on a mass scale in India. The liberalization-induced policy of narrow targeting of the Public Distribution System (PDS …

accordance with employment policies. Although some women participate on an equal footing with men, the ‘dual earner, gender …

. Focusing on the areas women in management and decision-making, gender pay gap and work-family reconciliation, the paper reviews …

Universal parental leaves with job protection and earnings compensation increase women’s attachment to the labour … women’s labour supply of long parental leaves by policies targeted especially at the father, and policies making formal day … latest initiatives have contributed to a shortening of women’s employment interruptions and a more equal division of paid and …

generations to meet their own needs. The paper focuses on women’s empowerment as a key process to reach gender equality and …, through that, sustainable development. It looks first at the concept of women’s empowerment and sustainable development and … done to show what needs to be done and is being done for women’s empowerment, both through building an enabling environment …

in Ghana. Using micro data from the sixth round of the Ghana Living Standards Survey conducted in 2012/2013, marginal …, reducing within-component inequality significantly reduces overall poverty and inequality in Ghana, compared to between … tax policies (such as Value Added Tax and National Health Insurance Levy in the case of Ghana) that provide exemptions for …

The paper studies the multidimensional aspects of poverty and living conditions in Ghana. The aim is to fill the vacuum …-set theoretic framework to compare levels of deprivation in Ghana over time usig micro data from the last two rounds of the Ghana … scarcely changed in Ghana. In fact, it even rose slightly during the nineties, contrary to the uni-dimensional analytical GLSS …