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Impact of women’s participation in disaster recovery on their lives: A case study from Pakistan
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This study used a qualitative case study to examine women’s participation in disaster recovery in Union Council Langarpura, Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) state of Pakistan. The specific objectives of this research were to: Analyze how women have participated in the recovery process; Identify the...
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Spring 2016
Women’s land rights are increasingly advocated as an empowerment tool to spur development outcomes. However, empirical evidence of this relationship is limited. In this study we use data from peasant communities in rural Peru to explore the effect of the intra-household allocation of inherited...
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The Ethnography of Violent Economies: Neoliberalism, Microcredit NGOs, Power Inequalities, and Capability Deprivations in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh
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During the 1990s, microcredit, also known as “microfinance,” received global recognition as an effective social and economic development tool from major international development institutions and donor agencies, including the World Bank and Asian Development Bank. The incorporation of microcredit...