-level modeling techniques, this paper explores the macro-level determinants of the gender poverty gap in the ten post …-socialist European Union member states. In dialogue with the literature on the impact of economic development on gender inequality in … Asia and Latin America, we find that fast-paced, foreign capital led economic growth is associated with a larger gender …

A kind of gender revolution is passing through various countries in various continents. By being offered free access to … assess the role of gender equity and uniquely women entrepreneurship in the process of socio-economic development. Implying a … set of variables, treated as proxies of gender equality and women entrepreneurship, we estimate their coherence with socio …

In this article, we survey the theoretical literature investigating the role of gender inequality in economic … development. The vast majority of theories reviewed suggest that gender inequality is a barrier to development, particularly over …

This paper investigates gender inequality in vulnerable employment: forms of employment typically featuring high … from developing countries, we measure long-term trends, describe geographical patterns, and estimate correlates of gender … gender gap. Across countries, the gender gap is smaller in richer countries, with lower fertility rates, and more …

Gender gaps in labour force participation in developing countries persist despite income growth or structural change … across the rural-urban gradient. The gender gap increases with connectivity from rural to peri-urban areas, and disappears in … improves their access to off-farm employment. The gender gap persists for married young women independent of connectivity …

-headed microenterprises, particularly those with a higher baseline level of profits, to close the gender profit gap in performance and skills …

Chen focuses on the role that information and communication technologies (ICTs) can play in improving gender equality … that increases in the level of ICT infrastructure tend to improve gender equality in education and employment. In addition …, the author shows that education among the general population is important for improving gender equality. The results …

for development, policymakers should consider policies that enhance literacy, eliminate gender inequality and increase pay …

Gender relations are a key institution governing important aspects of production and reproduction of societies. They … heterogeneity in gender inequality in formal and informal social institutions. The literature on long‐term drivers of gender gaps … suggests that those gender gaps are related to long‐standing and regularly reproduced gender norms and values related to …