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 …

trade facilitation has serious implications not just for women's empowerment but also for productivity and growth potential … the challenges and impediments faced by women in engaging in cross-border trade, with particular emphasis on demonstrating …

-established concerns about the rights of women, and of vulnerable groups such as poor workers, small-scale farmers, people with …