The 'missing women' dilemma in India has sparked interest in investigating gender discrimination in the provision of …

-growing economies in the world. This paper examines drivers of female labor force participation in urban India between 1987 and 2004 …In the past twenty years, India's economy has grown at increasing rates and now belongs to the fastest … minority of India's women. So despite India's economic boom, it appears that for all but the very well educated, labor market …

The existing literature on "missing women" has suggested that the problem is mostly concentrated in India and China …, they, and the World Bank which subsequently followed this method, find that gender bias in mortality is much larger than … previously found (4-5 million excess female deaths per year), is as severe among adults as it is among children in India, is …

experimenting with different reference populations. Empirically we find that the overall ranking of poverty in India does not change …

’s empowerment. In the second and third essay discuss aspects of participatory development in India in areas ranging from community …