Gender, Growth, and Poverty Reduction
This note focuses on the core findings, and recommendations of the 1998 status report on poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), prepared for the Special Program for Assistance for Africa (SPA), a thematic examination of the linkages between gender, g...
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okr-10986-98732021-04-23T14:02:47Z Gender, Growth, and Poverty Reduction Blackden, C. Mark AGED AGRICULTURE CAPITA GROWTH CASE STUDIES CASE STUDY CIVIL SOCIETY CROPS ECONOMIC GROWTH EMPLOYMENT EQUALITY EXTENSION FARMERS FEMALES FINANCIAL SERVICES FOOD POLICY RESEARCH FOOD STORAGE GENDER GENDER DISPARITIES GIRLS GROWTH RATE HEALTH PROBLEMS HEALTH SERVICES HOUSEHOLD HEAD HOUSEHOLD STRUCTURE HOUSEHOLD SURVEY HUMAN CAPITAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INCOME INCOMES LABOR PRODUCTIVITY MARKETING MORTALITY POLICY WORK POLITICAL PARTICIPATION POOR HOUSEHOLDS POPULATION GROWTH POSITIVE EXTERNALITIES POVERTY REDUCTION POVERTY REDUCTION POLICY POVERTY STATUS PRIMARY EDUCATION PRODUCTIVE ASSETS PUBLIC POLICY PUBLIC SERVICES RESEARCH INSTITUTE RESOURCE ALLOCATION SOCIAL CAPITAL SOCIAL POLICY SOILS WATER SUPPLY POVERTY REDUCTION GENDER INEQUALITY HUMAN CAPITAL GIRLS' EDUCATION WOMEN'S HEALTH ACCESS TO CREDIT FINANCIAL SERVICES WOMEN'S PARTICIPATION SOCIAL CAPITAL PUBLIC POLICY HOUSEHOLD DATA ECONOMIC GROWTH ASSET RATIO This note focuses on the core findings, and recommendations of the 1998 status report on poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), prepared for the Special Program for Assistance for Africa (SPA), a thematic examination of the linkages between gender, growth, and poverty reduction in SSA. Primarily focused on agriculture, and the rural sector, the report argues that one of the factors constraining growth, and poverty in SSA is gender inequality in the access to, and control of a diverse range of assets. The note reviews the determinants of growth, and the interdependence of the market, and household economies, where much of women's productive work is unrecorded, (in Kenya, about sixty percent of female activities are unaccounted for, compared with only twenty four percent of male activities). Furthermore, micro-level analyses portray a consistent picture of gender-based asset inequality, pointing at patterns of disadvantage faced by women, in accessing the basic assets, and resources required for a full participation in SSA's growth potential. In education, although girls have made rapid strides in completing primary education, lowering the gender gap, differentials persist due to social, and cultural factors; and, in health, an enormous gender differential in the region's sexual, and reproductive burden of disease, is observed, as measured by deaths, and disability-adjusted life years. Recommendations include women's budget initiatives, sustained investments in education/health, and, raising the visibility of domestic work in national statistics. 2012-08-13T09:45:49Z 2012-08-13T09:45:49Z 1999-02 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/1999/02/1121201/gender-growth-poverty-reduction http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9873 English Africa Region Findings & Good Practice Infobriefs; No. 129 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Brief Publications & Research Africa |
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AGED AGRICULTURE CAPITA GROWTH CASE STUDIES CASE STUDY CIVIL SOCIETY CROPS ECONOMIC GROWTH EMPLOYMENT EQUALITY EXTENSION FARMERS FEMALES FINANCIAL SERVICES FOOD POLICY RESEARCH FOOD STORAGE GENDER GENDER DISPARITIES GIRLS GROWTH RATE HEALTH PROBLEMS HEALTH SERVICES HOUSEHOLD HEAD HOUSEHOLD STRUCTURE HOUSEHOLD SURVEY HUMAN CAPITAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INCOME INCOMES LABOR PRODUCTIVITY MARKETING MORTALITY POLICY WORK POLITICAL PARTICIPATION POOR HOUSEHOLDS POPULATION GROWTH POSITIVE EXTERNALITIES POVERTY REDUCTION POVERTY REDUCTION POLICY POVERTY STATUS PRIMARY EDUCATION PRODUCTIVE ASSETS PUBLIC POLICY PUBLIC SERVICES RESEARCH INSTITUTE RESOURCE ALLOCATION SOCIAL CAPITAL SOCIAL POLICY SOILS WATER SUPPLY POVERTY REDUCTION GENDER INEQUALITY HUMAN CAPITAL GIRLS' EDUCATION WOMEN'S HEALTH ACCESS TO CREDIT FINANCIAL SERVICES WOMEN'S PARTICIPATION SOCIAL CAPITAL PUBLIC POLICY HOUSEHOLD DATA ECONOMIC GROWTH ASSET RATIO |
