This paper investigates a women's self-help group program with more than 1.5 million participants in one of the poorest …

female entrepreneurship and various institutional factors, including women's financial inclusion, the gender gap in education … 2016. The paper finds that the gender gap in business ownership remains high in many economies around the world. In the … majority of the analyzed economies, less than one-third of new limited liability company owners are women. Although sole …

persistence, and women's occupational constraints-- with particular emphasis on the role of access to infrastructure. The first … several gender-based or gender-related experiments -- a reduction in the cost of child rearing, improved wage equality in the … promoting the role of women in growth strategies …

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 …

Improving women's agency, namely their ability to define goals and act on them, is crucial for advancing gender … equality and the empowerment of women. Yet, existing frameworks for women's agency measurement -- both disorganized and partial … -- provide a fragmented understanding of the constraints women face in exercising their agency, restricting the design of quality …

promotion of gender equality. It employs the family as the main unit of analysis because a large part of gender interactions … and identifies several factors that have altered the bargaining position of men and women over the last decades. It then … reviews empirical work on the contribution of men, as fathers and husbands, to the health and socioeconomic outcomes of women …

This paper examines women's power relative to that of their husbands in 23 Sub-Saharan African countries to determine … how it affects women's health, reproductive outcomes, children's health, and children's education. The analysis uses a … novel measure of women's empowerment that is closely linked to classical theories of power, built from spouses' often …

This paper reviews empirical findings from economic analyses of the role of gender equality and women's empowerment in … range of development outcomes, the paper presents evidence on the impact of women's access to markets (labor, land, and … credit) and women's decision-making power within households on poverty reduction and productivity at the individual and …

measure of unequal laws also known as legal gender disparities, and relates it to several labor market outcomes for women … evidence indicates that access to finance and corruption are pathways by which legal gender disparities disempower women in the … discriminate against women influence their engagement in the economy. The study adopts a holistic approach, exploring an overall …

Over the past two decades developing countries have seen a rapid increase in the number of women taking an active role … evidence focuses attention on the importance of developing pro-FPLP policies specifically targeting women belonging to lower …