Publication year: 2011 Source: World Development, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 6 May 2011 Mateusz, Filipski , J., Edward Taylor , Siwa, Msangi We construct a disaggregated rural economywide model with a focus on gender and immigration as well as on the allocation of time to wage work, household production activities, and housework (reproduction). >> Read more
Publication: Effects of Free Trade on Women and Immigrants CAFTA and the Rural Dominican Republic
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Event & Webcast: Renewing IDB’s commitment to gender equality and women’s empowerment
April 6, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Date: 07 Apr 2011 Time: 9:30 AM Location: Washington DC, United States Venue: IDB Auditorium/EVICC, 1330 New York Avenue, N.W. Time: 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.* Keynote Speaker: Michelle Bachelet, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director for UN Women Guest Speaker: Vanda Pignato, Secretary of Social Inclusion and First Lady of El Salvador The Inter-American >> Read more
Publication: Gender and sustainable forest management in East Africa and Latin America
February 22, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Mwangi, E., R. Meinzen-Dick, and Y. Sun. 2011. Gender and sustainable forest management in East Africa and Latin America. Ecology and Society 16(1): 17. http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol16/iss1/art17
Event (DC): “Women in Agriculture– The Contribution of Women to Agriculture and Food Security in the Americas.”
October 27, 2010 by Leave a Comment
The Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) and The Organization of American States (OAS) invites you to join us for the 5th Annual ‘IICA DAY ‘2010 Thursday November, 18th 2010 9:30 a.m.
Publications: Guatemala’s Indigenous Women in Resistance: On the frontline of the communities struggle to defend mother earth and her natural resources
July 26, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Guatemala’s Indigenous Women in Resistance: On the frontline of the communities struggle to defend mother earth and her natural resources, Peace Brigades International (PBI), May 2010, by María Giovanna Teijido and Wiebke Schramm This report examines in details the roots of indigenous communities’ opposition to the installation of large cement plants, mines or hydroelectric projects on >> Read more
News: Giving Women Farmers a Boost in Nicaragua
June 2, 2010 by Leave a Comment
By José Adán Silva Source: IPS Genderwire MANAGUA, Jun 1, 2010 (IPS) - Josefina Rodríguez very nearly lost her life trying to protect the small plot of farmland in rural Nicaragua that allows her to support her family. Twelve years ago her husband wanted to sell the land, and when she stood up to him, >> Read more
Publication: Closing the gender land gap The effects of land-titling for women in Peru
May 27, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Authors: Daniela Orge Fuentes and Henrik Wiig ABSTRACT: Land formalization reforms in developing countries are often criticized for cementing historically unequal property rights between the sexes. The Peruvian formalization law is gender neutral and was only supposed to formalize existing informal property rights. However, protests from the feminist movement led the implementing agency to favour >> Read more
Academic Publications: Mothers’ human capital and the intergenerational transmission of poverty
March 30, 2010 by Leave a Comment
CPRC working paper on: The impact of mothers’ intellectual human capital and long-run nutritional status on children’s human capital Guatemala Jere R. Behrman Alexis Murphy Agnes Quisumbing Kathryn Yount Abstract Many prior studies find significant cross-sectional positive ordinary least squares (OLS) associations between maternal human capital (usually maternal schooling attainment) and children’s human capital (usually >> Read more
