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Assets are an important means of coping with adverse events in developing countries but the role of gendered ownership is not yet fully understood. This paper investigates changes in assets owned by the household head, his spouse, or jointly by both of them in response to shocks in rural...
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promoted as a strategy to increase dietary intakes of vitamin A among young children and adult women in Uganda. As an … and nonland assets controlled by women, affect adoption and diffusion decisions. …
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guidelines on how to improve data collection efforts to ensure that women farmers are interviewed and that their voices are heard. …
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The hypothesis underlying this review paper is that how irrigation gets deployed in SSA will be decisive not only for environmental sustainability (such as deciding remaining forest cover in the region) and poverty reduction, but also for health, nutrition, and gender outcomes in the region. The...
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"In 1993, India introduced quota-based political reservations for women in rural areas with the objective to promote … needs of women. Recent evidence shows that reservation policies for women (1) stimulate the political participation of women … access to and the quality of public services. Despite the suggested positive effects of women's reservation policies on …
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, life-cycle effects, and political participation. Across input areas, generally men have higher input measures than women …
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vendor survey conducted in two marketsheds during weekly fairs. No certified seed is sold. Almost all vendors are women who …
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withdraw children from school and increase the probability that they are selected into farm work. Health shocks to women …
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intellectual deprivation through investments in women's human capital may be more effective than previously suggested, but it will … require approaches that account for dimensions of women's human capital beyond just their schooling. Effective interventions … to improve women's biological and intellectual human capital often begin in utero or in early childhood; thus, their …
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landownership between women and men in African countries. The first section of the paper engages in a conceptual discussion of how …
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