Women’s Role in Economic Development: Overcoming the Constraints BACKGROUND RESEARCH PAPER Sarah Bradshaw, Joshua Castellino and Bineta Diop Submitted to the High Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda This paper reflects the views of the author and does not represent the views of the Panel. It is provided as background research for the HLP Report, one of many inputs to the process. May 2013 Women’s role in economic development: Overcoming the constraints Background paper
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Although aspects, such as population growth, health and education were emphasized almost a hundred years ago, for decades some developing countries are still not doing good at their economic development in terms of population growth, health and education. In 2013, the world has a population of about 7.2 billion, and at the same time, it was expected that population would rise by 0.9 billion in 2025 and reach 9.6 billion approximately by the year 2050. Will a developing country become a developed
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by the end of 2011, the global investment fund industry was worth US $11.7 trillion which translates to 17 percent of primary securities holdings around the world. However, recent events in international financial markets and the prevailing global economic conditions have made the investment environment increasingly uncertain and more difficult to predict for fund investors. Since most investors are risk averse, this situation has impacted negatively on the flow of funds to investment schemes. On the
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Patriotic History? • The opposition’s use of history 5 5 6 6 8 CHAPTER 2: History in secondary and higher education 11 History curriculum development in Zimbabwe’s secondary schools and higher education institutions, and the implications for reconciliation, national healing and transitional justice • The growth in education since independence • History in secondary schools • History in higher education • A review of the NASS syllabus 11 11 14 17 CHAPTER 3: Teaching history 23 Challenges of teaching
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social expenditures other than those in education continue to remain low. Further, the current pattern of fiscal decentralisation does not seem to be effective in addressing the existing disparities. JEL Classification H 200; H 500; H 700 Key Words Indonesia, fiscal policy, public finance, inequality, taxation, revenue, government expenditure, financial liberalisation, IMF debt conditionalities, decentralisation Smitha Francis is Principal Economist, Economic Research Foundation, New Delhi. Email
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1.1 Economic background of Singapore Singapore had established a much stronger and diversified economy in the early 1980’s, and which gave it an economic importance in South-east Asia. Government plan the realigning industrial activities from the traditional labour-intensive, low-wage activities to capital-intensive, high-wage and high-technology activities during the first half of the 1980s. However, Singapore’s economy declined in year 1895 and this is the first time in 20 years. One
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Introduction The U.S. economy is currently experiencing its worst crisis since the Great Depression. The crisis started in the home mortgage market, especially the market for so-called “subprime” mortgages, and is now spreading beyond subprime to prime mortgages, commercial real estate, corporate junk bonds, and other forms of debt. Total losses of U.S. banks could reach as high as one-third of the total bank capital. The crisis has led to a sharp reduction in bank lending, which in turn is causing
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Latvia: Education and Women’s Rights Latvia is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe, which is bordered to the north by Estonia and to the south Lithuania. Latvia is the size of the state of West Virginia with a population of 2.3 million people, with 49% living in urban areas, 38% living in rural areas and the last 13% living in intermediate areas. Latvia has a republic political system and the lives of those living are struggling to make ends meet. Although Latvia is struggling with
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Global marketing: marketing activities in multiple country markets are coordinated and integrated. Foreign marketing: loosely refers to marketing a product in a market outside the home market. International Marketing Environments Global Economic Environment Cultural Environment International Marketing Global Competitive Environment Political/Regulatory Environment Systems Global Systems Global Financial Systems International Monetary Systems and Foreign Exchange
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After the Great Depression, Unstated States had 40 years or economic growth without a single financial crisis. One of the main reasons of that achievement was that the financial sector was tightly regulated. Investment banks were small private partnerships. Thus, the money cycle was carefully observed. One of the few financial innovations was introduced in the 1970s when the Government National Association (Ginnie Mae) put together the first mortgage-backed securities (Mihm & Roubini, 2010).
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