Working Paper

• Discrimination in employment
• Economic policy
• Structural adjustment (Economic policy)

Working Paper

• Equality and inequality
• Families
• Women

Working Paper

States’ governance of gender is not unidirectional. In addition to ‘stagnation’ and ‘progress’, there can be an active reversal of rights already granted to women. Using the case of abortion rights in El Salvador, this paper investigates the...

• Abortion
• Women
• Crime

Report

The ReCom – Research and Communication on Foreign Aid – programme produced 247 original studies. More than 300 researchers from 59 countries came together and provided evidence on what does and could work in development, and what can be transferred...

• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• Economic development
• Economic growth

Journal Special Issue

This issue analyses the impact of globalization on Africa and present an overview of the six Africa case studies.

• Globalization
• Poverty
• Poverty measurement

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Economics of climate change impacts on developing countries

• Agriculture
• Econometric models (Economic development)
• Land tenure

Journal Special Issue

In this article we provide an introduction to the papers in the special section of this edition of the European Journal of Development Research. We start by framing the challenges posed by female entrepreneurship to the research community, note some...

• Economic development
• Entrepreneurship
• Women

Working Paper

This study examines the role of women's intra-household status relative to men in children's food security in Pakistan. Data from the 1991 Pakistan Integrated Household Survey (PIHS) yield a measure of evidence of a positive relation between women's...

• Children
• Equality and inequality
• Food security

Working Paper

This is a brief sketch of the Self Employed Women’s Association’s (SEWA) three-decade-long journey from the local to global and informal to formal sector in search of finding work and income for now 720,000 women workers. Though SEWA remains a local...

• Informal sector
• Poverty
• Women

Working Paper

Gender earnings differentials in urban China by region and their changes during the first decade of economic reform are examined. It is found that the female–male earnings ratio increased during the early stage of reform. The male earnings premium...

• Economic development
• Urban economics
• Wage differentials

Working Paper

The food security scenario in South Asia has witnessed rapid progress over the last few decades, yet nutrition outcomes, especially those related to women and children, have failed to keep pace. This paper contends that the role of women in providing...

• Agricultural labourers
• Food security
• Poverty

Working Paper

This paper investigates the effect of a food subsidy programme in India on child malnutrition by addressing the following linked questions using household survey data that includes information on usage of the public distribution system. First, does...

• Children
• Health
• Malnutrition

Working Paper

The paper examines the linkages between gender of household heads, education and household poverty in Nigeria between 1980 and 1996. Data analyzed were obtained from four national consumer expenditure surveys conducted in Nigeria in 1980, 1985, 1992...

• Education
• Equality and inequality
• Income distribution

Working Paper

Although recent developments greatly increased interest in African land tenure, few models to address these issues at the required scale have been identified or evaluated. Rwanda’s nation-wide land tenure regularization programme is of great interest...

• Finance (Agriculture)
• Land tenure
• Laws and legislation (Land use)

Working Paper

This paper discusses the rationale as well as the challenges involved when constructing gender-related indicators of well-being. It argues that such indicators are critically important but that their construction involves a number of conceptual and...

• Discrimination in employment
• Households
• Income distribution

Working Paper

Using original survey data on Senegal that include an individualized measure of consumption, we study the role played by land inheritance, other bequests and parental background as influences on an adult’s economic welfare and economic activities...

• Consumption
• Equality and inequality
• Land tenure