, they, and the World Bank which subsequently followed this method, find that gender bias in mortality is much larger than …

In 2005 and 2006, the Human Development Report Office undertook a review of UNDP's gender-related indicators …, particularly the Gender-Related Development Index (GDI) and the Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM). Background papers as well as the … the two gender-related indicators and by presenting illustrative results for these proposed measures. The most important …

Donors of foreign aid increasingly claim to consider gender inequality in the recipient countries to be a serious … concern. While aid specifically to promote gender equality receives only a tiny share of aid budgets, allocations to education …, health, and civil society projects could be affected by gender inequality concerns. In this paper, we investigate whether …

In this paper we construct the Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) and its five subindices Family code, Civil … liberties, Physical integrity, Son Preference and Ownership rights using variables of the OECD Gender, Institutions and … Development database. Instead of measuring gender inequalities in education, health, economic or political participation, these …