majority of the world poor and vulnerable. However, the appropriate strategy for achieving growth in any given country remains …. Though there are some positive trends that women entrepreneurs actively contribute to the overall growth the gender gap …

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 …

This dissertation focuses on the relationship between gender equality and economic development, broadly defined. Since … the seminal work of Ester Boserup (1970), gender equality is widely understood as being both an instrument for and a … the consequences of gender inequality for economic development? (Chapter 1.) And what are its causes—i.e., why do we …

There has been a phenomenal global increase in the proportion of women in politics in the last two decades, but there …

women-friendly policies and legislation targeting areas such as minimum quotas for each gender for parliamentary seats …

corruption. Despite the ubiquity of literature on corruption, the relationship between a state's political capacity and … corruption has not been addressed by the existing academic literature. To measure the political capacity of a country, the … reducing corruption. On the other hand, a strong political capacity provides them with the opportunity for rent-seeking and …