Using newly available customs data from Bangladesh, along with additional administrative and survey data, this study examines how variation in import tariffs on key agricultural inputs affects men's and women's agricultural employment and production-given a high degree of segmentation among men...

Tax “justice” has become an increasingly central issue of political debate in many countries, particularly following the cardiac arrest of global financial services in 2008 and the subsequent worldwide slump in trade and production. The evident abuse of tax systems by corporations and rich...

1. Taxation and gender equality : a conceptual framework / Caren Grown -- 2. Methodology and comparative analysis / Caren Grown and Hitomi Komatsu -- 3. Gender equality and taxation in Argentina / Corina Rodriguez Enriquez, Natalia Gherardi and Dario Rossignolo -- 4. Gender equality and taxation...

Caren Grown responds to the tensions and different points of view in the international debate on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) brought out in Development 48.1 on the MDGs. She takes issue with the skeptical view that the MDGs are doomed to failure, and she argues they can be...

This paper reviews the evidence of gender effects of globalization in developing economies. It then outlines a set of macroeconomic and trade policies to promote gender equity in the distribution of resources. The evidence suggests that while liberalization has expanded women’s access to...

Although the construction industry has been a tremendous growth industry for black entrepreneurs in recent years, black-owned construction firms, on average, are less than half the size of those owned by nonminorities. Previous findings suggest that limited access to financial capital,...

This paper reviews the evidence of gender effects of globalization in developing economies. It then outlines a set of macroeconomic and trade policies to promote gender equity in the distribution of resources. The evidence suggests that while liberalization has expanded women's access to...

The "Great Recession" of 2007-2009, the worst economic downturn faced by the U.S. economy since the Great Depression, has also come to be known as the "Great Man-cession" in that job loss hit males harder than females. By contrast, this paper argues that the "man-cession" story is far too...