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The governance of service delivery for the poor and women: A study of rural water supply in Ethiopia
Mogues, Tewodaj; Cohen, Marc J.; Birner, Regina; Lemma, … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009
This study presents empirical findings on drinking water supply in Ethiopia from a set of qualitative and quantitive surveys on rural public services. Access to safe drinking water is very low: 32% of the surveyed households use safe drinking water sources, and the average time to get to safe...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132626
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Is reliable water access the solution to undernutrition? A review of the potential of irrigation to solve nutrition and gender gaps in Africa South of the Sahara:
Domènech, Laia - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2015
that should be taken into account in irrigation development to address nutrition and gender gaps with a focus on Africa …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011272211
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The child health implications of privatizing Africa’s urban water supply:
Kosec, Katrina - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013
Can private-sector participation (PSP) in the urban piped water sector improve child health? The author uses child-level data from 39 African countries during 1986–2010 to show that introducing PSP decreases diarrhea among urban dwelling children under five years of age by 5.6 percentage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132720
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Development and evaluation of a regional water poverty index for Benin:
Heidecke, Claudia - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006
"The paper discusses the application of the Water Poverty Index (WPI) as a monitoring tool for Benin's water sector. Benin is currently in a process of political decentralization shifting responsibility for and administration of rural water supplies from the national to the communal level....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004996703
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Fertility, agricultural labor supply, and production: Instrumental variable evidence from Uganda:
Van Campenhout, Bjorn - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
Human fertility is likely to affect agricultural production through its effect on the supply of agricultural labor. Using the fact that in traditional, patriarchal societies sons are often preferred to daughters, we isolated exogenous variation in the number of children born to a mother and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114773
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The Feminization of Agriculture with Chinese Characteristics:
de Brauw, Alan; Huang, Jikun; Rozelle, Scott - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010593556
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Gender, labor, and prime-age adult mortality: evidence from South Africa
Yamauchi, Futoshi; Buthelezi, Thabani; Velia, Myriam - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006
"This paper assesses the impact of prime-age mortality on human capital formation and labor markets by examining, first, the impact on adolescents, who may leave school in order to enter the labor market, and second, the impact on adult females who, upon the loss of a breadwinner, may decide to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997217
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Gender, labor, and prime-age adult mortality: evidence from South Africa
Yamauchi, Futoshi; Buthelezi, Thabani; Velia, Myriam - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006
"This paper examines the impact of prime-age adult mortality on the transition from school to the labor market of adolescents and on decisions by female adults to participate in the labor force in South Africa. The analysis focuses on that period—1998–2004—when South Africa experienced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005037812
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Income growth and gender bias in childhood mortality in developing countries:
Ueyama, Mika - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2007
started to examine intrahousehold resource allocation, especially gender bias within the household as potential causes of … poverty. The literature has highlighted the existence of gender inequalities in South Asia, attributed to strong preferences … in the extent of gender bias and its response to income growth. To fill a void in previous studies, this study analyzes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005038146
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Preliminary evidence on internal migration, remittances, and teen schooling in India:
Mueller, Valerie; Shariff, Abusaleh - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009
"Migration can serve as an outlet for employment, higher earnings, and reduced income risk for households in developing countries. We use the 2004–2005 Human Development Profile of India survey to examine correlations between the receipt of remittances from internal migrants and human capital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005037993