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Cities and Rural Transformation : A Spatial Analysis of Rural Youth Livelihoods in Ghana
Diao, Xinshen - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012964305
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Women’s Empowerment and Child Nutrition in Polygynous Households of Northern Ghana
Tomoé, Bourdier - 2020
, relative to other children. Using the Feed the Future Ghana Population Survey data, I investigate the relationship between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012849698
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Understanding the Measurement of Women’s Autonomy : Illustrations from Bangladesh and Ghana
Seymour, Greg - 2017
-making power within households. We utilize data from women and men in Bangladesh and Ghana to investigate whether respondents who …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012948722
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What Dimensions of Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Matter for Nutrition-Related Practices and Outcomes in Ghana?
Malapit, Hazel Jean; Quisumbing, Agnes R. - 2014
status of women and children using 2012 baseline data from the Feed the Future population-based survey in Ghana. The sample … consists of 3,344 children and 3,640 women and is statistically representative of the northernmost regions of Ghana where the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014142817
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What Does Empowerment Mean to Women in Northern Ghana? Insights From Research Around a Small-Scale Irrigation Intervention
Bryan, Elizabeth; Garner, Elisabeth - 2020
interventions. This paper explores local perceptions of empowerment in the Upper East Region of Ghana in the context of a small …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014101872
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How Does Women's Time in Reproductive Work and Agriculture Affect Maternal and Child Nutrition? Evidence from Bangladesh, Cambodia, Ghana, Mozambique, and Nepal
Komatsu, Hitomi; Malapit, Hazel Jean; Theis, Sophie - 2016
poorer nutrition. Using data from Bangladesh, Cambodia, Ghana, Mozambique, and Nepal, we find that on the whole, in poor … long hours in agriculture reduces women’s dietary diversity score in Ghana and nonpoor women’s in Mozambique. However, for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014128953
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Gender, Household Behavior, and Rural Development
Doss, Cheryl R.; Quisumbing, Agnes R. - 2019
This paper reviews recent conceptual and empirical developments regarding household behavior and gender norms in developing countries covering the following general topics: (1) what do the data tell us about gender gaps in control and ownership of resources? (2) what have we learned about...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014108524
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The Cost of Transporting Cereals in West Africa
Mercier, Stephanie - 2018
This study examines transportation alternatives for moving cereals into position for storage under the West African Food Security Regional Reserve agreed to by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in 2013, for which cereals were first procured in 2017. It describes the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012910846
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Managing Risk with Insurance and Savings : Experimental Evidence for Male and Female Farm Managers in West Africa
Delavallade, Clara; Dizon, Felipe; Hill, Ruth Vargas; … - 2015
While there is a fast-growing policy interest in offering financial products to help rural households manage risk, the literature is still scant as to which products are the most effective. In order to inform gender targeting of rural finance policy, this paper investigates which financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014136962
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Geography of Smallholders’ Tractor Adoptions and R&D– Induced Land Productivity : Evidence From Household Survey Data in Ghana
Takeshima, Hiroyuki - 2019
mechanization remain central to agriculture in countries like Ghana. Significant knowledge gaps exist on the adoptions of … of repeated crosssectional, nationally representative data (Ghana Living Standard Surveys 2006, 2013, 2017), as well as … unique tractor-use data in Ghana, and multi-dimensional indicators of agroclimatic similarity with plant- reeding locations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861401