analysed from a gender perspective. The work is based on a case study about the main Tunisian microfinance institution using …Whereas most research into microfinance tends to focus on the impact of access to such services, very little pays … as most microfinance institutions foster client retention and apply a progressive lending policy. Moreover, as previous …

While microfinance institutions (MFIs) are increasingly important as employers in the developing world, there is little … micro-level evidence on gender differences among MFI employees and MFIs' relation to economic development. We use a unique … panel dataset of employees from Latin America's largest MFI to show that gender gaps favouring men for promotion exist …

Although microfinance started as a movement to improve women's economic wellbeing through increased female …. We fill this gap by combining data on branch locations of the major microfinance institutions in Bangladesh with … access to credit on women's work; attitudes towards gender, social and employment norms; and psychosocial well-being. Access …

Agriculture is a main contributor to pro-poor growth in Africa, but gender inequalities in the sector hold back … agricultural growth and affect household welfare negatively. The sector has been characterized by a lack of gender …-disaggregated data and patchy gender-integration in policies and operational responses. To remedy this, the World Bank (WB) and the …

This paper examines the impact of foreign aid on gender equality in education outcomes in developing countries … indicate that aggregate aid disbursements to the education sector negatively affect gender parity in enrolment at the secondary … and tertiary education levels and have no impact on gender parity in primary education. No impact of subsector specific …

identifies linkages between gender, economic development, and growth, however. This paper explores the macro effects of gender …, transmitted via the productive sector and in the household, in part due to the tendency for work - paid and unpaid - to be gender …-segregated. Macro-level policies in turn can have differential effects on men and women. Evidence that gender equality is itself a …

We investigate the causes of the gender disparity in labour market participation in Ethiopia using iterative …

's employment policies from a gender perspective by adopting a functional approach. We examine policies with (1) a labour market … needs to be done to enhance women's access to assets, skills training, and better-quality employment. Further gender …

social policy trajectories in Mainland Tanzania with a gender lens, to better understand the contributions of these … advancements in the legal frameworks and increasingly gender-responsive government policy plans, Tanzanian social policy delivery …

We investigate the trend in the gender employment gap in the expanding nonsubsistence sector of the economy in … Mozambique, a country still characterized by a large subsistence agricultural sector. We show evidence that the gender gap has …