Do Female Education and Ownership of Asset Matter for Poverty Reduction in Nepal?
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Poverty; Female Ownership of Assets; Female Literacy Rate;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I32 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
- J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
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