Gendered Laws, Informal Origins, and Subsequent Performance
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Labor Markets; Gender and Development; Anthropology; Gender and Social Development; Judicial System Reform; Employment and Unemployment;All these keywords.
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-IUE-2022-11-07 (Informal and Underground Economics)
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