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, increasing women's power would lead to a worsening of gender discrimination against girls. This is likely the result of deeply …"Recent research has shown that improving women's decisionmaking power relative to men's within households leads to … improvements in a variety of well-being outcomes for children. In South Asia, where the influence of women's power is particularly …
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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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We examine the role of gender in adoption and diffusion of orange sweet potato, a biofortified staple food crop being … promoted as a strategy to increase dietary intakes of vitamin A among young children and adult women in Uganda. As an … agricultural intervention with nutrition objectives, intrahousehold gender dynamics regarding decisions about crop choice and child …
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literature is still scant as to which products are the most effective. In order to inform gender targeting of rural finance … 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 …
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that should be taken into account in irrigation development to address nutrition and gender gaps with a focus on Africa …
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development programs on how to incorporate gender and assets in the design, implementation, and evaluation of interventions. This … control of assets relative to a control group, and of those only one project provided evidence of a reduction in the gender … asset gap. The quantitative and qualitative findings suggest ways that greater attention to gender and assets by researchers …
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This research was undertaken to understand gender issues on the distribution of, access to, and control over major …
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between the impact of the intervention on men and on women is narrowed when taking into account the gender …Gender disparities continue to exist in women’s control, inheritance, and ownership of land in spite of legislation … directing improvements in women’s land access. Women are often excluded from traditional patrilineal inheritance systems …
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by these data, and uses these measures to assess the gaps in the land rights of women and men. Building on the conceptual … gender gaps in landownership across countries. However, critical data gaps cloud our understanding of land rights and why … women fare better or worse in certain countries. In particular, the limited information on joint and individual ownership …
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