Poverty and Applied Micro Seminar Series Matthias Doepke (Northwestern University) Michele Tertilt (Stanford University) presented by Matthias Doepke Wednesday, April 20, 2011 Room MC3-570, from 12:30 to 2:00 PM Empirical evidence suggests that money in the hands of mothers (as opposed to their husbands) benefits children. Does this observation imply that targeting transfers to women >> Read more
Event & Webcast: Renewing IDB’s commitment to gender equality and women’s empowerment
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: A Silent ‘Revolution’? Women’s Empowerment in Rural Tamil Nadu
Staffan Lindberg, , Venkatesh B athreya, , R Vidyasagar , Goran Djurfeldt , A Rajagopal One of the most significant social changes over the past 25 years in Tamil Nadu is the entry of women into the local political bodies at the village and village union levels through the 33% reservation system. Simultaneously, women are >> Read more
World Bank Justice for the Poor publication, Increasing Access to Justice for Women, the Poor and Those Living in Remote Areas– An Indonesia Case Study.
Increasing Access to Justice for Women, the Poor and Those Living in Remote Areas: An Indonesia Case Study. Justice for the Poor gender work in Indonesia has been focusing on access to justice for women and community legal empowerment. Women's ability to access religious courts is a crucial step in opening up their access to >> Read more
Funding: PhD Researcher Inequalities in feeding behaviour and wellbeing (HAPS) (1,0 fte) (211072)
Organisation The PhD researcher will be based in the Department of Demography at the Faculty of Spatial Sciences. The Departments research programme, entitled Population Change and Health, Culture and Space, has a strong focus on the topic of Healthy Ageing, and in turn plays an important role in the Faculty's overall research programme Towards Well-being, >> Read more
Collecting good practices – gender and technologies for agriculture and rural livelihoods
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR), in collaboration with the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), are collecting innovative and promising approaches that: (a) promote access to and uptake of technologies by both women and men small-scale farmers in developing countries (with a particular focus on women); >> Read more
Publication: Gender Implications of Biofuels Expansion in Africa: The Case of Mozambique
We use a gendered dynamic CGE model to assess the implications of biofuels expansion in a low-income, land-abundant setting. Mozambique is chosen as a representative case. We compare scenarios with different gender employment intensities in producing jatropha feedstock for biodiesel. Under all scenarios, biofuels investments accelerate GDP growth and reduce poverty. However, a stronger trade-off >> Read more
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Event (DC): Female Entrepreneurship: What do we know? What is next?
Female entrepreneurship has received growing attention in recent years, both at the academic and policy level. The role of women in creating, running, and growing businesses is recognized as fundamental for growth and poverty reduction. However, women entrepreneurs tend to face disproportionately larger obstacles in accessing credit, training, networks and information in addition to barriers >> Read more
Event (DC): Georgetown Law’s Leadership and Advocacy for Women in Africa (LAWA) Fellowship Program In cooperation with Congresswomen Louise Slaughter Invite you to a Congressional Briefing addressing Women’s Human Rights in Africa
Speakers Makda Tessema (Ethiopia) What Next? The Practice of Female Genital Mutilation in Ethiopia: Legal Boundaries and Cultural Norms Zaamu Kaboneke (Uganda) Climate Change and Women’s Human Rights in Uganda Rachel Muthoga (Kenya) 2007-2008 Post-Election Violence: The Failure of the Kenyan Legal System to Protect Women from Sexual and Gender Based Violence Gladys Mbuya (Cameroon) >> Read more
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