Well-implemented and functioning land administration systems are able to improve the wellbeing of rural households support achievement UN Sustainable Development Goals. As cadastral data an essential part a modern system for documenting securing boundaries parcels, Ethiopia recently embarked on one largest surveying programs registration in Africa. Cadastral provided by office woreda were analy...

This paper uses computable general equilibrium model-based simulations to assess the gender dimensions of impact COVID-19 on economic outcomes, that is, labor force participation, employment, wages, and earnings. It leverages 2020 High-Frequency Phone Survey in Chad female-headed households, which comprise 23 percent country’s households. The findings show pandemic will have a disproportionatel...

Individual and household based aggregate measures of joblessness offer conflicting signals about labour market performance. This paper shows that while individual based measures of joblessness have remained fairly stable over the last 10 years or so and have fallen after highs in the early 1980s, household measures of joblessness have risen. Joblessness among the working age population has beco...

Since 1980, over 2 million people have died as an immediate result of natural and man-made disasters and by 1992, the refugee population registered nearly 16 million people. This article reviews the human impact of disasters as a composite of two elements: the catastrophic event itself and the vulnerability of people. It also examines the specific case of women and children in the current world...

BACKGROUND There has been ample discussion on the levels and trends of infant mortality in India over time, but what remains less explored are, the differentials in infant mortality according to household headship. This paper examined the differences in the determinants of infant mortality between male-headed households (MHH) and female-headed households (FHH). METHODS The study used Cox prop...

In the HIV and AIDS sphere, children remain on the margins with respect to advocacy, prevention, treatment and care. Moreover, concern is generally limited to specific categories of children, most especially children living with HIV, orphaned children and child-headed households. Excluded from view are the very large numbers of children affected by generalized HIV/AIDS epidemics, now in advance...