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.
Fecha: 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
Fecha: 2015