financial inclusion-in general, and for women in particular. We find that structural country characteristics, such as resource …

analyses. While the advent of mobile phone money services has led to increased access to formal financial services, women still … empirical results show that women-especially married women-are less likely to access mobile money services and banking financial … services compared with men. Similarly, women are less likely to save and borrow compared with men, with a higher percentage …

Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), advocating the multiple dimensions of women's rights, affects the level of women's rights in a … women's rights; in particular, (i) whether the effects are stronger if a member country has a higher level of democracy; and … (ii) whether the effects are most pronounced in the dimension of women's social rights, a special focus of the Convention …

Employing economic and social globalization indicators, we empirically analyze whether globalization affects women … social globalization positively affects both women's economic and social rights, while the impact of economic globalization …" problems, prevailing in developing countries. However, (marginalized) foreign women, proxied with inflows of human trafficking …

This paper empirically investigates whether globalization can improve women's rights. Using panel data from 150 … countries over the 1981-2008 period, I find that social globalization positively affects women's economic and social rights …. When controlling for social globalization however, economic globalization does not have any effect on women's rights …

exacting on women in these parts of the world. All these estimates 'missing women' were based on demographic information of the …More than 10 years ago, Amartya Sen estimated than some 100 million women are 'missing' as a result of excess female … mortality in parts of the developing world, most notably South Asia, China, West Asia, and parts of North Africa (Sen, 1989; Sen …

institutional biases against women from other constraints and hurdles that female businesses might face by exploiting detailed trade … inequality and institutional biases against women in trade partner countries play an important role in explaining gender …