... with policy recommendations. © 2021 by the Regents of the University of California 2021 smoking international trade development global health gender Tobacco consumption is the leading cause of preventable morbidity and mortality in the world ( Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...

...Soma Chaudhuri; Merry Morash This research explores how empowerment programs impact gender-based violence and the social structures that lead to such violence in the first place. Drawing from interviews with former participants in empowerment programs that focus on building community leaders...

...-employment as a tool for bolstering women's earnings. In this paper, we identify a novel intervention that boosts women's returns from self-employment and narrows the gender earnings gap in an informal, residential market. We argue that micro-spatial resources offer gender-specific advantages to female...

... engagements with the topics of global health and development, ranging from individual-level analyses to examinations of national trajectories and global governance, and dealing with topics ranging from the politics of sexuality and global AIDS policies to gender and fresh-food consumption. While highlighting...

... by forging collectivized ways of living and working, and that in this context technology is localized, collectivized, and felt. These findings suggest that examining process and implementation defies fixed narratives on the relationships between gender, entrepreneurship, technology, and development. © 2018...

...Phyllis L. Baker; Kevin T. Leicht Research and policy analysis on gender, development, and globalization have focused extensively on the changing roles and social status of women as one of the keys to reaching global development goals and improving social well-being. Yet at the same time...

... performing various forms of gendered and class-stratified labor. Our conception of microfinance draws attention to the industry's reliance on the devalued labor of women, and the influence of class and geographic divisions on the functioning of microfinancial chains at all levels. Our chain-oriented...

.... Please direct all requests for permission to photocopy or reproduce article content through the University of California Press's Reprints and Permissions web page, www.ucpress.edu/journals.php?p=reprints . 2016 Migration Economic Shock Cumulative Causation Migrant Social Capital Gender...

...Rae Lesser Blumberg This article explores whether a region's traditional type of agricultural production - “dry” (rain-fed) vs. “wet” (irrigated rice) - has long-term effects on women's equality and on development. It examines the three world regions with the widest range of gender stratification...