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 …

Poor rural women in the developing world spend considerable time collecting water. How then do they respond to improved … developing countries. The paper does not find that access to water comes with greater off-farm work for women, although in …

document for the 2012 World Development Report on Gender Equality and Development, and part of the Social Development …-specific understanding of energy scarcity and household decision-making, in particular how women's preferences, opportunity cost of time, and …

discriminate against women influence their engagement in the economy. The study adopts a holistic approach, exploring an overall … measure of unequal laws also known as legal gender disparities, and relates it to several labor market outcomes for women …. Using data for more than 60,000 firms across 104 economies, the study finds that unequal laws not only discourage women …

This paper investigates a women's self-help group program with more than 1.5 million participants in one of the poorest … rural areas of Northern India. The program has four streams of activity in micro-savings, agricultural enterprise training …

toward the end of 2010). Yet, between 2000-04 and 2005-09 world cotton production increased 13 percent. This paper … conjectures that biotechnology-induced productivity improvements increased supplies by China and India, which, in addition to …

economic management in the developed world and the economic models that guide it. The crisis has revealed major market failures … should largely reinforce the Post-Washington Consensus on development that has emerged over the past decade -- a world view …