Over the past two decades, economists have turned their attention to exploring the role of
gender in the macroeconomy. This paper reviews the salient findings of that literature …

Gender, Development, and Globalization is the leading primer on global feminist economics
and development. Lourdes Benería, a pioneer in the field of feminist economics, is joined in …

The international community is increasingly aware of the negative impacts of child marriage
on a wide range of development outcomes. Ending child marriage is now part of the …

Violence against women, recognized globally as a fundamental human rights violation, is
widely prevalent across high-, middle-, and low-income countries. Violence against women …

Across the world the Gender and Entrepreneurship Together (GET Ahead) training originally
developed by the International Labour Organization has been implemented to improve …

Background Internationally, mental health and social care systems face significant
challenges when implementing policy to prevent and respond to domestic violence (DV) …

We use a randomized control trial to evaluate the impact of a business training for female
clients of a microfinance institution in northern Vietnam, and we consider the impact on (i) …

Violence against women and girls (VAWG) is a longstanding problem that has increasingly
come to the forefront of international and national policy debates and news: from the US …

Intimate partner violence (IPV) is the most common form of violence against women in both
conflict and non-conflict settings but in conflict settings it often receives less attention than …

This paper assesses country and regional trends in gender inequality since 1990 in three
domains: capabilities, livelihoods, and agency. The data offer evidence of substantial …