gender inequality in the spread of HIV/AIDS in India. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses data from National Aids … status of women in India. Policymakers need to focus on gender inequality in order to combat the spread of HIV/AIDS in India … spread of HIV/AIDS across gender. In particular, a potentially important factor – the low status of women in society is …

's progress in population stabilization and development, and the setbacks it faces in terms of gender inequalities. Region and …

women to negotiate gender barriers, increase their control over their own lives, and improve their relative position in … gender subordination. The authors acknowledge the need for consciousness raising, organizing and struggling for women’s right …

's progress in population stabilization and development, and the setbacks it faces in terms of gender inequalities. Region and …

gender preferences in rural Kenya and to draw public policy implications from the results. This is an important matter …. This may be an impediment to Kenya's development. Design/methodology/approach – First relevant economic literature is … considered simultaneously when examining determinants of the number of children in a family and child gender preference …

The legacy of the last 50 years of development economics is not very inspiring. In the 1960s and 1970s, instead of … looking at the real causes and viable solutions to poverty and underdevelopment, development economics was preoccupied with … specific policies of development. These countries skillfully combined government interventionism with market system incentives …

Micro-finance institutions are critical to Africa's quest for solutions to the continent's development challenge. The …, two of the major Millennium Development Goals. The paper concludes with some policy recommendations and a set of “best …