Gender inequality

Poverty and inequality are among the most discussed topics in Economics. This thesis aims to investigate the empirical relationship between financial inclusion, poverty and gender inequality. Using unique cross-country panel and survey data sets, three hypotheses are tested: (1) microfinance is an effective tool for poverty reduction; (2) women’s participation in microfinance contributes to improvements in gender equality; and (3) financial inclusion has a positive effect on household income in China.

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The thesis has two main purposes: (i) Building a theoretical framework for analyzing gender equality in formal credit access; (ii) Alanyze credit access in 2 aspects: macro and micro approaches.

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The paper conceptualizes rurbanization to bridge the gap in the research that emanates from the propensity of urban megapolises to create clutter, which results in degraded ecology, air pollution, health hazards, lower quality of life, gender inequity, and vulnerability to natural disasters. This has exacerbated during the current global pandemic. As de-covidating initiatives are unleashed, the energy access would need appropriate and manageable scale. Urbanization cannot be sustained without a robust rural interface.

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This paper aims at highlighting the inequality aversion of the Cameroonian social planer. This is allowed by the multilevel (α, β) - decomposition of the α - Gini which integrate in its functional form a parameter of inequality aversion of the decision maker being related either to within-group inequality (α) or between-group inequality (β).

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This study investigates men and women’s representations in TV advertisements in Vietnam from a multimodal critical discourse analysis perspective. The data comprise of almost one hundred TV advertisements aired on principle TV channels in Vietnam such as VTV and HTV. The framework in use is Fairclough’s (2001), in which part of Kress and van Leeuwen’s visual grammar (1996) is incorporated for a multimodal discourse analysis of the advertisements.

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Gender issues are closely related to poverty and development. The annual reports on human development show that the poor provinces have low human development index and gender development index The given issues show that poverty and inequality are major factors hindering the development of mountainous Thai Nguyen today.

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