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  • Gender, remittances and asset accumulation in Ecuador and Ghana

    Gender, remittances and asset accumulation in Ecuador and Ghana
    Responsible: Carmen Diana Deere, Gina Alvarado, Abena D. Oduro y Louis Boakye-Yiadom

    Gender, remittances and asset accumulation in Ecuador and Ghana

    This paper explores whether women—as migrants or recipients of remittances—are able to accumulate physical and financial assets on par with men and, if not, the gendered constraints to this process. This question is important since ownership of assets is associated with women’s relative economic…

    Resp. Carmen Diana Deere, Gina Alvarado, Abena D. Oduro y Louis Boakye-Yiadom
    Date: 2015
  • Shocks, assets and social protection

    Shocks, assets and social protection
    Responsible: Cheryl Doss, Abena D. Oduro, Carmen Diana Deere, Hema Swaminathan, William Baah-Boateng and Suchitra J. Y.

    Shocks, assets and social protection

    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
  • Who borrows?

    Who borrows?
    Responsible: Caren Grown, Carmen Diana Deere, Zachary Catanzarite, Abena D. Oduro, Suchitra J. Y., Hema Swaminathan y Louis Boakye-Yiadom

    Who borrows?

    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
  • Acumulación de activos

    Acumulación de activos
    Autor: Deere, Carmen Diana
    Responsible: Carmen Diana Deere ; Jackeline Contreras Díaz

    Acumulación de activos

    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
  • Almacenamiento, transporte y peligrosidad de combustibles, productos químicos y radioactivos en el Distrito Metropolitano de Quito

    Almacenamiento, transporte y peligrosidad de combustibles, productos químicos y radioactivos en el Distrito Metropolitano de Quito
    Autor: Estacio, Jairo
    Responsible: Jairo Estacio

    Almacenamiento, transporte y peligrosidad de combustibles, productos químicos y radioactivos en el Distrito Metropolitano de Quito

    Este estudio es parte del programa “Sistema de Información y Riesgos en el Distrito Metropolitano de Quito” realizado en el marco de la cooperación científica y técnica entre el Municipio del Distrito Metropolitano de Quito (MDMQ) y el Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD – Ex ORSTOM).

    Resp. Jairo Estacio
    Date: septiembre 2001
  • Lessons from the field

    Lessons from the field
    Responsible: por Cheryl Doss ... [et.al]

    Lessons from the field

    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