevent women from owning property, being educated, and making meaningful decisions about their own lives--such as whether and when to marry or have children. These often violate their most basic rights and are magnified and multiplied by poverty and lack of education. This groundbreaking book distills vast data and hundreds of studies to shed new light on deprivations and constraints facing the voice and agency of women and girls w...
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This report seeks to collectively evaluate the findings of the individual poverty assessments carried out by the World Bank since the beginning of the 1990s. It assesses the extent, nature, and causes of poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa and examines the various strategies developed to address those issues.
This book offers a comprehensive examination of the key labor market issues facing Tunisia, including the size, structure, and evolution of the labor force, employment and unemployment, wage formation, gender differences, education, and migration.
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This book explores the issue of gender inequality through the lens of the Millennium Development Goals, particularly the first one of halving world poverty by 2015.