Other Papers

• Engendering Information & Communication Technologies Challenges & Opportunities for Gender-Equitable Development, 2004
• Impact of Investments in Female Education on Gender Equality, Anju Malhotra, Rohini Pande, Caren Grown, August, 2003  (PDF 410KB)
• Gender, Time Use and Models of the Household, Patricia Apps , Faculty of Law, University of Sydney, October, 2002 (PDF 310KB)
• Consumption, health, gender and poverty, Anne Case and Angus Deaton, First version May, 2002, revised June and July, 2002 (PDF 150 KB)
• Measuring Women’s Empowerment  as a Variable in International Development, June, 2002 (PDF 760KB)
• Advancing Gender Equality: Worldbank Action Since Beijing, 2000  (PDF 1560KB)

PREM NOTES

• Gender and the impact of credit and transfers,2005 (PDF 69KB)
  Ignoring gender in the planning and evaluation of credit and transfer programs can lead to erroneous conclusions about who benefits from them.
  
• Gender issues in child labor, 2005 (PDF 472KB)
  Developing effective policies against child labor requires attention to gender differences among working children. This notes reviews available evidence.
  

• Engendering justice: a gender assessment’s impact on projectdesign,2005
  (PDF 86KB)
  Services are more efficient and equitable when targeted to the different needs of men and women. A gender assessment, focused on a specific issue or sector, is a costeffective
  tool for improving project performance and meeting poor people’s needs.
  

• Labor market regulations for women: are they beneficial?, 2004 (PDF 94KB)
  Labor market regulations specific to female workers are common in developing countries. What are the labor market effects of maternity benefits and working-hour restrictions for women? And does such legislation offer female workers the protection it promises
  
• The impact of international trade on gender equlaity, 2004 (PDF 60KB)
  Do women benefit from expansions in international trade? This notes review the growing evidence on this issue.
  
• Gender-differentiated Impacts of Pension Reform, 2004 (PDF 70KB)
  Pension reform can have a positive or negative impact on the gender gap in pension benefits. This notes uses examples from Latin America and Eastern Europe to illustrate how gender outcomes depend on the combined effect of changes in pension design features.
  
• Minimizing Negative Distributional Effects of Public Sector Downsizing, 2004 (PDF 79KB) 
  Downsizing has different impacts on men and women. Negative distributional consequences can be minimized using the Downsizing Options Simulation Exercise (DOSE) developed by the World Bank.
  
• Hurricane Mitch - The Gender Effects of Coping and Crisis, 2001(PDF 155KB)
  Disaster management efforts should recognize that women and men suffer different effects and have different responses to crises.
  
• Gender and Transport: A Rationale for Action, 1999 (PDF 135KB)
  Transport can make a big difference in increasing women's productivity and promoting social equity. How best can transport policies and projects identify and respond to the needs of women?
  
• Using Microcredit to Advance Women, 1998  (PDF 166KB)
  This year’s floods have endangered the substantial achievements of Bangladesh’s microcredit programs. Recent studies nevertheless bring out many important lessons from such programs. Bangladesh shows that microcredit programs can raise living standards and alleviate poverty – particularly for women and their households.