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Elodie Becquey

Elodie Becquey is a Senior Research Fellow in the Nutrition, Diets, and Health Unit, based in IFPRI’s West and Central Africa office in Senegal. She has over 15 years of research experience in diet, nutrition, and food security in Africa, including countries such as Burkina Faso, Chad, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, and Tanzania.

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Women’s empowerment and child nutrition in the Asia – Pacific region: Evidence from Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka, and Timor-Leste

2025Leight, Jessica; Mukerjee, Rishabh; Kala, Peggy
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Women’s empowerment and child nutrition in the Asia – Pacific region: Evidence from Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka, and Timor-Leste

Adverse nutritional outcomes for children under five remain a significant challenge around the world, and there is growing evidence that women’s empowerment is associated with better children’s nutritional outcomes. In this paper, we analyze the association between women’s empowerment and the probability of stunting, wasting, underweight status, and achieving dietary diversity for children under five using a cross-country sample of Demographic and Health Survey data from three countries in the Asia – Pacific region: Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka, and Timor-Leste. We construct the Survey-based Women’s Empowerment (SWPER) index as well as a slightly modified SWPER index using women’s reported experience of intimate partner violence (IPV) rather than attitudes toward domestic violence (employed in the original index). Our findings suggest that women’s empowerment as captured by the SWPER index is associated with a reduced incidence of stunting, wasting and underweight status and a higher probability that children achieve MDD, though this relationship is only weakly observed in Timor-Leste. In general, the index estimated using experience of IPV shows a clearer association with nutritional outcomes, vis-a-vis the index estimated using attitudes toward IPV.

Year published

2025

Authors

Leight, Jessica; Mukerjee, Rishabh; Kala, Peggy

Citation

Leight, Jessica; Mukerjee, Rishabh; and Kala, Peggy. 2025. Women’s empowerment and child nutrition in the Asia – Pacific region: Evidence from Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka, and Timor-Leste. Papua New Guinea Food Policy Strengthening Working Paper 9. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/178756

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Papua New Guinea; Sri Lanka

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Timor-leste; Oceania; Asia; Southern Asia; South-eastern Asia; Women’s Empowerment; Gender; Child Nutrition; Nutrition; Children; Women; Surveys

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English

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Open Access

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Gender gaps in landownership across and within households in four Asian countries

2017Kieran, Caitlin; Sproule, Kathryn; Quisumbing, Agnes R.; Doss, Cheryl R.
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Gender gaps in landownership across and within households in four Asian countries

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2017

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Kieran, Caitlin; Sproule, Kathryn; Quisumbing, Agnes R.; Doss, Cheryl R.

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Kieran, Caitlin; Sproule, Kathryn; Quisumbing, Agnes R.; and Doss, Cheryl R. 2017. Gender gaps in landownership across and within households in four Asian countries. Land Economics 93 (2): 342-370. https://doi.org/10.3368/le.93.2.342

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Bangladesh; Vietnam; Tajikistan

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Timor-leste; Southern Asia; Central Asia; Asia; South-eastern Asia; Gender; Households; Landowners; Land Ownership; Gender Equity in Access to Land; Property Rights; Ownership; Marriage; Gender Equity; Women

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English

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Prospects and adaptation strategies for the fisheries sector under climate change in Pacific Coral Triangle countries: Consultant’s final report

2016Dey, Madan M.; Rosegrant, Mark W.; Valmonte-Santos, Rowena
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Prospects and adaptation strategies for the fisheries sector under climate change in Pacific Coral Triangle countries: Consultant’s final report

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2016

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Dey, Madan M.; Rosegrant, Mark W.; Valmonte-Santos, Rowena

Citation

Dey, Madan M.; Rosegrant, Mark W.; and Valmonte-Santos, Rowena. 2016. Prospects and adaptation strategies for the fisheries sector under climate change in Pacific coral triangle countries: Consultant’s final report. Technical Assistance Consultant’s Report. Washington, DC: Asian Development Bank. https://www.adb.org/projects/documents/ta-7753-prospects-adaptation-strategies-fisheries-sector-cc-pacific-coral-triangle-tacr

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Fiji; Solomon Islands; Vanuatu

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Timor-leste; Oceania; Asia; Melanesia; South-eastern Asia; Climate Change Adaptation; Fisheries; Climate Change

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English

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