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Environmental and Gender Impacts of Land Tenure Regularization in Africa:Pilot Evidence from Rwanda
Article / Working Paper, Governance and Gender, Land Governance, DonorAlthough recent developments have increased interest in African land tenure, Rwanda’s nation-wide Land Tenure Regularization (LTR) program is one of a few models to address these issues at the required scale. A rigorous empirical analysis that is used to evaluate the pilot for this program highlights four main effects; namely, (i) significant and large investment impacts that are particularly...
To Measure is to Know? A Comparative Analysis of Gender Indices
Article / Working Paper, Governance and Gender, Civil SocietyThe paper presents a comparative analysis of five cross country composite gender indices. Although there is a relatively high correlation between the indices, the overlap of underlying indicators is low. Country rankings, both at the top and at the bottom have parallels but are quite distinct. The differences are explained in two ways: methodologically and theoretically. The methodological...
Are women economically more empowered in Left-run municipalities? A study of Self Help Groups in West Bengal, India
Article / Working Paper, Asia and the Pacific, Governance and Gender, Local Governance and Decentralization, Political Parties, Academic/Think TankIn this article from the Munich Personal RePEc Archive, Zakir Husain, Diganta Mukherjee, and Mousumi Dutta pose the question who controls the income earned by Self Help Group (SHG) members from group activities – they, or their husbands? The answer indicates the level of economic empowerment attained by SHG members. This paper examines whether identity of person...
Comparative Study of Contents of Civil Service Statutes
Article / Working Paper, Civil Society, Governance and Gender, Public Administration, Other UN AgencyThis is the fifth working paper in the Document Series of the Department for Government, Labour Law and Administration (GLLAD), and represents the first to focus on issues of concern in the field of labour law formulation and revision. It responds to the 2000-01 Programme and Budget work item – and operational objective (No. 4cb) of strengthening the partners to social dialogue –...
Human Development in Chile 2010 Gender: the challenges of equality
Article / Working Paper, Governance and Gender, Latin America and the Carribean, UNDP ProducedThis report aims to contribute to the assessment of the situation today and to the changes that have occurred regarding the issue of gender equality. Chile has made considerable progress in this area in recent decades. This is reflected by the increased equality of men and women’s skills and opportunities ,...
Variation in Corruption between Mexican States Elaborating the Gender Perspective
Article / Working Paper, Corruption, Governance and Gender, Latin America and the Carribean, Academic/Think TankThis paper focuses on subnational variation in Mexico. Data from Transparency International indicate that corruption is ten times more likely to occur in requesting or receiving public services in the state most hit by corruption than in the state least affected. There is also considerable variation in the numbers of women elected, and the subnational analysis confirms previous cross-country...
Gender-responsive budgeting as a tool for alternative economic planning
Article / Working Paper, Asia and the Pacific, Governance and Gender, Civil SocietyWhen someone last counted, in 2002 it seems, more than 60 countries were doing Gender-Responsive Budgeting (GRB), and since then the numbers have increased. Sixty countries is a significant number given that GRB is a tool that emerged only in the 1980s. It is now in the gaze of the global community, not as much for what it has done but more so for the potential it offers. What actually does GRB...
Statistical evaluation of spatial concentration of unemployment by gender
Article / Working Paper, Europe and CIS, Governance and Gender, Academic/Think TankThis paper studies the spatial distribution of unemployment by gender, in the counties of Romania, in 2008.The Lorenz curve and Gini index are used to identify a pattern of spatial concentration of unemployment, differentiated by gender. Evaluation of gender differences in unemployment spatial concentration model shows significant differences. There is a greater spatial concentration of...