This paper explores the impact of a livestock transfer program, that targeted small-holder female farmers with high levels of food insecurity in Nicaragua. For this purpose, the three dimensions of food security are assessed (i.e. access, availability and food use). The analysis uses a double...

Background: This research explores the repercussions of the COVID-19 emergency on women’s enablement worldwide, scrutinizing data spanning 93 nations between 2019 and 2020.Methods: The investigation employs sectional data examination of various metrics pertinent to women’s empowerment,...

Agricultural commercialization can help to lift subsistence farmers out of poverty, but can also have adverse effects on gender equality. We explore whether private food standards - with their particular elements to regulate production and trade - could serve as a vehicle to promote gender...

I briefly review key findings within the vast and extensive literature on microcredit and its efficacy as a means to gender empowerment and gender equality for poor women in the global South. I argue that the evidence suggests that it is ultimately empowering and has benefited many despite its...

How do shifts in intra-household gender dynamics affect the economy at large? This paper parametrizes intra-household gender-powered decision-making and endogenous distributions of income to allow for the aggregation of key macroeconomic variables. In equilibrium, we find that greater women's...

The empowerment of women is one of crucial development issues. This is due to the fact that women appear to form the largest of the poor and vulnerable group. In this regards, microcredit program has been argued to be potentially effective as a tool for poverty alleviation and lifting the poor,...