The second issue of "Investing in Women" underscores the Inter-American Development Bank's commitment to enhancing the … contributions of women to development and ensuring their equitable participation in Bank-funded programs. The projects showcased in … this brochure highlight the importance of reducing the obstacles faced by women and emphasize the roles they play as agents …

This article discusses the plight of poor women around the world and the feminization of poverty. The evidence is … imperfect, but current trends suggest that women account for a growing proportion of those people who are considered poor on the …

-1991, the paper finds that women living in areas covered by the Globo signal have significantly lower fertility. The effect is … strongest for women of lower socioeconomic status and for women in the central and late phases of their fertility cycle. Finally …

ways disasters affect women and to highlight women's participation in prevention, relief, rehabilitation, and … reconstruction efforts. This report is based on background papers prepared on the effects of Mitch and past disasters on women, and …

mothers earn lower wages than women with no children, the results for Latin America do not show a homogeneous impact of …

the effects, first on marital status and family formation, and second on women's employment options, earnings and poverty …Does early childbearing restrict women's social and economic opportunities? These questions are explored by examining …, including poverty, which is a potentially large confounding variable in developing economies. The presence of sizable poverty …

For women microentrepreneurs, access to financial services matters. It is critical to their ability to make productive … investments in their businesses. As part of IDB's efforts to strengthen women's roles in economic development, the Women in … Development Unit undertook a study to analyze the kinds of financial services available to women microentrepreneurs. It examined …