Gender and Economic Growth in Kenya

Gender and Economic Growth in Kenya
Author:
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2007
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0821369202

This book examines the legal, administrative, and regulatory barriers that are preventing women in Kenya from contributing fully to the Kenyan economy. Building on the 2004 FIAS Improving the Commercial Legal Framework and Removing Administrative and Regulatory Barriers to Investment report, this study looks at the bureaucratic barriers facing women in Kenya through a gender lens.

Gender and Economic Growth in Uganda

Gender and Economic Growth in Uganda
Author: Amanda Ellis
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2006
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0821363859

Men and women both play significant, though different, economic roles in Uganda (both contribute around 50% of GDP and women are 39% of business owners). Gender inequality in access to and control of productive assets and resources acts as a brake to women's economic participation and limits economic growth. Labor and time constraints differentially affect women's and men's capacity to engage in business activity, with significant consequences for agricultural productivity in the context of strategic exports. It is therefore important for Uganda to unleash the full productive potential of fema.

Gender Impacts of Revenue Collection in Uganda

Gender Impacts of Revenue Collection in Uganda
Author: Nite Tanzarn
Publisher: Commonwealth Secretariat
Total Pages: 60
Release: 2008
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780850928914

Gender responsive budgeting is a key instrument to track how governments are investing in advancing gender equality and equity. While most studies of gender responsive budgeting work so far have examined the expenditure side of the budget, the revenue side is equally important. In this Economic Paper, Nite Tanzarn looks at the revenue and tax system in Uganda, a country that has moved from analysis to action in gender responsive budgeting. This case study will show policy-makers in ministries of finance worldwide how government revenue collection practices affect men and women differently, and how to build an awareness of gender into financial policy.

Professional Social Work in East Africa

Professional Social Work in East Africa
Author: Helmut Spitzer
Publisher: African Books Collective
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2014-10-28
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9970253700

Prevalent poverty and related problems in the East African region call for substantial action from various stakeholders, including social workers. This book, based on comprehensive empirical research, portrays an emerging yet powerful profession that has a significant role to play in the endeavour towards social development, social justice, human rights and gender equality. The book is the first of its kind to provide first-hand theoretical and empirical evidence about social work in East Africa.

Africa Development

Africa Development
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 652
Release: 2009
Genre: Africa
ISBN:

A quarterly journal of the Council for the Development of Economic and Social Research in Africa = Revue trimestrielle du conseil pour le développement de la recherche economique et sociale en Afrique.