This paper contributes to better understanding firms' discriminatory behavior in the presence of gender-based legal …

This paper reviews empirical findings from economic analyses of the role of gender equality and women's empowerment in … household level. The paper also summarizes evidence from studies examining the relationship between gender equality and poverty … reduction and growth at the macro level. Although micro level effects of gender equality on individual productivity and human …

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 …

research questions for the future. The objective is to develop a gender-informed policy and research agenda on youth employment …

employment and the reduction in the gender gap in education in recent years …

This report reviews the literature on the links between energy access, welfare, and gender in order to provide evidence … on where gender considerations in the energy sector matter and how they might be addressed. Prepared as a background … document for the 2012 World Development Report on Gender Equality and Development, and part of the Social Development …

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 …

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 …

several gender-based or gender-related experiments -- a reduction in the cost of child rearing, improved wage equality in the …