Economic Policy & Gender: Safety Nets and Transfers

Safey Nets

Gender and the Impact of Credit and Transfers (PDF 59 KB)
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Ignoring gender in the planning and evaluation of credit and transfer programs can lead to erroneous conclusions about who benefits from these programs.

Access to safety nets, credit and transfers helps vulnerable households to cope with poverty and other risks. However, men and women often do not have the same access to these resources and, when they do, the effect of putting resources in the hands of women is different than the effect of putting resources in the hands of men. This site includes background studies and summaries of key findings that demonstrate the importance of considering gender in the planning and evaluation of safety nets and transfer programs.

Analytical Work and Operational Experience

Use of the Formal and Informal Financial Sectors: Does Gender Matter? Empirical Evidence from Rural Bangladesh
Signe-Mary McKernan, Mark P. Pitt, and David Moskowitz How Fair is Workfare?

Gender, Public Works and Employment in Rural Ethiopia
Agnes R. Quisumbing and Yisehac YohannesGender and Risk in the Design of

Social Protection Interventions (PDF 180 KB)
Nazmul Chaudhury, Kene Ezemenari, and Janet Owens The Effects of Legislative

Change on Female Labor Supply: Marriage and Divorce, Child and Spousal Support, Property Division and Pension Splitting (PDF 79 KB)
Antony Dnes

A Bundle of Joy or an Expensive Luxury: A Comparative Analysis of the Economic Environment for Family Formation in Western Europe (PDF 198 KB)
Pierella Paci

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