Ethnic diversity and forest commons
The management of forest commons requires coordination within a community and between communities. This coordination is usually challenging given the incentives for free riding.
The management of forest commons requires coordination within a community and between communities. This coordination is usually challenging given the incentives for free riding.
The importance of women’s roles for nutrition-sensitive agricultural projects is increasingly recognized, yet little is known about whether such projects improve women’s empowerment and gender equality.
Women’s groups are important rural social and financial institutions in South Asia. In India, a large majority of women’s groups programs are implemented through self-help groups (SHGs).
Intergenerational transmission of intrahousehold gender attitudes in Ethiopia--An analysis of current households with natal households of both the husband and wife.
Women’s decisionmaking indicators are widely used in social science research, though insufficient attention is given to measurement issues.
A look beyond the identity of household decisionmakers to the rationale behind who makes decisions and whether that rationale factors in household outcomes.
Women’s empowerment is a process that includes increases in intrinsic agency (power within); instrumental agency (power to); and collective agency (power with).
The potential for women’s self-help groups to improve access and use of public entitlement schemes in India.
Mali, a vast landlocked country at the heart of West Africa in the Sahel region, is one of the least developed and most food insecure countries in the world.
Addresses validity concerns on impacts of parental education on child nutrition
Lessons from eight projects on individual and household assets in seven countries in Africa and South Asia