The UN Conference of Women, held in Beijing in 1995, provided a forum for the exploration of current feminist topics. This volume presents papers from that conference, discussing in detail issues in gender studies and development, from rural and urban poverty to population and family planning....

Banerjee and Iyer (henceforth, BI) (American Economic Review, 2005) find that districts which the British assigned to landlord revenue systems systematically underperform districts with non-landlord based revenue systems, especially in agricultural investment and productivity and mainly after...