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concentrated among specific groups whose access to the private-sector labor market is limited. Educated young women are more … the cost of hiring women. …
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concentrated among specific groups whose access to the private-sector labor market is limited. Educated young women are more … the cost of hiring women. …
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Egypt, we show how such a model can generate realistic results concerning water use and productivity that cannot be captured …
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four case studies on Egypt, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen. It argues that food security-related policies and programs build …
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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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whether benefits affect men and women equally. Using a randomized field experiment in Senegal and Burkina Faso, we compare … hypothesize that this difference results from the fact that although men and women are equally exposed to yield risk, women face … essence, the basis risk associated with agricultural insurance products is higher for women. Insurance was more effective than …
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Interventions aimed at increasing water availability for livelihood and domestic activities have great potential to improve various determinants of undernutrition, such as the quantity and diversity of foods consumed within the household, income generation, and women’s empowerment....
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and development implementers could improve outcomes for women in future projects. …
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This research was undertaken to understand gender issues on the distribution of, access to, and control over major assets of rice-farming households as well as the effects of technologies promoted by an Agricultural Research for Development (AR4D) project in selected villages in eastern Uttar...
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