How fair is workfare?: gender, public works, and employment in rural Ethiopia
...Workfare programmes have been used across Asia, Africa, and Latin America to provide the poor with income transfers, help them cope with income shocks, and create assets by constructing much-needed infrastructure—which, once built, can continue to generate employment. Recently, policymakers have...
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International Food Policy Research Institute
2005
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| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/160586 |
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| author | Quisumbing, Agnes R. |
| author_browse | Quisumbing, Agnes R. |
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| description | ...Workfare programmes have been used across Asia, Africa, and Latin America to provide the poor with income transfers, help them cope with income shocks, and create assets by constructing much-needed infrastructure—which, once built, can continue to generate employment. Recently, policymakers have begun paying attention to gender issues in workfare programmes... The authors of this brief used the Ethiopian Rural Household Survey (ERHS) to explore gender dimensions of public works programmes... The ERHS results imply that food for-work programmes have a number of levers to increase the participation of women. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1605862025-04-08T18:27:13Z How fair is workfare?: gender, public works, and employment in rural Ethiopia Quisumbing, Agnes R. rural areas income transfers public works employment ...Workfare programmes have been used across Asia, Africa, and Latin America to provide the poor with income transfers, help them cope with income shocks, and create assets by constructing much-needed infrastructure—which, once built, can continue to generate employment. Recently, policymakers have begun paying attention to gender issues in workfare programmes... The authors of this brief used the Ethiopian Rural Household Survey (ERHS) to explore gender dimensions of public works programmes... The ERHS results imply that food for-work programmes have a number of levers to increase the participation of women. 2005 2024-11-21T09:51:14Z 2024-11-21T09:51:14Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/160586 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute World Food Programme Quisumbing, Agnes R. How fair is workfare? gender, public works, and employment in rural Ethiopia. Linking Research and Action: strengthening food assistance and food policy research -- IFPRI/WFP brief. International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); World Food Programme (WFP). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/160586 |
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| title | How fair is workfare?: gender, public works, and employment in rural Ethiopia |
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| title_full_unstemmed | How fair is workfare?: gender, public works, and employment in rural Ethiopia |
| title_short | How fair is workfare?: gender, public works, and employment in rural Ethiopia |
| title_sort | how fair is workfare gender public works and employment in rural ethiopia |
| topic | rural areas income transfers public works employment |
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