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 …We estimate the community-level impact of foreign aid projects on women's empowerment in the country with the most …

percent of its population was below the poverty line in 2011-12. As per the Situation Assessment Survey of NSS (2012 … poverty alleviation and development for all, making UP truly an "Uttam Pradesh". …

poverty line. Ninety one per cent of poverty in Odisha is rural and more than 60 per cent of its workforce is engaged in …

municipalities with women councilors devote more resources to social investments. In particular, women politicians prioritize …

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 …