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As sex ratio imbalances have become a problem in an increasing number of countries, it is important to understand their consequences. With the defeat of the Kuomintang Party in China, more than one million soldiers and civilians, mainly young males, retreated to Taiwan in the late 1940s....
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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 … agricultural intervention with nutrition objectives, intrahousehold gender dynamics regarding decisions about crop choice and child … exchange, suggesting again that gender dimensions of networks may be important to diffusion of the crop. We use data from an …
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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 … better able to manage food insecurity and shocks. This suggests that gender differences in demand for financial products can …
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improve various determinants of undernutrition, such as the quantity and diversity of foods consumed within the household … 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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Gender disparities continue to exist in women’s control, inheritance, and ownership of land in spite of legislation … randomized controlled trial design with specific attention to gender. We measure impacts of access to legal aid on a range of … between the impact of the intervention on men and on women is narrowed when taking into account the gender …
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gender gaps in landownership across countries. However, critical data gaps cloud our understanding of land rights and why …
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To support gender analysis in agriculture, household surveys should be better designed to capture gender …
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