girls and women in the Global South? Is it a solution to ending poverty? Or is it a pursuit of economic growth and corporate … women as instruments of poverty alleviation and new frontiers for capitalist accumulation. Using the Girl Effect, the … women without transforming the structural conditions that produce poverty. These practices, in turn, enable corporations to …

women, such as policies that subsidize the diffusion and use of best practice birth control technologies. Evaluation of the …

women, such as policies that subsidize the diffusion and use of best practice birth control technologies. Evaluation of the …

agricultural sovereignty in a manner that ensures greater financial and social security for rural women not only in India, but …This paper explores the gendered causes and impacts of India's farmer suicide crisis. It begins with a discussion of … property regime intersects with India's trade liberalization efforts to create negative impacts on the country's agricultural …

We examine the causal effect of women's age at marriage on prevalence of domestic violence using newly available … household data from India. We employ an empirical strategy that utilizes variation in age at menarche to obtain exogenous … variation in women's age at marriage. We find robust evidence that a one-year delay in women's marriage causes a significant …