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  1. Library Resource
    The Islamic Legal Provisions for Women’s Share in the Inheritance System: A Reflection on Malaysian Society
    Peer-reviewed publication
    December, 2014
    Malaysia

    Characterized as divinely ordained, the Islamic law of inheritance defines women’s rights to property of the deceased with specific roles and responsibilities for each individual. Obviously, the Islamic law of inheritance is a major contribution to the legal system of the world, compared to the customary laws in the pre‐Islamic Arab society that denied any proprietary right by way of inheritance to female relatives including daughters.

  2. Library Resource
    April, 2014

    This paper develops a framework and some
    hypotheses regarding the impact of local-level, informal
    legal institutions on three economic outcomes: aggregate
    growth, inequality, and human capabilities. It presents a
    set of stylized differences between formal and informal
    legal justice systems, identifies the pathways through which
    formal systems promote economic outcomes, reflects on what
    the stylized differences mean for the potential impact of

  3. Library Resource
    September, 2014

    This report presents indicators based
    on laws and regulations affecting women's prospects as
    entrepreneurs and employees. Several of these indicators
    draw on the Gender Law Library, a collection of over 2,000
    legal provisions impacting women's economic status.
    Both resources can inform research and policy discussions on
    how to improve women's economic opportunities and
    outcomes. The six indicators of gender differences in formal

  4. Library Resource
    September, 2014
    South-Eastern Asia

    This report profiles 52 business
    women, representing countries where IFC works across the
    Pacific region, in 30 case studies. Women in the report
    share lessons in starting their businesses, and describe the
    obstacles and opportunities they encountered in their
    pursuit of growth. By revealing their future plans, the
    women provide inspiration for current and future business
    women of the Pacific to pursue greater entrepreneurial

  5. Library Resource
    November, 2014

    In the past 50 years women's legal
    status has improved all over the world. But many laws still
    make it difficult for women to fully participate in economic
    life whether by getting jobs or starting businesses.
    Discriminatory rules bar women from certain jobs, restrict
    access to capital for women-owned firms and limit
    women's capacity to make legal decisions. Gender
    differences in laws affect both developing and developed

  6. Library Resource
    April, 2014
    Philippines

    Community-based paralegalism has been
    active in the Philippines for the past 30 years, and yet its
    contribution to access to justice and the advancement of the
    rights and entitlements of the poor has been largely an
    undocumented. This paper attempts to provide a framework
    study on the history, nature, and scope of paralegal work in
    the Philippines, based on the experience of 12 organizations
    that are active in the training and development of

  7. Library Resource
    December, 2014
    Africa

    This is the second edition of the 2003
    paper entitled "Facilitation of transport and trade in
    Sub-Saharan Africa : a review of international legal
    instruments - Treaties, conventions, protocols, decisions,
    directives." Three major reasons motivated this update
    and an expansion of its scope. First, African countries are
    increasingly cooperating, especially in the area of
    corridors, to achieve full connectivity, mobility and

  8. Library Resource
    December, 2014

    Women in post-conflict economies face a
    number of challenges. Often their businesses stay at
    embryonic stages only, due to three key limitations relating
    to: knowledge of business vision and management; access to
    finance and markets; and access to role models and networks.
    Added to the complexity is the risk of having to start all
    over again due to their countriesapos; political instability
    and the limited infrastructure to make their businesses

  9. Library Resource
    June, 2014

    Strong boy-bias and its consequences for
    young and unborn girls have been widely documented for Asia.
    This paper considers a country in Sub-Saharan Africa and
    finds that parental gender preferences do affect fertility
    behavior and shape traditional social institutions with
    negative effects on adult women's health and
    well-being. Using individual-level data for Nigeria, the
    paper shows that, compared to women with first-born sons,

  10. Library Resource
    January, 2014
    Solomon Islands

    This report presents the research
    findings of the Justice Delivered Locally (JDL) initiative
    of Solomon Islands' Ministry of Justice and Legal
    Affairs, which was supported by the World Bank's
    Justice for the Poor (J4P) program. JDL supports the Solomon
    Islands Government (SIG) policy of reinvigorating
    local-level justice systems. This is based on an
    understanding that developmentally important local

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