In this paper, we test whether the gender composition of government affects the quality of governance and reform … efforts, thus connecting the literature that documents the effects of gender on decision making to the literature on the … determinants of reforms. We find that countries with a higher share of female ministers and a higher share of female MPs tend to …

gender equality in human development by making rural service provision and local governance inclusive and responsive to the … service provision and local governance, the gender bias in human development is still pronounced. This casts doubt on the … effectiveness of reservation policies as an instrument for making rural service provision and local governance more gender equitable …

This paper focuses on the role of fiscal and monetary policies in the evolution of the Indian economy over the years …, with particular attention being given to the reforms undertaken in these policies since the early 1990s. [Sixth Asian …

consequences of these different dynamics on the location, pace, sequence of reforms and the regime these reforms occur. …