women from 25 to 54 years old in Greater Montevideo. Many of the results obtained, such as the positive relationship between …

Microfinance—both credit and savings—has potential to improve the well- being of poor women in developing countries …. This paper explores practical ways to achieve that potential. Based on lessons from informal saving mechanisms that women … already use, the paper proposes two savings services designed to address the development issues that confront women. The …

We evaluate the gender wage gap and the unexplained gender wage differential for workers 15-29 year old during the … the labour markets of two Italian provinces. We estimate separate earnings functions for men and women correcting for … 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 …