improved gender equity. In certified households, women have greater control of coffee production and monetary revenues from …

gender performance gap. After controlling for business and entrepreneur characteristics, female-owned businesses exhibit a …-employment raises the gap by 5 percentage points. We then investigate the role of sharing norms and gender-differentiated allocation of … time within the household in the gender performance gap, by estimating their effect on the technical inefficiency of female …

-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 review of the recent evaluation evidence on financial services and training interventions questions their gender …. These features help women overcome gender-related constraints. However, when social norms are too restrictive, and women are … de-biasing service provision, which can be gender biased; lastly, whenever possible, results should be sex …

gender performance gap. After controlling for business and entrepreneur characteristics, female-owned businesses exhibit a …-employment raises the gap by 5 percentage points. We then investigate the role of sharing norms and gender-differentiated allocation of … time within the household in the gender performance gap, by estimating their effect on the technical inefficiency of female …

gender-based indices constructed by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and suggests alternatives for choice of … variables, functional form, and weights. While the UNDP Gender Inequality Index (GII) conceptually reflects the loss in …, resulting in only the partial capture of gender inequalities. Since the dimensions used for the GII are different from those in …

understanding of gender-based asymmetries. -- state ; inequality ; difference ; citizenship ; social exclusion ; gender ; poverty … gender differences? In other words, should the state be gender-blind or gender-sensitive? Gender, ethnic, religious, sexual …

poverty-might actually have led to greater gender equality in India-by reducing poverty-linked gender discrimination. The …Economic theory suggests that growth may improve gender equality directly by raising women's employment and indirectly … by reducing poverty-thereby causing poorer families to discriminate less against females in intra-household allocations …

In this paper, we develop a three-period gender-based Overlapping Generations (OLG) model of economic growth for Côte d …’Ivoire by endogenizing life expectancy and linking growth and poverty. We then calibrate the model using the country …-specific data to illustrate the role of public policies in the model, and its implications for long-term growth, gender equality …