Female labor outcomes and large-scale agricultural land investments: Macro-micro evidencefrom Tanzania

Osabuohien, Evans; Efobi, Uchenna; Herrmann, Raoul; Gitau, Ciliaka

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2019.01.005

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“…Some of the articulated activities are small farming corporations, petty trading and domestic chores that are not associated with any financial rewards. This perspective of gender exclusion in the continent is consistent with less contemporary literature on the involvement of women in formal economic activities (Ellis, Blackden, Cutura, MacCulloch & Seebens, 2007;FAO, 2011;Tandon & Wegerif, 2013;Asongu, Efobi, Tanankem & Osabuohien, 2019;Osabuohien, Efobi, Herrmann & Gitau, 2019). Furthermore, according to the World Bank and International Labour Organisation (ILO), the low welfare experience of developing countries is partly due to gender exclusion which dampens the negative responsiveness of poverty to economic growth (World Bank, 2015;ILO, 2013).…”

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Inequality and the Economic Participation of Women in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Empirical Investigation

Asongu

Odhiambo

2019

SSRN Journal

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This study investigates the effect of inequality on female employment in 42 countries in sub-Saharan Africa for the period 2004-2014. Three inequality indicators are used, namely, the: Gini coefficient, Atkinson index and Palma ratio. Two indicators of gender inclusion are also employed, namely: female employment and female unemployment rates. The empirical analysis is based on the Generalised Method of Moments (GMM).The following main findings are established. First, inequality increases female unemployment in regressions based on the Palma ratio. Second, from the robustness checks, inequality reduces female employment within the frameworks of the Gini coefficient and Palma ratio.

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Inequality and the Economic Participation of Women in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Empirical Investigation

Asongu

Odhiambo

2019

SSRN Journal

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“…In relation to the factors that motivate women to engage in non‐farm entrepreneurial activities, Osabuohien et al . () identified that in Tanzania, the displacement of household lands as a result of the presence of large‐scale agricultural land investments is a significant determinant of female labour outcomes. Rijkers and Costa () consider a host of issues including the opportunity cost of working relative to earnings in productive employment, and preferences over different types of employment as dictated by cultural and religious beliefs as a determinant of a woman's labour allocation.…”

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Female Access and Rights to Land, and Rural Non‐farm Entrepreneurship in Four African Countries

Efobi¹,

Beecroft²,

Atata³

2019

African Development Review

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This paper examines the relationship between female access to land, rights to such land, and engagement in non-farm entrepreneurship in rural Africa. We used data from the four countries (Ethiopia, Nigeria, Tanzania and Malawi) that were featured in the Living Standards Measurement Study-Integrated Surveys in Agriculture dataset for the period 2013-15. To estimate the relationship, we compute the marginal effect from the logistic regression, while controlling for other important covariates that explain non-farm activities at the individual/household level. We find that overall, women's access to land and rights to such land significantly explain their likelihood to engage in non-farm enterprises. However, this relationship is not seen across the sampled countries. In Nigeria, for instance, we find that though the relationship is positive, it was not significant. While for Ethiopia, Tanzania and Malawi, we find a positive and significant relationship. We explain our result based on two important perspectives. The policy implications of our result are included in the paper.

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“…A considerable contribution to the development of the theory of risks was made by the famous economist or classics of the economic though: (Abdel-Basset et al, 2019;Das et al, 2019;Dirick et al, 2019;King et al, 2018;Novo-Corti et al, 2019;Santis, 2018;Souza et al, 2019). The problem of risks of the realization of large scale investment projects as a tool of the infrastructural development of territories (such as, for instance, La Manche tunnel, Øresund Bridge between Denmark and Sweden, Vasco da Gama bridge in Portugal and others) was thoroughly studied in the works of the scientists: (Achten et al, 2019;Bayrak, 2018;Bogoviz & Sergi, 2018;Brazill-Boast et al, 2018;Fragkos& Kouvaritakis, 2018;Genoud, 2018;Moreda, 2018;Morozova et al, 2018;Osabuohien et al, 2019;Popkova, 2019); Sergi et al, 2019;Zheng et al, 2019). The problems of risks identification, practical aspects of their realization in historic and current territorial megaprojects and methodological aspects of the assessment and leveling of the risks at different stages of the life cycle of a large scale investment project were studied in the works of the scientists: (Bi & Cai, 2019); Bo et al, 2019;Clark, 2019;Díaz et al, 2019;D'Orazio & Popoyan, 2019;Huang, 2019;Huber & Huber, 2019;Wan et al, 2019;Zhang & Chen, 2019).…”

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The Influence of Universal and Specific Risks on Quality Management During Implementation of Large-Scale Russian Investment Projects in the Conditions of Uncertainty

Mitrofanova¹

2019

IJQR

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The aim of the article is to display the identification features of current territorial megaprojects as a relevant tool of the state strategic management and to reveal a number of specific risks, accompanying quality management in the processes of the development and the realization of large investment projects. As a rule a megaproject is connected with a long term prospect that intensifies its probabilistic character and provokes one or another risk: macroeconomic, political, geographical, engineering, technical, financial, commercial, organizational and legal, tariff, taxation one and others. Special attention is paid by the authors of the article to such types of the risks as a risk of competence and a corruption risk. Using the example of current Russian megaprojects such as, for instance, "Ural Industrial-Ural Polar", construction of the Olympic objects in the city of Sochi, it was shown that these risks became the reason for the rebranding of the megaproject or they lead to a considerable increase of the fact costs in comparison with the planned ones. The authors are convinced that the display of possible corruption risks at the pre project stage, taking into account of reputation risks and the elimination of risks of low competence are an important task implying the reduction of the uncertainty of the final effect from the realization of the territorial integrated megaproject.

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Female labor outcomes and large-scale agricultural land investments: Macro-micro evidencefrom Tanzania

Cited by 81 publications

References 23 publications

Inequality and the Economic Participation of Women in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Empirical Investigation

Inequality and the Economic Participation of Women in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Empirical Investigation

Female Access and Rights to Land, and Rural Non‐farm Entrepreneurship in Four African Countries

The Influence of Universal and Specific Risks on Quality Management During Implementation of Large-Scale Russian Investment Projects in the Conditions of Uncertainty

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