. Women's groups in Botswana have used advocacy tools such as testing the implementation of gender equality principles in the … male heirs as contrary to constitutional principles of equality. The paper explores the role that judges and national … courts play in implementing gender equality principles and upholding state commitments to the Convention on the Elimination …

conclusion that "history matters," since institutions clearly form and evolve over time. Unfortunately, however, the next logical … useful and distinctive insights to offer. This paper endeavors to open and sustain a constructive dialogue between history …

institutions at the spatial unit of districts in India. The study disentangles the within-industry effect from the within … manufacturing firms in India, which allows for the introduction of firm-specific controls and a battery of fixed effects. The …

mobility. This paper tests these predictions in India and China using data not subject to coresidency bias. The evidence … rejects the linear conditional expectation function in rural and urban India in favor of a concave relation. Girls in India … rural India, the mechanisms are underestimation of the ability of girls and unfavorable school environment. There is some …

Punjab, India, to assess the impact of a flagship sanitation program of the Government of India. The program, the Clean India …, eliminate the practice of open defecation, and improve the awareness and practice of good hygiene across rural India. It …

This study examines the asset gains to households in Kerala, India, from two types of labor migration: moving overseas … versus moving within India for employment. It draws on panel data from waves of a representative household survey conducted …-migrants enables them to earn as much in low-skill jobs abroad as more educated workers relocating within India can …

learning, and applies it to India, a country where several studies see the official urbanization rate as an under-estimate. For …, differing in their familiarity with India and with urban issues, following two different protocols. The judgment … each of the out-of-sample administrative units in India is urban or rural in practice. The analysis does not find that …