Akhter Ahmed, http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0112-502X Ahmed, A.; http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0906-222X Bryan, Elizabeth; http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5429-1857 Quisumbing, Agnes
Bangladesh has some social safety net programs that transfer food to the poor, some that transfer cash, and some that provide a combination of both. This study evaluates the relative impacts of food and cash transfers on food security and livelihood outcomes among the ultra poor in Bangladesh. The p...
Bob Baulch
Contents: Foreword David Hulme Overview: Poverty Dynamics and Persistence in Africa and Asia Bob Baulch 1. Poverty Transitions, Shocks and Consumption in Rural Bangladesh, 1996-97 to 2006-07 Agnes Quisumbing 2. A Poor Life? Chronic Poverty and Downward Mobility in Rural Ethiopia, 1994 to 2004 Stefan...
Akhter Ahmed, Agnes Quisumbing, Mahbuba Nasreen, John Hoddinott et al.
Bangladesh has some social safety net programs that transfer food to the poor, some that transfer cash, and some that provide a combination of both. This study evaluates the relative impacts of food and cash transfers on food security and livelihood outcomes among the ultra poor in Bangladesh. The p...
Valerie Mueller, Agnes Quisumbing
Abstract Natural disasters devastate economies as they impede capital accumulation. The resilience of labour markets is crucial for the poor who rely on labour to reduce risk. We evaluate how the 1998 ‘flood of the century’ affected wages in Bangladesh. We find short-term declines in agricultural an...
Agnes Quisumbing
Agnes Quisumbing, Shalini Roy, Jemimah Njuki, Kakuly Tanvin et al.
Hazel Malapit, Kathryn Sproule, Chiara Kovarik, Ruth Meinzen‐Dick et al.
This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) baseline survey results, summarizing both findings from the WEAI survey and the relationships between the WEAI and various outcomes of interest to the US Government’s Feed the Future initiative. ...
Agnes Quisumbing, Ruth Meinzen‐Dick, Hazel Malapit
This introduction to a special section describes how a recently developed measure, the project-level Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI) can be used to assess empowerment impacts of agricultural development interventions in India and Bangladesh as well as broader changes in rural lab...
Agnes Quisumbing, Neha Kumar
This paper investigates the long-term impact of agricultural technologies, disseminated using different implementation modalities on men's and women's asset accumulation in rural Bangladesh. Panel data spanning a 10-year period are used to examine the effects of the adoption of new vegetable varieti...
Agnes Quisumbing, Neha Kumar, Julia Behrman
This background paper attempts to expand our understanding of the gender-differentiated impact of shocks on assets through a literature review on shocks and gendered asset dynamics and an analysis of new panel data (2007 and 2009) from Uganda and Bangladesh looking at the impact of negative shocks a...
Greg Seymour, Hazel Malapit, Agnes Quisumbing
This paper discusses the challenges associated with implementing time-use surveys among agricultural households in developing countries and offers advice on best practices for two common measurement methods: stylized questions and time diaries. Using data from Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Inde...
Hazel Malapit, Esha Sraboni, Agnes Quisumbing, Akhter Ahmed
Abstract This article examines the relationship between empowerment gaps between spouses and children's nutritional status and education using nationally representative data from the 2012 Bangladesh Integrated Household Survey. We measure relative empowerment of spouses using the recently developed ...
Narayan Das, Rabeya Yasmin, Jinnat Ara, Md. Kamruzzaman et al.
Caitlin Kieran, Kathryn Sproule, Agnes Quisumbing, Cheryl R. Doss
Using nationally representative data from Bangladesh, Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, and Vietnam, this paper investigates which individual and household characteristics influence men’s and women’s landownership across and within households. Often neglected in household-level statistics, married women in a...
Hazel Malapit, Crossley Pinkstaff, Kathryn Sproule, Chiara Kovarik et al.
The fifth Sustainable Development Goal—to “achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls”—reflects a growing consensus that these are key objectives of development policy in their own right, while also contributing to improved productivity and increased efficiency, especially in agricultur...