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Scale and sustainability: The impact of a women’s self-help group program on household economic well-being in India
Microfinance groups are a prominent source of small-scale rural credit in many developing countries.
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Agricultural development projects increasingly aim to improve health and nutrition outcomes, often by engaging women.
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Irrigation systems management in Nepal: Women’s strategies in response to migration-induced challenges
Large-scale male outmigration has placed new pressures on both men and women, especially regarding labour division in farm households and involvement in Water Users Associations (WUAs).
book chapter
Measuring women’s empowerment and gender equality through the lens of induced innovation
Part of the Emerging-Economy State and International Policy Studies book series (EESIPS)
journal article
Joint forces: The impact of intrahousehold cooperation on welfare in East African agricultural households
In low- and middle-income countries, poor cooperation between members of smallholder agricultural households may lead to inefficient allocation of productive resources.
To gain a better understanding of intrahousehold bargaining processes, surveys increasingly collect data from co-heads individually, especially on decision-making, asset ownership and labour contributions.
In situations with imperfect information, the way that value chain actors perceive each other is an important determinant of the value chain's structure and performance.
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Reducing vulnerability to forced labour and trafficking of women migrant workers from South- to West-Asia
Millions of short-term, low-skilled women migrant workers from South-Asia to West-Asia experience exploitative and unsafe conditions.
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Advancing the agency of adolescent girls
More than 98 million adolescent girls are not in school. Can girls inuence their schooling without changes in their family's economic environment?
Esta ficha técnica de país presenta indicadores claves de I + D agropecuarios en una presentación visual muy accesible.
Esta ficha técnica de país presenta indicadores claves de I + D agropecuarios en una presentación visual muy accesible.
working paper
Women's empowerment and the intrinsic demand for agency: Experimental evidence from Nigeria
Most studies of intrahousehold resource allocation examine outcomes and do not consider the decision-making process by which those outcomes are achieved.
discussion paper
Micro insights on the pathways to agricultural transformation: Comparative evidence from Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa
Most studies of agricultural transformation document the impact of agricultural income growth on macroeconomic indicators of development.
India’s agricultural systems are increasingly affected by the adverse effects of climate change.
This paper analyzes transaction data from agricultural surveys carried out in five countries in low-and-middle-income countries to test for a difference in the prices received by men and by women marketing the same crop in the same village.
Since its inception in 2005, the Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) has been a cornerstone of the Ethiopian government’s strategy for poverty alleviation, disaster risk management, and rural development.
This paper develops a new framework to measure and track women’s empowerment in governance of countries’ agrifood systems.