Essays about: "intra-household decision making"

Showing result 6 - 8 of 8 essays containing the words intra-household decision making.

  1. 6. Access to Financial Services and Women´s Empowerment

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik

    Author : Tobias Lindé; Madelene Spencer; [2015-09-07]
    Keywords : microfinance; empowerment; VSL; Malawi;

    Abstract : The objective of this study is to evaluate the relationship between membership in a Village Savings and Loans Association (VSLA) in rural Malawi and the empowerment of women. The data used in this study was collected through individual interviews with members of a VSLA operated by a local NGO. READ MORE

  3. 7. “Somos pocas, pero buenas”: A case study of women’s participation within community forestry in the Maya Biosphere Reserve, Guatemala

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management

    Author : Elena Anne Baumanns; [2015]
    Keywords : community forestry; women’s participation; feminist political ecology; power relations; gendered rights and responsibilities; Guatemala; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Community forestry has been promoted as a participatory approach for conservation and sustainable development. Yet, community forestry was found to exclude women in different contexts around the globe. READ MORE

  4. 8. Determinants of Women's Empowerment in Rural India: An Intra-Household Study

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Julia Wiklander; [2010]
    Keywords : Probit Model; Household determinants; Social norms; Gender-related constraints; Women s empowerment; Tamil Nadu; Uttar Pradesh; India; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : Using household level data from the Survey on the Status of Women and Fertility provided by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Population Studies Centre of University of Pennsylvania, the purpose of this thesis is to investigate the determinants of women’s empowerment and the presence of gender-related constraints within the household in rural India. Households from two states of different demographic development, Uttar Pradesh in the North and Tamil Nadu in the South are included in the data. READ MORE