. 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 …

A large national farm panel from India covering a quarter century (1982, 1999, and 2008) is used to show that the …

influencing the incidence of child health gains from access to piped water in rural India. Using propensity score matching methods …

that estimates the economic costs of the caste system in particular environments: (1) In North India, discrimination … lower-caste children enrolled in English-language schools in Mumbai after India opened itself up to the world market grew …

This paper presents the results of an investigation of selected census towns in northern India. Census towns are … settlements that India's census classifies as urban although they continue to be governed as rural settlements. The 2011 census …

This paper estimates the welfare impact of rural electrification in India using nationally representative household ….6 percent increase in income. The net gain from both increasing the access rate and reducing power outages in rural India is … estimated to be US$11 billion a year. Moreover, India's rural electrification policy appears to be progressive because lower …