Differences in access to productive resources, education, and credit can affect the capacity of cattle producers, especially women. This document analyses gender inequalities Colombian sector using census information on activity, disaggregated at territorial level. The econometric analysis evidences a negative relationship between participation women producers production municipal Our findings ...

This paper reviews evidence of the gender effects of globalization in developing economies. It then outlines a set of macroeconomic and trade policies to promote gender equity. The evidence suggests that while liberalization has expanded women’s access to employment, the long-term goal of transforming gender inequalities remains unmet and appears unattainable without state intervention in marke...

OBJECTIVES This study compares trends in socioeconomic inequalities related to key cardiovascular risk factors in neighbouring countries Northern Ireland (NI) and the Republic of Ireland (RoI). DESIGN Repeated cross-sectional studies. SETTING Population based. PARTICIPANTS 3500-4000 in national surveys in NI and 5000-9000 in RoI, aged 20-69 years. MEASURES Educational attainment was use...

OBJECTIVE We propose a new method to measure health inequalities caused by conditions amenable to policy intervention and use this to identify health differences between sexes and age groups. METHODS The lowest observed mortality rates are used as a proxy of unavoidable mortality risks to develop a new measure of health outcome - realization of potential life years (RePLY). The RePLY distribu...