Since their inception in 1995, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)'s Gender-Related Development Index (GDI …) and Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM) have been criticized on conceptual and empirical grounds. In 2005-6, the UNDP's Human … adjusting the recommendations, making concrete proposals for two gender-related indicators, and presenting illustrative results …

Using cross-country and panel regressions, we investigate to what extent gender gaps in education and employment … (proxied using gender gaps in labor force participation) reduce economic growth. Using the most recent data and investigating … analysis to employment gaps using panel data. We find that gender gaps in education and employment considerably reduce economic …

impacts on dietary quality. The total nutrition effects of supermarket participation could be even more positive if women were …

improved gender equity. In certified households, women have greater control of coffee production and monetary revenues from …

survey data from Tanzania to analyze social networks and their role for the spread of information about improved varieties of …

With the commercialization of agriculture, women are increasingly disadvantaged because of persistent gender … investigate the gender implications of recently established farmer groups. Traditionally, banana has been a women’s crop in Kenya … negative gender implications of farmer groups can be reduced or avoided when women are group members themselves. In the poorest …

Tanzania and the average treatment effect framework, we question the hypothesis that limited information is an important … gap is sizeable only in the east of Tanzania, where productivity effects of hybrids are small. In the north, where …

Since the early 1990s, liberalization of the seed market in Tanzania has attracted several foreign companies that now …, production, and household living standards. We build on a recent survey of smallholder maize farmers in two zones of Tanzania …