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Women and development : objectives, frameworks, and policy interventions

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  • Schultz, T. Paul

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The contribution of women to an economy is in principle no different from that of men. But in practice, the problems of valuation, measurement, and policy inference are more complex and the implications for policy may be more controversial and culturally sensitive. This paper finds that the private and social returns are high on investments to improve women's economic productivity - particularly education. Where women recieve less education than men, efforts to redress that imbalance deserve priority. Measures to open women's access to information, technology, productive resources, and credit should be tested far more extensively.

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  • Schultz, T. Paul, 1989. "Women and development : objectives, frameworks, and policy interventions," Policy Research Working Paper Series 200, The World Bank.
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    1. Appleton, Simon, "undated". "User Fees, Expenditure Restructuring and Voucher Systems in Education," WIDER Working Papers 295459, United Nations University, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    2. Richard H. Sabot, 1992. "Human Capital Accumulation in Post Green Revolution Rural Pakistan: A Progress Report," The Pakistan Development Review, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, vol. 31(4), pages 449-490.
    3. Saito, Katrine A. & Weidemann, C. Jean, 1990. "Agricultural extension for women farmers in Africa," Policy Research Working Paper Series 398, The World Bank.
    4. Khandker, Shahidur R., 1990. "Labor market participation, returns to education, and male - female wage differences in Peru," Policy Research Working Paper Series 461, The World Bank.
    5. Luis García & Sara Sánchez, 2020. "Acerca de la relación entre el gasto por alumno y los retornos a la educación en el Perú: un análisis por cohortes," Documentos de Trabajo / Working Papers 2020-482, Departamento de Economía - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.

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