Do Women’s Land Rights Promote Empowerment and Child Health in Nepal?

Allendorf, Keera

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2006.12.005

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“…In fact, there has been a number of theoretical and empirical studies that focus on women's empowerment or empowerment of the poor and found positive well-being outcomes of increases in agency (e.g. Thomas, 1997;Hindin, 2000;Allendorf, 2007a;Kim et al 2007). In contrast, there is very little literature that considers empowerment outside of this gender context, which is the focus of our study.…”

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Determinants of Empowerment in a Capability-Based Poverty Approach: Evidence from The Gambia

2015

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in Determinants of Empowerment in a Capability Based Poverty Approach:Evidence from The Gambia Sofia Karina Trommlerová (IHEID Geneva)Stephan Klasen (University of Göttingen)Ortrud Lessmann (Helmut-Schmidt-Universität Hamburg) August 2013 AbstractAlthough empowerment is seen as intrinsically important and instrumentally valuable to escape poverty, there is very little research on the empirical drivers of empowerment. Using custom-made household-level information and using advanced econometric techniques that also correct for endogeneity, we examine what empowers individuals in The Gambia to change their own lives and affect changes in their communities. We show that people's self-reported capabilities are the most important drivers of empowerment. We also show that respondents' confidence that they will be the most powerful agents in their lives is higher for men, foreigners, people free of health limitations, and younger people. JEL codes: I30, I32, O15, Z13, Z18Keywords: empowerment, agency, capability approach, The Gambia, correction for endogeneity AcknowledgmentsThe authors would like to thank Jean-Louis Arcand for including their questions to the CDDP survey he was in charge of in The Gambia and Eric Djimeu for conducting the survey and for helpful comments.

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Determinants of Empowerment in a Capability-Based Poverty Approach: Evidence from The Gambia

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“…As a result, more male were benefiting from 'cash for work' programme of WFP while more female were from 'food for work'. Allendorf (2007) stated that education played sustainable role for food security. In the region, education and skills among girls were limited due to the institutions of patrilocality.…”

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Gender and Food Insecurity: Food Entitlement in Resource Scarce Areas in the Far-Western Region of Nepal

Bishokarma¹,

Amir²

2014

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In spite of being the principal producers of food, women and child girls are often suffer from malnutrition and hunger. Most of the discussions regarding their food insecurity have focused so far on the intra-household access and distribution of food. This article analyzes the broader spectrum of gender dimensions of inter and intra-household entitlement to food. This study conducted in the far-western region of Nepal, which is established as a resource poor region, shows the institutions such as patrilinearity, patriarchal inheritance law, patrilocality and early marriage, the cultural norms, discriminatory food distributional practices, caste and ethnicity still function among some categories women in terms of land ownerships, share tenancy, acquiring sufficient and nutritious food, wage and employment, and credit, resulting their entitlement failure. At a time, this article discusses how new initiatives such as market, women's self-help agencies, Government's new policy and NGOs have been playing crucial role to change in the institutions that resulted into women's capability enhancement.

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“…The finding is consistent with study from Nepal which found that women who own land are significantly more likely to have the final say in household decisions (OR=1.48), a measure of empowerment. Similarly, children of mothers who own land are significantly less likely to be severely underweight (AOR=0.54) (23). On the other hand a study from Uganda found that land ownership exhibited no differentials with child stunting (24).…”

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Women's Empowerment and Nutritional Status of their Children: A Community-based Study from Villages of Bhaktapur District, Nepal

Shiwakoti¹,

Devkota²,

Paudel³

2017

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Under-nutrition is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality among children. Since women are often the primary caregivers, their empowerment can influence nutritional status of their children. The objective of the study was to assess relationship between women's empowerment and nutritional status of their children. A cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out in randomly selected five villages of Bhaktapur district. A total of 402 children aged six to 59 months were selected using systematic random sampling and their mothers were interviewed. Women's empowerment was assessed using composite index. Anthropometric measurements were obtained using height board and digital scale. Multivariate logistic analysis was carried out. The results show that among 402 mothers, 18 percent were low empowered whereas 27 percent were highly empowered. The prevalence of underweight, stunting and wasting of children was 13, 19 and 7 percent respectively. Low empowerment of women was found to be positively associated with underweight (AOR=5.070; 95 percent CI: 1.885-13.638), stunting (AOR=3.031; 95 percent CI: 1.281-7.141) and wasting (AOR=10.056; 95 percent CI: 1.127-89.693) of their children. Women with low empowerment had children that were more underweight, stunted and wasted. These results suggest that improving women empowerment could have a positive impact on nutritional status of their children.

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Do Women’s Land Rights Promote Empowerment and Child Health in Nepal?

Cited by 402 publications

References 17 publications

Determinants of Empowerment in a Capability-Based Poverty Approach: Evidence from The Gambia

Determinants of Empowerment in a Capability-Based Poverty Approach: Evidence from The Gambia

Gender and Food Insecurity: Food Entitlement in Resource Scarce Areas in the Far-Western Region of Nepal

Women's Empowerment and Nutritional Status of their Children: A Community-based Study from Villages of Bhaktapur District, Nepal

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