How Gender Inequalities Hinder Development : Cross-Country Evidence

However, it is important to recognize that women’s health problems and access to health care are affected not only by poverty, but also by gender inequality, since, as argued

Our contribution is an application of this new Shapley income decomposition methodology, in which we concentrate on the discriminatory part of observed inequalities through

Addressing gender inequality requires accelerating the pace of implementation of gender commitments made in various international and regional documents, such as CEDAW and

In several indicators the AGDI, particularly the AWPS, assesses the level of gender-based violence. Gender based violence against women is a factor negatively impact- ing

In South Africa, the White Paper on South African Land Policy (1997) developed by the Department of Land Affairs places emphasis on the removal of legal restrictions on women’s

While on the one hand, we find that investing in the agricultural sectors has positive impacts on growth, improves women’s work opportunities, decreases poverty and inequality both

Results: Significantly higher levels of inactivity and a wider gap between the percentage of women and men meeting global physical activity guidelines were found in countries

Besides, and maybe more importantly, we show that this effect is substantially higher when middle incomes are involved: when their share in total income increases by one