Why has the expansion of women's economic and political rights coincided with economic development? This paper … investigates this question, focusing on a key economic right for women: property rights. The basic hypothesis is that the process … their daughters. The model predicts that declining fertility would hasten reform of women's property rights whereas legal …

We estimate the community-level impact of foreign aid projects on women's empowerment in the country with the most … on an index of female agency and women's sexual and fertility preferences. Gender-targeted aid has a further positive … impact on women's sexual and fertility preferences, and more tentatively on an index focusing on gender-based violence …

-educated women (those with incomplete secondary education). However, progress has not been equal across all the countries in the … highly conservative norms about women's participation in work. …

As India seeks to strengthen trade, investment and other forms of economic cooperation with ASEAN, Myanmar is an … essential strategic partner, since it is the only ASEAN nation with which India shares both land and maritime borders. As a … "gateway" to South East Asia, Myanmar is also vital in terms of economic development for India's North East Region (NER). India …

Comparisons of India and China have been made for over 50 years. This paper focuses on purchasing power estimates in … China and India in the 2005 round of the UN International Comparison Programme (ICP) that was coordinated by the World Bank … currencies and real product per capita for 146 countries, and the results for China and India are discussed in the context of the …