Environs trois quarts des pauvres à travers le monde vivent dans les zones rurales. Parmi eux, les femmes constituent un groupe particulièrement vulnérable et pourtant stratégique pour le développement économique et social. Investir au profit des femmes rurales ne répond alors plus...

About three quarters of the world’s poor live in rural areas. Among those, women constitute a particularly vulnerable, yet crucially important group for social and economic development. Investing in rural women is thus not only a moral imperative; it can also be a promising strategy to...

Alrededor de tres cuartas partes de los pobres del mundo viven en zonas rurales. Entre ellos, la mujer constituye un grupo especialmente vulnerable pero de importancia decisiva para el desarrollo económico y social. Invertir en la mujer rural, por tanto, no es sólo un imperativo moral, sino...

This paper examines recent economic data, including the most recent data released the third week of August 2010, in an attempt to evaluate the Venezuelan economy's prospects in the foreseeable future. It finds that the Venezuelan economy, which went into recession in the first quarter of 2009...

With Spain’s official unemployment rate at 26 percent, and the economy projected to contract by 1.3 percent this year, it is difficult to make the case for continued austerity that could push a barely growing economy back into recession. Yet the government is committed to further fiscal...

This paper shows that, in spite of a reasonably sized fiscal stimulus package, Costa Rica’s economy continues on a downward path, partly because fiscal policy is being offset by a tightening of monetary policy. The paper notes that the International Monetary Fund has insisted that Costa...