Book abstract: Women in the Global Economy: Leading Social Change explores the landscape of women’s participation in the economy and the…
The political fallout from Mitt Romney’s characterization of 47% of the American electorate as “victims” who are “dependent on government”…
The clamour for the right to social pensions is another attempt to deal with the Indian state’s inability to provide adequate social…
Poverty, although it has declined dramatically in the last few decades, affects more than a billion
people in the contemporary world. Their…
This article examines the conceptual, measurement, and regulatory challenges of promoting decent work for domestic workers. After a brief…
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…
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…
In this paper, we illustrate a methodology to measure discrimination in educational contexts. In India,
we ran an exam competition through…