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Type:	Libro
Title:	Gender, remittances and asset accumulation in Ecuador and Ghana
Authors:	Deere, Carmen Diana Alvarado, Gina Oduro, Abena D. Boakye-Yiadom, Louis
Issue:	2015
Publisher:	Nueva York : UN Women
Citation:	Deere, Carmen Diana, Gina Alvarado, Abena D. Oduro y Louis Boakye-Yiadom. 2015. Gender, remittances and asset accumulation in Ecuador and Ghana. Nueva York: UN Women.
Keywords:	GÉNERO REMESAS ACUMULACIÓN DE ACTIVOS MIGRACIÓN RELACIONES ECONÓMICAS RECESIÓN ECONÓMICA MIGRACIÓN DE RETORNO POLÍTICA GUBERNAMENTAL IGUALDAD DE GÉNERO ECUADOR GHANA AMÉRICA LATINA
Format:	144 páginas
metadata.dc.description.sponsorship:	UN Women
metadata.dc.description.tableofcontents:	ÍNDICE | 1 INTRODUCTION 21 | 2 CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK: GENDER, ASSET ACCUMULATION AND MIGRATION 21 | 2.1 Asset accumulation and women’s economic autonomy and empowerment 21 | 2.2 The conditions for asset accumulation by migrant women 23 | 3 WHAT DO WE KNOW? REMITTERS, RECIPIENTS AND THE USE OF REMITTANCES 30 | 3.1 Migration and remittances in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa 30 | 3.2 Who are the remitters? 31 | 3.3 Who are the recipients? 36 | 3.4 The use of remittances 41 | 3.5 The role of remittances in business development 44 | 3.6 Summary 46 | 4 CONTEXT AND METHODS: ECUADOR AND GHANA 50 | 4.1 Migration and remittances in Ecuador 51 | 4.2 Migration and remittances in Ghana 53 | 4.3 The household asset surveys 56 | 4.4 Migrants with economic relations to their households of origin 57 | 5 CURRENT REMITTANCES AND THEIR USE IN ECUADOR 66 | 5.1 The global financial crisis and the reduction in remittances 66 | 5.2 Who remits to whom and decides on their use 70 | 5.3 The uses of current remittances 78 | 5.4 Remittances in kind 86 | 5.5 Summary 88 | 6 THE ACQUISITION OF ASSETS WITH REMITTANCES IN ECUADOR AND GHANA 92 | 6.1 The incidence of remittances in the acquisition of assets 92 | 6.2 The incidence of remittance use by location and gender of the migrant 96 | 6.3 The ownership of assets purchased with remittances 101 | 6.4 Summary 107 | 7 RETURN INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION AND STATE POLICY 110 | 7.1 Planning for the return home 110 | 7.2 Return migration to Ecuador 112 | 7.3 Return migration policies 115 | 8 CONCLUSIONS AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS 120 | 8.1 Main findings 120 | 8.2 Methodological contributions and limitations 122 | 8.3 Policy implications and recommendations 123 | References 128 | Endnotes 137
metadata.dc.coverage.spatial:	USA
Series/Report no.:	Discussion Paper;
Description:	This paper explores whether women—as migrants or recipients of remittances—are able to accumulate physical and financial assets on par with men and, if not, the gendered constraints to this process. This question is important since ownership of assets is associated with women’s relative economic autonomy. Asset ownership strengthens a woman’s fall-back position—those resources that she commands should a marriage break-up (be it through separation, divorce or death of a spouse) that allow her to survive on her own. A woman who owns a dwelling, for example, is in a much stronger position to decide whether to leave an abusive relationship than one who does not have a secure place to live or from which to carry out income-generating activities. Women who own major assets may have greater choice in deciding whether to marry at all or whom to marry. The stronger a woman’s fall-back position, the greater her household bargaining power and thus her ability to negotiate outcomes that reflect her preferences and aspirations. Hence, it is posited that women’s ownership of assets increases their agency, a critically important component of the process of empowerment of women and of achieving gender equality.
Rights:	openAccess Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 Ecuador
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10469/24302
Appears in Collections:	Colección General

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