Record Topic: Health
India’s Undernourished Children: A Call for Reform and Action
India’s Malnutrition Dilemma
Homestead Food Production: A Strategy to Combat Malnutrition and Poverty
Gender Policy Brief for Uganda’s Health Sector
Gender, IFIs and Food Insecurity Case Study: Kenya
Economic Security for Women Fights AIDS
Engaging Men and Boys: A Brief Summary of UNFPA Experience and Lessons Learned
Childbirth experiences of women with obstetric fistula in Tanzania and Uganda and their implications for fistual program development
Women’s Land Rights and Children’s Human Capital in Vietnam
Full citation: Menon, N., van der Meulen Rodgers, Y., and Nguyen, H. (2014). “Women’s Land Rights and Children’s Human Capital in Vietnam.” World Development, 54, 18-31. – Vietnam’s 1993 Land Law created a land market by granting households land-use rights which could be exchanged, leased, and mortgaged. Using a matched household sample from Vietnam’s 2004 and 2008 Household Living Standards Survey, this study analyzes whether land titling for women led to improvements in child health and education. Results from the land market indicate that female-only held land-use rights decreased the incidence of illness among children, increased their health insurance coverage, […]