Gender and Economic Development: The South Asian Experience
A special issue of Economies (ISSN 2227-7099).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 October 2019) | Viewed by 6270
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Extensive research has unanimously agreed that promoting gender equality enhances not only growth but several development outcomes. One such important outcome is the impact on children’s well-being in terms of both education and health when women have greater control over resources. Additionally, research has shown that when women have better control over household resources, family well-being improves. Greater labor force participation by females has been shown to alleviate poverty and unemployment. Gender equality’s impact on economic growth can happen through multiple channels. It can happen through increased quality of human inputs reflected through increased productivity of labor, increased efficiency in the allocation of inputs, and due to differential propensities to save money between males and females. While macro studies and studies focusing on specific countries, micro units, or regions addressing all such issues are extensive in the literature, our knowledge on South Asia is still pretty limited given the lack of adequate studies on these issues for this specific region.
This Special Issue on ‘Gender and Economic Development for South Asia” aims to bridge this gap. The issue invites papers on all related topics on gender and economic development as long as it focusses on South Asia.
Assoc. Prof. Nabamita Dutta
Guest Editor
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