“Are women more willing to accept jobs with lower pay?” Courtesy of IZA Few topics in labor economics have received more attention in academic, public and policy debates than the gender pay gap. The IZA Newsroom frequently summarizes new research findings on various drivers of the gap, including the role of discrimination vs. structural differences, […]
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Bilateral development finance is basically just commercial EM investment
By Adrian Fielding, TES Contributor In a job interview in 2015 with a development finance institution (DFI) that will remain unnamed, my response to the question ‘what do you think we do here?’ went something like this: development finance institutions’ raison d’être is the de-risking of potentially highly-transformational projects or the financing of […]