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?
More than 98 million adolescent girls are not in school. Can girls inuence their schooling without changes in their family's economic environment?
Some agricultural practices, such as irrigation, have the potential to buffer seasonal dietary gaps and through increased production and consumption improve diets, particularly of the rural poor relying on subsistence farming but also for rural an
There is an enormous interest in development interventions aimed at reducing behavioural poverty traps, including by raising women's and girls' aspirations, or future-oriented goals.
Although migration remains crucial for economic development, financial constraints may limit individual ability to migrate.
Experimental evidence from women-owned microenterprises in Ethiopia. Post-training surveys find that business training improves profits & sales.
Increasing women's empowerment is a key objective of many development programs, both as a principal goal and as a path to economic development.
Women’s and youth’s roles in agriculture vary across contexts and over time. Limited quantitative information is available on this topic from Southeast Asia in general, and particularly from Myanmar.
Gender differences in the engagement of work activities across sectors are important elements of gender inequality in rural livelihoods and welfare in developing countries.
Background
Nepal has a long history of irrigation, including government and farmer-managed irrigation systems that are labor- and skill-intensive. Widespread male migration has important effects on Nepalese society.
Gender relations in households and communities play a formative role in how tenure rights — such as access to, use, and management of land and various natural resources — are practiced across multifunctional landscapes.
Empowerment (https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-7660.00125) is the process by which people gain the ability to make strategic choices in their lives and to act upon them, when they previously could n
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.
How do perceptions of relative economic status affect gender attitudes regarding women’s economic participation and decision-making authority in their household and community? Several recent trends highlight the importance of this question.