not the employment outcomes of those refugees who received financial grants to enable them attend their education …

facie equal merit subjects refugees to unfair and discriminatory treatment. This article demonstrates the extent of …

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 …

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

a cause célèbre for aid activists and has been accepted in many official quarters as the legitimate target for aid … an aid goal of just 0.01% of rich-country GDP for the poorest countries and negative aid flows to the developing world as … a whole. We do not claim in any way that this is the 'right' amount of aid, but only that this exercise lays bare the …