an innovative and effective way of hearing and relaying the "voice of the poor", so that they can affect decision- making …

. The second measures the extent of the gender performance gap among informal entrepreneurs and explores the existence of … gender-differentiated effects of sharing norms and the allocation of tasks within the household on the technical efficiency …

gender performance gap. After controlling for business and entrepreneur characteristics, female-owned businesses exhibit a …-employment raises the gap by 5 percentage points. We then investigate the role of sharing norms and gender-differentiated allocation of … time within the household in the gender performance gap, by estimating their effect on the technical inefficiency of female …

, and at times voluntary work. The participants’ reactions to JOBS reveal negotiations of identity that depend on gender …

highlight a definite gender pattern, with a strong association between early disadvantage and obesity in women, but not in men …

This paper analyses part of the controversy over export processing zones (EPZs)—the labour market and gender impacts … of microdata availability, we estimate earnings regressions to assess sector and gender wage premia. Zone Franche … women from the low-wage informal sector (where the gender pay gap is very large) to the relatively well-paid export …