This study examines the nature and extent of time poverty experienced by men and women in subsistence households in Mozambique. Gender roles, shaped by patriarchal norms, place heavy work obligations on women. Time-use data from a primary household survey in Mozambique is used for this analysis....

This paper presents an evaluation of the so-called Washington Consensus economic policies in the case of Ecuador during the eighties and the nineties in a game theoretical framework. In a multi-period game, in which it acts as Stackelberg leader, the government minimizes a quadratic loss...