reflect and perpetuate gender norms that limit women's economic participation, and removal of these impediments through legal … reform has been shown to be an effective method to catalyze greater participation of women in the economy-along with the … women's participation in the economy. This paper goes beyond previous Fund work by categorizing the key sources of laws that …

The COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns have led to a rise in gender-based violence. In this paper, we explore the economic … consequences of violence against women in sub-Saharan Africa using large demographic and health survey data collected pre …-pandemic. Relying on a two-stage least square method to address endogeneity, we find that an increase in the share of women subject to …

behavior. In Poland, empirical evidence suggests that relative wage rigidity contributed to lower employment and output, but …

This paper reviews the experience of 1990, the first year of Poland’s program of stabilization and reform. The …

The paper analyzes common issues emerging from the recent experience with Fund-supported programs in Hungary, Poland …

This paper challenges the conventional wisdom that inequality in Poland increased markedly during the economic …

, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, and Slovenia for the period 1994-1999 it is shown that historical values for interest rates …