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On norms and agency
This report provides tremendous insight on gender norms an area that has been resistant to change, and that constrains achievement of gender equality across many diverse cultures. The report synthesizes data collected from more than 4,000 women and men in 97 communities across 20 countries. It is the largest dataset ever collected on the topic of gender and development, providing an unprecedented opportunity to examine potential patterns across communities on social norms and gender roles, pathways of empowerment, and factors that drive acute inequalities. The analysis raises the profile of persistent social norms and their impact on agency, and catalyzes discourse on the many pathways that create opportunities for women and men to negotiate transformative change. The report is underpinned by the fact that arguably the single most important contribution to development is to unleash the full power of half the people on the planet women. It underscores how crucial making investments in learning, supporting innovations that reduce the time costs of women s mobility, and developing a critical mass of women and men pushing the boundaries of entrenched social norms are in enhancing women s agency and capacity to aspire.
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The Rockefeller Foundation on the US Role in International Population Programs
The Rockefeller Foundation's report 'High Stakes: The United States Global Population and Our Common Future' emphasizes that US-financed international population programs are being undermined by budget cuts. It asserts that, if these programs continue to weaken, international family planning may be determined by either of two extreme views: that birth control should be abandoned completely and that family planning should be forcibly implemented.
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System of Railroad Regulation In This Country Inconsistent
AT the end of nearly ten years of regulation we now find the railroads subject to the interstate commerce commission and to the separate and unrelated commissions of forty-six states, all with very wide powers over...
Newspaper Article
CHARITY - A MATTER OF DEDUCTION
Three years ago, Congress voted to allow taxpayers who take the standard deduction and file the short form to deduct the value of their charitable contributions. This is being phased into the tax code, to make gradual the impact on revenues. In the first year, the limit of such ''above-the-line deductions'' was $25, but by 1986 non-itemizers would be able, under existing law, to deduct the full value of their gifts. Not surprisingly, the argument against allowing non-itemizers to deduct their contributions rests heavily on the belief that lower income taxpayers are much less likely to be influenced by tax incentives than are wealthier ones. One study maintains that 90 percent of charitable contributions made by families with incomes between $10,000 and $20,000 are not tax-induced. It concludes that the above-the-line deduction is ''a wasted subsidy.''
Newspaper Article