funding and financing. Nonetheless, much more private capital could flow with greater clarity on social assets, given their …

Many countries remain far from achieving gender equality in the classroom. Using data from 126 countries, we … characterize the evolution of gender gaps in low- and middle-income countries between 1960 and 2010. We document five facts. First …, gender gaps widened as more boys went to school, then narrowed as girls enrolled; thus, gender gaps got worse before they got …

(urban population and its share of total national population) that is reported by various countries but there is no … standardized definition of 'urban' resulting in inconsistencies. This situation is particularly troublesome if one wishes to …) and the world. This paper proposes an alternative to the UN measure of urban concentration that we call an agglomeration …

In this paper we examine several dimensions of gender disparity for a sample of 40 countries using micro-level data. We … start by documenting the reversal of the gender education gap and ranking countries by the year in which it reversed. Then …

general population. This suggests that gender-specific barriers discourage women from entering the CFA professions. One …