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Women empowerment and intra-household dietary diversity in Nigeria

Tanankem, Belmondo V.; Efobi, Uchenna Rapuluchukwu; … - 2016

This study used a nationally representative survey from the 2012-2013 World Bank's General Household Survey for Nigeria, to examine the relationship between empowerment, measured using a modification of the Alkire et al. (2013) empowerment index, and household dietary diversity, based on the FAO...

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Gender divide in agricultural productivity in Mozambique

Morgado, João; Salvucci, Vincenzo - 2016

In this study we analyze the gender gap in agricultural productivity in Mozambique applying the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition approach on data from four agricultural surveys between 2002 and 2012. We find that female-headed households are on average substantially less productive (about 20 per...

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Does connectivity reduce gender gaps in offfarm employment? : evidence from 12 low- and middle-income countries

Egger, Eva-Maria; Arslan, Aslıhan; Zucchini, Emanuele - 2021

jobs. We combine household survey data from 12 low- and middle-income countries in Asia, Latin America, and sub …-Saharan Africa with geospatial data on population density, and estimate simultaneous probit models of different activity choices …

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Gender and food security in Nigeria : the role of corporate social responsibility in the oil producing communities

Uduji, Joseph I.; Okolo-Obasi, Elda N. - 2023

Africa. This research contributes to the gender debate in agriculture from a CSR perspective in developing countries and … nutritional security. This is achieved by enhancing coherence in policies on gender, agriculture, nutrition, health, trade and … relevant food and nutrition security in sub-Saharan Africa. This implies that promoting the implementation of everybody's right …

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Understanding the link between gendered access to agricultural land and household nutrition outcomes in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)

Mwisha-Kasiwa, Janvier; Mosengo, Cédrick Kalemasi; … - 2023

Using data from the DRC Demographic and Health Survey, this study examines the empirical linkages between access to agricultural land and nutritional outcomes by examining gender differences. Results suggest significant effects of access to agricultural land on nutritional outcomes in the full...

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Using evidence and operational responses to accelerate gender equality in Kenya

Torkelsson, Åsa - 2014

Agriculture is a main contributor to pro-poor growth in Africa, but gender inequalities in the sector hold back … guidance as well as inputs for a policy dialogue that aimed to integrate gender in the agriculture sector. This paper uses the …

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Gendered implications of the waves of COVID-19 and economic upgrading trajectories in digital value chains : insights from Kenyan agricultural platforms

Krishnan, Aarti; Nganga, Monica; Foster, Timothy - 2023

evidence exists of how such shocks impact women in agriculture generally, let alone those using digital platforms. This paper …

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A macro-micro analysis of gender segregation and job quality in Latin America

Arora, Diksha; Braunstein, Elissa; Seguino, Stephanie - 2021

Latin America has seen vast improvements in gender educational and health equality. Favourable supply-side conditions, however, have not translated into greater gender economic equality, a process that also depends on structural economic change and global macroeconomic conditions. In this paper,...

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The care connection : the World Bank and women's unpaid care work in select sub- Saharan African countries

Bibler, Sarah; Zuckerman, Elaine - 2013

With the aim of reducing women's greater unpaid care work than men&'s and increasing women's paid employment, this paper examines the extent to which World Bank investments address unpaid care work. The paper conducts an in-depth gender analysis of 36 World Bank employment-related projects in...

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Enhancing ICT for female economic participation in sub-Saharan Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2022

This study investigates how enhancing information and communication technology (ICT) affects female economic participation in sub-Saharan African nations. Three female economic participation indicators are used, namely female labor force participation, female unemployment and female employment...

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