"This paper identifies and estimates the strength of the reduction in poverty linked to improved opportunities for … women in the expanding maquila sector. A simulation exercise shows that, at a given point in time, poverty in Honduras would … have been 1.5 percentage points higher had the maquila sector not existed. Of this increase in poverty, 0.35 percentage …

income poverty rates among refugees with a gender lens. It finds distinguishing between different types of male and female … children do not differ by gender of the PA but for other household types poverty rates are higher for those with female PAs … composition and demographics that can be used to identify gender-based vulnerabilities. This paper combines the microdata …