assistance agencies. One of the reasons for this hurdle may well be that gender advocates and growth devotees are speaking … paper outlines a framework for gender-enhanced growth diagnostics that can be used to identify win-win solutions based on … or that from a pro-gender reform aimed at closing gender gaps. Using Turkey's country growth diagnostics and data on …

This paper brings together sociological theories of culture and gender to answer the question ? how do large … this question in the context of Jeevika, a World Bank-assisted poverty alleviation project targeted at women, and find … changed women?s habitus and broke down normative restrictions constitutive of the symbolic boundary of gender …

around the world. Youth are found to comprise a large share of all migrants, particularly in migration to other developing … and gender composition of migrants, whether or not young migrants move alone or with a parent or spouse, their … particular, developing country youth tend to work in similar occupations all around the world, and are more concentrated in these …

Sectoral segregation is often used to explain a large part of a well-documented gender earnings gap in business profits …

impacts are seldom gender neutral. Death and destruction alter the structure and dynamics of households, including their … demographic profiles and traditional gender roles. To date, attention to the gender impacts of conflict has focused almost … exclusively on sexual and gender-based violence. The authors show that a far wider set of gender issues must be considered to …

Languages use different systems for classifying nouns. Gender languages assign many -- sometimes all -- nouns to … paper constructs a measure of the proportion of each country's population whose native language is a gender language. At the … cross-country level, this paper documents a robust negative relationship between the prevalence of gender languages and …

A range of reasons is cited to explain gender differences in business performance in Africa. Within those, the sector …

This paper incorporates gender bias against girls in the family, school and labor market in a model of … face lower mobility irrespective of location when born to fathers with low schooling, but the gender gap closes when the … leads to gender divergence in relative mobility for the children of highly educated fathers. In urban China, and urban and …

. The study does not find evidence of other gender differences in the hiring process …

integration measures on gender employment and wages. The study incorporates gender-differentiated employment and wages for … green trade sectors. This is the first major attempt to develop a gender-differentiated data set for South Asian countries …, within the widely used Global Trade Analysis Project framework, to examine the nexus between trade, green economy, and gender …