Article highlights briefly convey key findings, main points, and policy implications.
Recent articles:
Dispossession after War: A Feminist Political Economy Perspective – Jayanthi Thiyaga Lingham
- A feminist approach to dispossession reveals its less visible and its gendered dimensions.
- Conflict-related dispossession consists of more than mass land expulsion during war.
- In post-war, dispossession connects to both state and capitalist logics of accumulation.
- Dispossession can have different modes: it is an embodied process, occurs through social reproduction, and can happen covertly.
- A feminist re-conceptualization contributes to analyses of violence against women in war and post-war.
Women’s Bargaining Power and Children’s Nutritional Status: Evidence from Indonesia – Romi Bhakti Hartarto, Claudia Aravena & Arnab Bhattacharjee
- In Indonesia, higher women’s bargaining power enhances child nutritional long-term outcomes.
- Child nutrition improves when women make decisions jointly with other family members.
- Boys appear to be the main beneficiaries of mothers’ higher bargaining power.
- Policies to increase women’s agency need to consider family support and social norms.
Women’s Participation in the Arab Spring Protests and the Prevalence of Domestic Violence: Evidence From Egypt – Tomer Stern & Bilge Erten
- In Mexico, one of the impacts of earthquakes is on crimes against women.
- Following earthquakes, sexual abuse increased by 11 percent and rape by 12 percent.
- Gangs play an important role in the escalation of sexual abuse.