, and effective regulation. Recent developments suggest that regulatory approaches and their legal foundations need to … augment entity-based regulation with increasing focus on activities and risks as market structure changes. This paper draws on …

It is well established that a wide range of legal impediments in countries' domestic laws have prevented women from … 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 …

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 … cost results from a significant drop in female employment. Our results also show that violence against women is more …

Women across the world remain an underutilized resource in the labor force. Participation in the labor force averages … around 80 percent for men but only 50 percent for women - nearly half of women's productive potential remains untapped … participation (LFP) in the world during the last two decades. Women in LAC are becoming increasingly active in paid work, closing …