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 …

performance to discern any gender disparity in access to education and academic performance of students. … for Implementation of the Regional Gender Agenda .-- II. Understanding gender disparity in education and employment … .-- III. Methodology .-- IV. Gender disparity in school enrolment .-- V. Gender disparity in educational attainment .-- VI …

Since 2009, the OECD Development Centre has been publishing the Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI), a cross …-country measure of gender-based discrimination in social institutions (formal and informal laws, social norms and practices). This … SIGI 2019 methodology establishes a criterion for the computation of measures of gender-based discrimination –where zero …

This study investigates how ameliorating gender inclusion affects sustainable development in Africa over the period … 2000-2019 in 42 African countries. It argues that enhancing gender inclusion in all sectors of society promotes and sets a … better pace for the attainment of sustainable development in Africa. The gender inclusion variable used is the females …

, and sustainable tourism. Notwithstanding the divergence in the operational definitions associated with these types, gender … the jobs generated by tourism are taken up by women highlighting the potential of tourism to promote gender equity …. Further, there is huge consensus across the various disciplines regarding the relations between gender and environment, which …

from a household survey conducted in 2011. We find that the heads of migrant households with school-age children earn … characteristics, migration duration, origin location, and family structure. Households migrating with school-age children have a …

In recognizing that women's participation and gender equity is a precondition for the achievement of acceptable … development outcomes, extractives industry companies are increasingly making public commitments to integrating gender equality …, inclusion, and women's economic empowerment into aspects of their operations. This paper reviews recent literature on gender and …

Though gender equality has been at the centre of debate over the last decades, a number of benefits concerning the … terms. The goal is to contribute to the literature streams on gender economics and on sustainable finance. Most research on … develops disaggregate scores for each dimension, but also provides motivation for the measurement of gender equality by means …