Little investigation has been made to explain why women are less likely than are men to support democracy in sub-Saharan Africa. This gender difference in politics has been found in numerous studies and may hinder the much needed legitimation of democracy in this region. This paper addresses the...

This paper investigates the effects of financial sector, product market, and trade reforms on labor productivity growth and its two components-the intra-sectoral (within) and inter-sectoral (between) components-in a sample of developing countries over 1975-2005. The paper finds that most of the...

A substantial literature has examined the determinants of support for democracy and although existing work has found a gender gap in democratic attitudes, there have been no attempts to explain it. In this paper we try to understand why females are less supportive of democracy than males in a...