Gendered perspectives on economic growth and development in sub-Saharan Africa

Seguino, Stéphanie; Were, Maureen

doi:10.35188/unu-wider/2014/777-6

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“…Urbanization brings economic and demographic changes; typically increasing education and wage-labor opportunities for women, reducing fertility and spousal age gap, as well as disrupting traditional patrilocal residence systems (Martine et al, 2013;World Bank Group 2018). These changes may be particularly impactful as the region is also characterized by variable, but generally high levels of gender inequality and patriarchal ideology marked by male dominance and regulation of women's activities, labor, and movement (Seguino & Were, 2013;United Nations Development Programme, 2012). With new economic opportunities and parallel demographic shifts causing deviations from long-established norms, increasing women's power and independence, it might be anticipated that urbanization will also reduce male violence against women.…”

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confidence: 99%

Positive Correlation Between Women’s Status and Intimate Partner Violence Suggests Violence Backlash in Mwanza, Tanzania

Kilgallen

Schaffnit

Kumogola

et al. 2021

J Interpers Violence

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Urbanization in low and middle-income nations is characterized by economic and demographic shifts largely understood to be beneficial to women’s empowerment. These changes include increased education and wage-labor opportunities, a disruption of traditional patrilocal residence systems, and reductions in spousal age gap and fertility. However, such changes may drive a “violence backlash,” with men increasing intimate partner violence (IPV) in efforts to challenge women’s shifting status. To date, tests of this idea primarily relate to women’s changing economic status, with less known about the demographic correlates of IPV in urbanizing settings. Addressing this, we conducted a cross-sectional study of IPV behavior and attitudes in an urbanizing community in Mwanza, northern Tanzania ( n = 317). Consistent with a violence backlash, IPV was reported more often among women educated at higher levels than their husband, and women earning similar, rather than lower, wages to their husband were more likely to report that he condones IPV. These findings were independent of women’s absolute education and income. Furthermore, less frequent paternal kin contact, and relatively small spousal age gaps, generally understood to boost women’s empowerment, were associated with an increased risk of experiencing IPV. Less frequent paternal kin contact was also associated with an increased likelihood that a husband condones IPV. Contrary to our predictions, relatively lower fertility, generally linked to higher women’s empowerment, did not predict IPV behavior and women with high, rather than low, fertility were more likely to report that their husband condones IPV. Overall, our results support the notion of a violence backlash corresponding to economic changes for women that accompany urbanization. In contrast, demographic changes associated with urbanization have more variable relationships. Drawing on these results, we suggest future research avenues for better understanding the vulnerability of women to IPV in urbanizing settings.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Positive Correlation Between Women’s Status and Intimate Partner Violence Suggests Violence Backlash in Mwanza, Tanzania

Kilgallen

Schaffnit

Kumogola

et al. 2021

J Interpers Violence

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“…The data required to investigate the gendered aspects of bad infrastructure as a binding constraint includes information on access to electricity, water and fuel disaggregated geographically. It is also possible to investigate this issue with macro data, as illustrated by Seguino and Were ()'s empirical estimation of the impact of public infrastructure on women's relative employment in sub‐Saharan Africa. Time use data can be mobilized to examine patterns of time allocation, mobility and other dimensions of infrastructure use.…”

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Engendering Growth Diagnostics: Examining Constraints to Private Investment and Entrepreneurship

Roncolato

Reksten

Grown³

2017

Development Policy Review

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The growth constraints diagnostic is a framework that seeks to help countries identify ‘binding’ constraints to private investment and entrepreneurship. Curiously absent from the diagnoses of the 31 countries to which this framework has been applied is any mention of gender gaps. This is surprising given the substantial literature providing evidence that gender gaps in education, income, employment, resource control and access affect economic growth and well‐being. This article ‘engenders’ the standard growth diagnostic process through disaggregating key variables by sex, reinterpreting nodes in the decision tree to reflect how they are intrinsically gendered, and adding new branches and nodes. It provides a theoretical framework for applying the gender growth diagnostic to help practitioners adopt it in country studies.

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“…While the empirical analysis of the health-economic growth nexus in Nigeria remains an ongoing debate, the renewed interest stems from the increasing shared recognition of gender roles in economic growth process. There is an increasing consensus within the development community that the development policies and actions that fail to address the disparities between male and female and take into account gender-specific growth determinants will have limited effectiveness and serious costs implication (Bertay et al 2020;Seguino and Were, 2014). The gender perspective to the economic growth effect of health in Nigeria is important for investigation as gender inequality including inequality in health remains significantly high and female comprises about half of the country's teeming population (World Bank, 2019;UNDP, 2019).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Reconsideration of the Health Status – Economic Growth Nexus: Evaluation of the Gender Differential Effect in Nigeria

Jemiluyi¹,

Alao-Owunna²

2020

EJEF

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It is tempting to say that the health status-economic growth literature in Nigeria is exhaustive due to the large body of extant studies. However, gaps exist on the gender perspective to the relationship between health status and economic growth in Nigeria as the literature largely examined the relationship at the aggregate. Therefore, this study seeks to explore the gender dimension to the health-economic growth nexus in Nigeria using gender-disaggregated data on longevity. Applying the dynamic ordinary least square (DOLS) to the time series for the period between 1981 and 2018, the findings suggest there is gendered difference in the effect of male and female life expectancy at birth on economic growth. Specifically, the results show that male life expectancy at birth is positively correlated to economic growth while there is evidence of a negative relationship between female life expectancy at birth and economic growth. Also, foreign investment and credit to private sector were found to be negatively correlated with economic growth while the urbanization rate was found to have economic growth premium in the study period.

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Gendered perspectives on economic growth and development in sub-Saharan Africa

Cited by 7 publications

References 52 publications

Positive Correlation Between Women’s Status and Intimate Partner Violence Suggests Violence Backlash in Mwanza, Tanzania

Positive Correlation Between Women’s Status and Intimate Partner Violence Suggests Violence Backlash in Mwanza, Tanzania

Engendering Growth Diagnostics: Examining Constraints to Private Investment and Entrepreneurship

A Reconsideration of the Health Status – Economic Growth Nexus: Evaluation of the Gender Differential Effect in Nigeria

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