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AGED AGRICULTURE CAPITA GROWTH CASE STUDIES CASE STUDY CIVIL SOCIETY CROPS ECONOMIC GROWTH EMPLOYMENT EQUALITY EXTENSION FARMERS FEMALES FINANCIAL SERVICES FOOD POLICY RESEARCH FOOD STORAGE GENDER GENDER DISPARITIES GIRLS GROWTH RATE HEALTH PROBLEMS HEALTH SERVICES HOUSEHOLD HEAD HOUSEHOLD STRUCTURE HOUSEHOLD SURVEY HUMAN CAPITAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INCOME INCOMES LABOR PRODUCTIVITY MARKETING MORTALITY POLICY WORK POLITICAL PARTICIPATION POOR HOUSEHOLDS POPULATION GROWTH POSITIVE EXTERNALITIES POVERTY REDUCTION POVERTY REDUCTION POLICY POVERTY STATUS PRIMARY EDUCATION PRODUCTIVE ASSETS PUBLIC POLICY PUBLIC SERVICES RESEARCH INSTITUTE RESOURCE ALLOCATION SOCIAL CAPITAL SOCIAL POLICY SOILS WATER SUPPLY POVERTY REDUCTION GENDER INEQUALITY HUMAN CAPITAL GIRLS' EDUCATION WOMEN'S HEALTH ACCESS TO CREDIT FINANCIAL SERVICES WOMEN'S PARTICIPATION SOCIAL CAPITAL PUBLIC POLICY HOUSEHOLD DATA ECONOMIC GROWTH ASSET RATIO Blackden, C. Mark Gender, Growth, and Poverty Reduction |
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Africa Region Findings & Good Practice Infobriefs; No. 129 |
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This note focuses on the core findings,
and recommendations of the 1998 status report on poverty in
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), prepared for the Special Program
for Assistance for Africa (SPA), a thematic examination of
the linkages between gender, growth, and poverty reduction
in SSA. Primarily focused on agriculture, and the rural
sector, the report argues that one of the factors
constraining growth, and poverty in SSA is gender inequality
in the access to, and control of a diverse range of assets.
The note reviews the determinants of growth, and the
interdependence of the market, and household economies,
where much of women's productive work is unrecorded,
(in Kenya, about sixty percent of female activities are
unaccounted for, compared with only twenty four percent of
male activities). Furthermore, micro-level analyses portray
a consistent picture of gender-based asset inequality,
pointing at patterns of disadvantage faced by women, in
accessing the basic assets, and resources required for a
full participation in SSA's growth potential. In
education, although girls have made rapid strides in
completing primary education, lowering the gender gap,
differentials persist due to social, and cultural factors;
and, in health, an enormous gender differential in the
region's sexual, and reproductive burden of disease, is
observed, as measured by deaths, and disability-adjusted
life years. Recommendations include women's budget
initiatives, sustained investments in education/health, and,
raising the visibility of domestic work in national statistics. |
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Blackden, C. Mark |
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Blackden, C. Mark |
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Blackden, C. Mark |
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Gender, Growth, and Poverty Reduction |
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Gender, Growth, and Poverty Reduction |
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Gender, Growth, and Poverty Reduction |
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Gender, Growth, and Poverty Reduction |
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Gender, Growth, and Poverty Reduction |
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gender, growth, and poverty reduction |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2012 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/1999/02/1121201/gender-growth-poverty-reduction http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9873 |
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