Browse Items (33 total)

  • Collection: Economic Empowerment, Poverty, and Development

ICTD_SumBrief#6_OnlineNew2.pdf
This brief explains what we have learned about gender and taxation and looks at: why taxation is relevant for gender; where gender is relevant in taxation; bias in tax structures; amongst other themes.

e-Global-Financial-Crisis-and-Women-in-West-Africa.pdf
This series of briefs entitled The crisis’ impact on women’s rights, published by the , includes sub-regional perspectives on the impacts seen to date of the current crisis on women and women’s rights as well as those likely to come. These…

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Empowering Adolescent Girls in Developing Countries explores the detrimental impact of discriminatory gender norms on adolescent girls’ lives across very different contexts. Grounded in four years of in-depth research in Ethiopia, Nepal, Uganda and…

Discussion-paper-Women-migrant-workers-and-changing-family-and-community-relations-in-Nepal-en.pdf
Pourakhi, an organization established by women returnees in 2003, has collected more than 1,700 case studies on returnee women migrant workers in Nepal. This paper delves into 307 of these, as well as a consultation with 14 returnee migrant women…

The-Business-Case-for-Womens-Economic-Empowerment.pdf
Presents findings of a study that investigated corporate-funded women’s economic empowerment programs and includes an integrated framework that the private sector can adopt to increase return on investment and enhance women's economic advancement.

BSR_ICRW_Building_Effective_Womens_Economic_Empowerment_Strategies-.pdf
Report that draws on insights gathered from interviews with 10 multinational companies actively engaged in advancing women's economic empowerment, as well as a comprehensive review of the latest literature and leading company practices and programs.

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speakingout.pdf
Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Annual Women's Studies Conference held October 29-31, 1998 at UW-Eau Claire - a feminist analysis of the ongoing debates
about welfare reform, and the related issue of women’s economic security.

buen vivir.pdf
This article introduces Buen Vivir both as a concept and in its implementation in public policies in Bolivia. The notion that Buen Vivir is gender neutral is examined in light of the fact that the main challenges are dismantling patriarchal power…

UN-Women-gender-and-economics-training-manual-en.pdf
This manual on gender and economics is intended to provide basic- and intermediate-level training to development practitioners, including governments and policy and programme staff in international development agencies.

IMPACCT_Synthesis_Webready.pdf
The Impact on Marriage: Program Assessment of Conditional Cash Transfers (IMPACCT) study by the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) adds to the existing evidence on CCTs as a possible solution to delay the age of marriage and improve…
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