This paper begins by noting that Uganda has been a public sector reform leader in Africa. It has pursued reforms … limitations and close the gaps between what Uganda's system looks like and how it functions. …

This paper examines the impact of gender based violence against women and girls (GBV), in the environment the children …

,181 households, we examine how the welfare of women living in rural areas has evolved during a period of dramatic rural … transformation, 2008 - 14. We find that while the economic situation of women has improved, significant gender disparities remain …, particularly for female-headed households. Women continue to bear a greater burden of responsibility for income …

analyses. While the advent of mobile phone money services has led to increased access to formal financial services, women still … empirical results show that women-especially married women-are less likely to access mobile money services and banking financial … services compared with men. Similarly, women are less likely to save and borrow compared with men, with a higher percentage …

, and by age 22 significantly more women than men have completed high school or tertiary education. From an early age, both … women and men undertake a lot of unpaid labour for their households that tends to be highly gendered, and women's work is … uncounted in the current System of National Accounts definition of labour. However, women still undertake less paid work than …

Relative to developed countries, there are far fewer women than men in parts of the developing world. Estimates suggest … that more than 200 million women are demographically 'missing' worldwide. To explain the global 'missing women' phenomenon … cent of the missing women are 'missing' from Africa. This paper employs a novel methodology to determine how the phenomenon …

techniques to examine the effect of gender wage differences within households on women's empowerment and welfare in Ghana. The … significantly enhances women's empowerment. Also, a decline in household gender wage gap results meaningfully in improving household … welfare. Particularly, the increasing effect on women's welfare resulting from decreases in household gender wage differences …