that labor productivity is approximately 15.2 percent (or 0.165 log point) lower among women-owned than men-owned informal … firms. Decomposition techniques reveal several factors that contribute to lower labor productivity of women-owned informal … protection from crime among women owners than men owners of informal firms. However, the smaller size of the women-owned firms …

the rapid increase in female-owned businesses. Had women's participation remained in the proportion to male … otherwise present and a transition for some women from unpaid domestic work. …

and identifies several factors that have altered the bargaining position of men and women over the last decades. It then … reviews empirical work on the contribution of men, as fathers and husbands, to the health and socioeconomic outcomes of women … focus on men rather than exclusively target women. …

This paper reviews empirical findings from economic analyses of the role of gender equality and women's empowerment in … range of development outcomes, the paper presents evidence on the impact of women's access to markets (labor, land, and … credit) and women's decision-making power within households on poverty reduction and productivity at the individual and …

Development Indicators, the Economist Intelligence Unit database, and the World Bank's Women, Business and the Law database for 13 … countries in the Middle East and North Africa region for four years (2018 to 2021), a pooled cross section dataset is …

This paper seeks to fill a knowledge gap relative to the low uptake of services for women living in situations of … protect women from domestic violence. Through qualitative research, this paper explores the experience of women survivors of … violence against women (VAW) in seeking help to exit abusive relationships, with the aim of identifying avenues to strengthen …

persistence, and women's occupational constraints-- with particular emphasis on the role of access to infrastructure. The first … promoting the role of women in growth strategies. …

With only 32 percent of working-age women in the labor market, Guatemala is an upper-middle-income country with one of … educational attainment of women, the reduction in fertility, and the country's structural transformation toward services. However …, a large component remains unexplained. Exploring 2018 data, the paper shows that social norms, attitudes toward women in …