Globalization presents threats to and opportunities for women working in the informal sector. The paper, which draws on the work of Women…
Book abstract: In the interests of contextualising (and nuancing) the multiple interrelations between gender and poverty, Sylvia Chant has…
In this paper we establish six stylized facts related to marriage and work in Latin America and present a simple model to account for them…
What Works in Development? brings together leading experts to address one of the most basic yet vexing issues in development: what do we…
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Despite recent growing demand from funders and governments, rigorous impact evaluations in Latin America and the Caribbean remain the…
Female education levels are very low in many developing countries.
Does maternal education have a causal impact on children's…
Evaluations of educational programs commonly assume that what children learn persists over time. The authors compare learning in Pakistani…
Iceland (1) has claimed the top spot of the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index 2009 from Norway (3) which slipped to third…