social policy trajectories in Mainland Tanzania with a gender lens, to better understand the contributions of these …In July 2020, the United Republic of Tanzania gained the status of a lower-middleincome country. This came after two … advancements in the legal frameworks and increasingly gender-responsive government policy plans, Tanzanian social policy delivery …

Tanzania has experienced relatively strong and stable economic growth accompanied by social stability over the past two … design and outcomes. This constitutes a key challenge in Tanzania, where women and femaleheaded households are constrained by … impacted disproportionately by the economic implications of the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper interrogates Tanzania …

We complement the institutional literature on gender and the welfare state by examining how taxes and transfers affect … various welfare regime types. We quantify the extent to which taxes and transfers are able to close the gender gap in earnings …-age pensions, taxes and transfers - both contributory and means-tested - significantly reduce gender income inequality but cannot …

Agriculture is a main contributor to pro-poor growth in Africa, but gender inequalities in the sector hold back … agricultural growth and affect household welfare negatively. The sector has been characterized by a lack of gender …-disaggregated data and patchy gender-integration in policies and operational responses. To remedy this, the World Bank (WB) and the …

-level modeling techniques, this paper explores the macro-level determinants of the gender poverty gap in the ten post …-socialist European Union member states. In dialogue with the literature on the impact of economic development on gender inequality in … Asia and Latin America, we find that fast-paced, foreign capital led economic growth is associated with a larger gender …

identifies linkages between gender, economic development, and growth, however. This paper explores the macro effects of gender …, transmitted via the productive sector and in the household, in part due to the tendency for work - paid and unpaid - to be gender …-segregated. Macro-level policies in turn can have differential effects on men and women. Evidence that gender equality is itself a …

Economic development is often held to be beneficial for gender equality. However, there is good reason to believe that … empirical assessment of the relative importance of development and historical determinants of gender equality at the cross …-national level. To capture this long-term relationship, a new index of gender equality that stretches back to 1960 is introduced …

Gender relations are a key institution governing important aspects of production and reproduction of societies. They … heterogeneity in gender inequality in formal and informal social institutions. The literature on long‐term drivers of gender gaps … suggests that those gender gaps are related to long‐standing and regularly reproduced gender norms and values related to …

We contribute to the literature on trends in living standards in Tanzania by analysing child welfare using two multi …

differential economic and social outcomes between the genders. Here, we present a global investigation of gender differences in six … to take risks, patience, altruism, positive and negative reciprocity as well as trust. Gender differences in preferences … were positively related to economic development and gender equality. This suggests that greater availability of and equal …