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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"women-headed households"”.
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An Economy of (Dis)Affections: Women-Headed Households, Cash Transfers and Matrilineal Relations in Kenya South Coast
Title of Thesis: An Economy of (Dis)Affections: Women-Headed Households, Cash Transfers and Matrilineal Relations in Kenya South Coast Summary This thesis explores how woman household heads in Msambweni of Kenya South Coast maintain matrilineal relations in the face of socio-economic constraints …
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The impact of the informal economy on the social and economic development of women headed households in Chegutu Urban district in Zimbabwe
… a source of income and form of livelihood. Women tend to be overrepresented in the informal economy and among them is a sub-group of women who head households. Women headed households are among the poorest people in the world. The aim of this study was to determine and explore how the …
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Women's empowerment in informal settlements of the Peruvian Amazon frontier: A case study of 9 de Octubre, Pucallpa-Peru
Women's organizations in informal settlements located in peri-urban areas of Peruvian Amazon cities have been carrying out programs for solving nutrition, food, health, and income generation problems in their communities. This is a way of women's local action of self-help and self-reliance to …
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Recuperando la Tierra: Understanding the Legacies of Social Movements through the Entanglement of Home and Urban Housing Landscapes in Costa Rica
… the political enfranchisement and empowerment of women and women-headed households; and (3) providing local level infrastructure for addressing and preventing intrafamilial violence through health cooperatives. Through a pro-poor housing subsidy, the bono de vivienda, preferentially given to …
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Heterogeneity and Female-Headed Households in Sri Lanka: Vulnerability and Resilience in a Transitional Development Society
Since the 1970s, female-headed households (FHHs) in developing countries have often been used in development literature as a proxy for poverty and vulnerability. In reality the profile of women-headed households is diverse; they include, at the least, rich and poor women, aged widows as well as …