adequate collateral limits women entrepreneurs' ability to access formal finance, leaving them torely on informal sources … gender gaps in financial access. Results suggest that anincrease in women entrepreneurs access to formal credit results in …

with propensity score matching method. The analysis confirms that education opens up opportunities for women to escape … agricultural feminization and engage in formal wage employment, but these opportunities diminish when women marry - a disadvantage … increasingly relevant when countries develop and urbanization progresses. Opening a household enterprise offers women an …

employment in Senegal. To that end, we build an overlapping generations model that captures barriers that women face over their … increased in female-to-male employment ratio and (ii) the rest can be explained by a decline in the discrimination against women …

This paper examines trends in indicators of gender equality and women's development, using evidence derived from …

specifications. The findings of this paper support the long-standing view that women empowerment contributes to the reduction of …