dynamics of intensification and diversification within and outside agriculture, in contexts where women have much poorer access … narratives of agricultural change by adding insights from gender and village-level studies of agrarian change. It argues that …

. Controlling for selected socio-economic variables, we find that women have significantly less holdings in risky assets. This … demographic change, poverty in old age disproportionally affects women. Given these developments, private investment is becoming … are still gender differences in investment behaviour. We conduct a thorough literature review and empirical analysis based …

assets being actively protected or due to the difficulty of agreeing on this coping strategy, and that women´s asset holdings …Assets are an important means of coping with adverse events in developing countries but the role of gendered ownership … is not yet fully understood. This paper investigates changes in assets owned by the household head, his spouse, or …

of assets and qualitative in-depth anthropological findings on the complex underlying gender relations both contribute to … time. This paper seeks to examine the relationship not only between gender and urban income poverty but also, more … importantly, between gender and urban asset accumulation, illustrating how the combination of quantitative econometric measurement …

-varying characteristics, the paper finds that the share of women who are separated or divorced increases significantly after the Globo signal …

The relationship between empowerment and entrepreneurship in collective societies is, in our view, insufficiently … examined. Accepted definitions of empowerment and the assumptions underlying programs and research designs based on them result … in outcomes that self-fulfil and, as a result, disappoint. Several issues are prevalent: the empowerment potential of …

identify the most critical purposes of using social media by responding to women's attitudes according to age and their …

The area of women's empowerment has attracted increasing attention among a wide range of interest groups, from authors … understandings of women's empowerment in the literature and to discuss empirical evidence from NGO projects in the field. A … findings highlighted four common understandings of women's empowerment including granting women a voice, challenging existing …

Introduction: Migration has contributed to the economic empowerment of women in West Africa. Empowerment can be … of entrepreneurial empowerment (perceived as positive economic impact even when women did not participate in the decision … accepted as a way to open up entrepreneurial opportunities that could contradict the established gender norm. Thus, in some …