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WOMEN EMPOWERMENT AND MICRO‐CREDIT ACTIVITIES IN RURAL NEPAL:EVIDENCE FROM KATHMANDU AND SINDHUPLACHOWK DISTRICTS
rural women economic lives
2016/1/28
The overall aim this article is to examine the role of micro credit and its impact on socio‐
economic lives of rural women in Lapsephedi, Nanglebhare and Fatakshila Village
Development Committees (V...
Government Programs Can Improve Local Labor Markets:Evidence from State Enterprise Zones,Federal Empowerment Zones and Federal Enterprise Communities
Government Programs ocal Labor Markets State Enterprise Zones Federal Empowerment Zones Federal Enterprise Communities
2015/9/18
Federal and state governments spend well over a billion dollars a year on programs that encourage employment development in disadvantaged labor markets through the use of subsidies and tax credits. In...
Relationship between women’s socioeconomic status and empowerment in Burkina Faso: A focus on participation in decision-making and experience of domestic violence
Women’s empowerment decision-making in the household
2015/7/27
Since 2009, the Burkina Faso government has launched a national policy to empower women and to better integrate gender equity in policies, actions, and programs. This paper explores how socioeconomic ...
Women’s Education, Empowerment, and Contraceptive Use in sub-Saharan Africa: Findings from Recent Demographic and Health Surveys
Education empowerment contraceptive use
2015/7/27
Fertility remains higher and contraceptive levels are substantially lower in Sub-Saharan Africa than elsewhere in the developing world. In this paper we use information on individuals and couples prov...
Contraceptive Uptake Among Married Women in Uganda: Does Empowerment Matter?
Women Empowerment Contraceptives
2015/7/27
Although contraceptive prevalence increased from 24% to 30% between 2006 and 2011, this uptake is still below global level of 62% and low levels of women empowerment could be a factor. Data was extrac...
The Association between Spousal Gender Based Violence and Women’s Empowerment among Currently Married Women aged 15-49 in Zimba- bwe: Evidence from the 2010-11 Zimbabwe Demographic and Health Survey
Spousal violence Emotional violence
2015/7/27
In Zimbabwe, levels of spousal Gender-Based Violence (GBV) remain a health, human rights and development concern. The main objective of this study was to investigate the association between spousal GB...
International Seminar on Gender and Empowerment in the 21st century in Africa
Gender and Empowerment 21st century Africa
2015/6/26
The IUSSP Scientific Panel on Gender, in collaboration with the African Populationand Health Research Center (APHRC) organized a seminar on “Gender and empowerment in the 21st Century in Africa.” The ...
Female Empowerment and Demographic Processes:Moving Beyond Cairo
Female Empowerment Demographic Processes Moving Beyond Cairo
2015/6/25
To some participants in the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo in 1994, it may have seemed that the concept of women’s empowerment appeared out of nowhere, a nebulo...
The Social Phenomenon of Women Empowerment in Nigeria: A Theoretical Approach
Empowerment Women Participation Gender Issues Women’s Status Policy
2013/2/19
Women have continued to make immense contributions to development in Nigeria. These landmark achievements have not been without challenges, hence the predominance of women issues at local, national an...
Hands-On Parent Empowerment (HOPE) Project: Comparing Implementation in Social Service Centres and Preschools
Child Development School Readiness Early Intervention Effective Intervention Preschoolers
2013/1/31
This project examined the effectiveness and implementation of an early intervention program for children from new immigrant families in Hong Kong in two delivery settings, preschools and social servic...
The Social Phenomenon of Women Empowerment in Nigeria: A Theoretical Approach
Empowerment Women Participation Gender Issues Women’s Status Policy
2013/9/5
Women have continued to make immense contributions to development in Nigeria. These landmark achievements have not been without challenges, hence the predominance of women issues at local, national an...
Foreign Direct Investment, Black Economic Empowerment and Labour Productivity in South Africa
FDI spillover labour productivity black economic empowerment firm South Africa
2012/10/22
The impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on domestically owned firms in developing countries has been widely debated in the literature. It has been argued that FDI provides access to advanced tec...
Does Female Empowerment Promote Economic Development?
female empowerment gender equality development theory of the household marital bargaining
2012/10/31
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 is good economic policy? ...
This paper looks at leisure,an aspect of life that is generally neglected in the demographic literature. It argues that not only are access to and use of leisure as gendered as other frequently discus...