Due to the strong economic growth maintained in the last 15 years, Uzbekistan made progress in reducing gender inequality. At the same time, several demographic and structural challenges remain; and effectively engaging women in the economy is one of them. While modernizing various sectors of...

Expanding childcare is often considered as a suitable way to enhance employment opportunities of mothers with young children as well as to reduce child poverty. In this study the authors critically investigate this assertion by simulating a set of scenarios of increasing subsidized childcare...

The microfinance sector in Rwanda is relatively young. Although small self-help peasant organizations (such as tontines-ROSCA or ibimina) have existed for some time, the sector growth accelerated with the creation of the Banque Populaire du Rwanda (BPR) and Union des Banques Populaires du Rwanda...