The international research project aims to identify the socio-economic and institutional factors that condition asset ownership among women, and hence economic equality between men and women. The specific objectives of the study are to collect empirical information on: i) the gender distribution of…

Resp. Carmen Diana Deere y Jackeline Contreras Díaz
Date: 2011

Este estudio ofrece una visión dinámica sobre el fenómeno de la pobreza, entendida como un resultado de la exclusión laboral y de ciudadanía social que sufren los hogares. A su vez, la exclusión es entendida también como la expresión más depurada de la desigualdad lo que lleva a una obstrucción de…

Resp. por Juan Pablo Pérez Sáinz
Date: 2009

This study explores the shocks experienced by households and the coping strategies employed by them. Women and men living in the same household may not always experience shocks or be impacted by them in the same way. The coping strategies employed depend on the nature of the shock, who experiences…

Resp. Cheryl Doss, Abena D. Oduro, Carmen Diana Deere, Hema Swaminathan, William Baah-Boateng and Suchitra J. Y.
Date: 2015

While there is a substantial and growing literature on household finance in developing countries, less is known about the borrowing behaviour of individual women and men within households: how much they borrow and for what purpose (e.g., to invest in an asset or pay for an expense), where they…

Resp. Caren Grown, Carmen Diana Deere, Zachary Catanzarite, Abena D. Oduro, Suchitra J. Y., Hema Swaminathan y Louis Boakye-Yiadom
Date: 2015

La presente investigación, cuyos hallazgos iniciales se presentan en este informe, es parte del proyecto internacional titulado “En nombre de ella: Midiendo la brecha de género en la propiedad de activos en Ecuador, India y Ghana”, seleccionado entre los 45 proyectos internacionales para ser…

Resp. Carmen Diana Deere ; Jackeline Contreras Díaz
Date: 2011

This field guide outlines the key lessons learned from implementing household surveys that collected individual level asset ownership data in four countries. Three of the surveys, in Ecuador, Ghana, and Karnataka, India were implemented by the In Her Name: Measuring the Gender Asset Gap Project…

Resp. por Cheryl Doss ... [et.al]
Date: 2011