Women, youth and seniors face barriers to economic inclusion in Canada, with considerable scope to improve their labour … market outcomes. There has been no progress in shrinking the gender employment gap since 2009, and women, particularly …. Growth in old-age poverty should be tackled through further increases in basic pension payments over time. Linking changes in …

This paper offers an evaluation of a supported women's self help program with over 1.5 million participants in one of … capabilities across a range of dimensions are then developed for some 6000 women and used to estimate a number of propensity score …-strand programs can help to explain the paradox as to why nearly 100 million women (in India alone) have participated in self help …

quantity-quality preferences of spouses differ substantially. In this case targeted policies to empower women have the …

In developing countries, women's decisions concerning their children's health depend on 'empowerment' concerning … poverty measurement. The health of children is a latent variable; their height and weight are observed health indicators. We …

’Ivoire by endogenizing life expectancy and linking growth and poverty. We then calibrate the model using the country …, and poverty in Côte d’Ivoire. To this end, we discuss three sets of quantitative experiments: broad-based development … (reduction in gender bias in the market place, increase in women’s bargaining power, and reduction in family bias against girls …

The Magna Carta of Women (R.A. 7910) is the Philippines comprehensive women's human rights law. The Magna Carta of … Women is found to be consistent with Rawlsian notions of justice, particularly when it undertakes inequality evaluation in … primary goods. Identity-based inequality evaluation is also present in the Magna Carta of Women as implied in its definition …