persistence, and women's occupational constraints-- with particular emphasis on the role of access to infrastructure. The first … several gender-based or gender-related experiments -- a reduction in the cost of child rearing, improved wage equality in the … promoting the role of women in growth strategies. …

Bringing together history and economics, this paper presents a historical and processual understanding of women …'s economic marginalization in Sub-Saharan Africa from the pre-colonial period to the end of colonial rule. It is not that women … major arguments. First, it discusses the historical processes through which the labor of women was increasingly appropriated …

This paper draws on history, anthropology, and economics to examine the dynamics and extent of women's contribution to … education and the persistence of gender discrimination in labor force participation; it also considers the overwhelming … gender gaps enhances growth in per capita gross domestic product and reduces female fertility rates and infant mortality. The …

The representation and significance of women in the labor force have grown significantly over the past five decades … around the globe. Using nationally representative data from more than 90 countries, this paper documents distinct gender … sectoral choice and focusing on six major economies, the paper finds that declining gender barriers - defined as gender …

reduce poverty. This paper describes the main mechanisms through which demographic change may affect economic outcomes, and … estimates the association between changes in the share of working-age population with per capita growth, savings, and poverty … poverty reduction …

the literature and contributes by: Showing that financial depth is negatively associated with headcount poverty, even …

-case, "pessimistic," path to that goal would see the developing world outside China returning to its slower pace of growth and poverty … lift one billion people out of poverty. The more optimistic path would maintain the (impressive) progress against poverty …

reducing rural poverty and safeguarding the food security of farming and non-farming households. Prompting smallholder farmers … ex ante risk-mitigating production decisions. Standard ordinary least squares regression results indicate that gender … matters as well; however, the measured productivity gap between male and female farmers disappears when gender is included in …

average plots managed by women produce 19 percent less per hectare than plots managed by men. It also finds that the gender … agriculture is characterized by low performance and its productivity growth has been identified as a key driver of poverty … interventions to improve agricultural productivity among women, it is important to measure the potential gap between men and women …