We evaluate the gender wage gap and the unexplained gender wage differential for workers 15-29 year old during the … endogeneity of education and we evaluate gender discrimination by studying the entire distribution of the unexplained wage gap as …

nevertheless adopted a litany of utopian international goals for universal school enrollment and gender parity in education based … of these, the Millennium Development Goals, call for universal primary schooling and full gender parity by 2015. This … work quantifies how long it has taken countries rich and poor to make the transition towards high enrollments and gender …

To what extent has government education spending in Pakistan been effective in reducing gender gaps in enrollments? To … gender disparity in access to public subsidy is higher at tertiary level and lowest at primary level, which also reflects …

effects on growth and well- being, and has done little to promote greater gender equality. This paper argues that the example … growth was rapid, it was not enough to produce greater gender equality. A concentration of women in mobile export industries … that face severe competition from other low-wage countries reduces their bargaining power and inhibits closure of gender …

. The regional (16 Indian states and 28 Chinese provinces) level study of India and China show that the quality of growth …

China’s emergence has raised pointed questions about the future of manufacturing in Latin America. Once saw as its … practical terms, by at least three generations of Asian Tigers. China and its “unlimited supply of labor”, rapid productivity …, productivity, scale and the government role, all work together to make China a formidable competitor. The importance of this …

China’s growing demand for oil is significantly changing the international geopolitics of energy, especially in the … East Asian economies (China, Japan and South Korea) is also a possibility. This document first of all presents an overview … of China’s energy sector, emphasising the strong growth in its energy demand to date and its potential for future growth …