This report presents the findings of research undertaken in six villages in two drought-prone districts of Andhra Pradesh, India, Mahbubnagar and Anantapur. The study, carried out by an international team led by FAO, used gender, institutional, and climate analyses to document the trends in more...
Publication: Global Gender Gap Report 2010
The Global Gender Gap Report 2010 According to the report’s index, the level of gender equality in France (46) has sunk as the number of women in ministerial positions has fallen over the past 12 months. The United States (19) closed its gender gap, rising 12 places to enter the top 20 for the first time >> Read more
Publication: Stemming girls’ chronic poverty: Catalysing development change by building just social institutions
The Chronic Poverty Research Centre (CPRC) is pleased to announce the release of the CPRC Gender report, Stemming girls' chronic poverty: Catalysing development change by building just social institutions. The report intends to feed into discussions on gender, poverty and the MDGs. With a focus on girls, chronic poverty and social justice, it aims to >> Read more
PUBLICATION: Women and Landed Property in Urban India
This paper examines land tenure in informal urban settlements in India from a gender perspective through field research conducted in Ahmedabad in collaboration with the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA). The author describes the formal and informal tenure arrangements that were in place in these settlements and analyses their implications for women. She proceeds to raise >> Read more
Publication: “Gender Inequality and the MDGs: What are the Missing Dimensions?”
In view of the MDG summit in New York next week, this paper sheds light on the bottlenecks that continue to hinder progress across all the MDG targets. Using the OECD Development Centre’s Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI), our research finds that the countries with the highest levels of discrimination against women are also >> Read more
Publication: Natural Resource Managment :The Impact of Gender and Social Issues
This book reveals how innovation in natural resource management can contribute to rural poverty reduction. Drawing from research throughout eastern and southern Africa, the contributing authors present a synthesis of lesson from both policy and practice. They look at various multi-stakeholder more...
Publication: Does Social Capital Build Women’s Assets?
Neha Kumar and Agnes Quisumbing This paper investigates the long–term impact of agricultural technologies, disseminated using different implementation modalities, on men’s and women’s asset accumulation in rural Bangladesh. Data were collected in 1996–97 to examine the effects of the adoption of new vegetable varieties and polyculture fishpond management technologies on household resource allocation, incomes, and >> Read more
Publication: Gender & Value Chains
The overall purpose of this study is to examine which gender issues are important when and where in value chains – based on findings of existing evaluations complemented by other relevant studies. The focus in this report is on development interventions that explicitly or implicitly employ a value chain approach. Coverage is not limited to >> Read more
Publication: Who Should be Interviewed in Surveys of Household Income?
Monica Fisher, Jeffrey Reimer and Edward Carr. World Development 38.7 This study tests the null hypothesis that it is sufficient to interview only the household head to obtain accurate information on household income. Results show that using a husband’s estimate of his wife’s income does not produce statistically reliable results for poverty analysis. Estimates of >> Read more
Publication: Gender Disparities in Africa’s Labor Market
Gender inequality in the labor market remains a pressing problem of contemporary Africa. Available evidence shows that in several countries of the region women are less likely to be in paid work, are disproportionately concentrated in informal and precarious employment, and are paid substantially less. This novel study, a collaboration between the World Bank and >> Read more
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