Poverty reduction strategies
- The gender implications of pension reforms. General remarks and evidence from selected countries
- This paper critically analyses the gender dimensions of pension schemes, drawing detailed examples from pension reform schemes in Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic. The paper provides the analysis along two axes: structures regulating the access to benefits and conditions that determine benefit levels. The paper highlights some of the most significant features of pension systems that have a gender impact.
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- Female headed households and their children in the Gambia, the Philippines and Costa Rica
- ( S. Chant / LSE Research Online , 2007)
- Are women really the ‘poorest of the poor’, and are their children really disproportionately afflicted by an ‘inter-generational transmission of disadvantage’? A mounting...
- Insights on risk and protective factors for preventing Child Marriage
- ( S. Jain;K. Kurz / International Center for Research on Women, USA , 2007)
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One in seven girls in the developing world marries before the age of fifteen. Nearly half of the 331 million girls in developing countries are expected to marry by their 20th birthday. At this rate...
Time poverty in Lesotho: a gendered analysis
- ( D. Lawson / ESRC Global Poverty Research Group , 2007)
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Are there gender differences associated with the impact of infrastructure? This paper uses a large scale nationally representative survey to investigate both socio-economic determinants of time pov...
- Gender mainstreaming in Pakistan
- ( Eldis Document Store , 2007)
- What is gender mainstreaming and how can gender equality be achieved? This paper gives a brief introduction to gender and how mainstreaming relates to poverty reduction. It provides an overview of gen...
- What are the link between gender-based violence and HIV?
- ( , 2007)
- At the 2006 International Aids Conference a meeting was convened to explore the linkages between gender based violence (GBV) and HIV. Its objective was to understand common challenges and to inform r...
- Women's social exclusion from productive resources in Niger
- ( M. Diarra; M. Monimart / Drylands Programme, IIED , 2006)
- This paper is a summary of a case study on gender, land and decentralisation. It addresses how women in rural areas of Niger deal with pressure on land within changing agricultural production systems....
- Examining gender mainstreaming approaches in the World Food Programme
- ( Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children , 2006)
- The paper focuses on the existence and implementation of policies and tools used for mainstreaming gender in WFP, including targeting programmes and guidelines. It reviews how mainstreaming is monitor...
- Issues and challenges in achieving gender equality in education
- ( Oxfam , 2005)
- This introductory paper frames the issues and challenges to be faced in achieving gender equality and quality Education For All (EFA). The issues - which include not only ensuring access to education...
- Gender and institutions database
- ( J. Jütting; C. Morrisson; J. Dayton-Johnson; D. Drechsler / OECD Development Centre , 2006)
- The Gender, Institutions, and Development Data Base (GID) is a tool for researchers and policy makers to determine and analyse obstacles to women’s economic development. It covers a total of 162 count...
- The informal sector's impact on poverty reduction
- ( M. Chen; J. Vanek; J. Heintz / Economic and Political Weekly, India , 2006)
- The devastating impact of extreme and seemingly endless poverty at the individual, household, community, national and regional level is an inescapable truism of the 21st century. The authors of this p...
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