Using cross-country and panel regressions, we investigate to what extent gender gaps in education and employment reduce economic growth. Using most recent data and investigating a long time period (1960-2000), we update the results of previous studies on education gaps on growth and extend the analysis to employment gaps using panel data. the combined ‘costs’ of education and employment gaps in...

From the first reported case of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on December 30, 2019 in Wuhan, China, the number of confirmed cases of the disease has been increased continuously and exponentially up to now. The event has emerged as a clear threat to global health such that the World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared the outbreak of the disease a pandemic on March 11, 2020. The ...

Using cross-country and panel regressions, we investigate to what extent gender gaps in education and employment (proxied using gender gaps in labor force participation) reduce economic growth. Using the most recent data and investigating an extended time period (1960–2000), we update the results of previous studies on education gaps on growth and extend the analysis to employment gaps using pa...

1 Eck Institute for Global Health, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, United States of America, 2 Molecular Immunology and Vaccine Research Laboratory, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran, 3 Department of Entomology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America, 4 Pasteur Institute of Tunis, Laboratory of Medical Epidemi...

banking access is a broad concept that examines issues such as physical availability of banking services for people and businesses, terms and conditions and ease of access to these services, diversity of services and financial regulatory scope .in this paper, based on global data and indicators, we survey the status of countries in the middle east and north africa in terms of various banking de...

The cost to developing countries, for current and future generations, of not eradicating hunger and poverty - in terms of recurrent conflicts and emergencies, widening inequalities, depleted resources, ill health, and premature death - is enormous. Although strategies are underway to address certain problems in Africa and the Middle East, much remains to be done. Breaking the poverty cycle in t...