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dc.coverage.spatialUSAes_ES
dc.creatorDeere, Carmen Diana-
dc.creatorAlvarado, Gina-
dc.creatorOduro, Abena D.-
dc.creatorBoakye-Yiadom, Louis-
dc.date2015-
dc.date.accessioned2025-09-04T17:22:39Z-
dc.date.available2025-09-04T17:22:39Z-
dc.identifier.citationDeere, 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.es_ES
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10469/24302-
dc.descriptionThis 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.es_ES
dc.description.sponsorshipUN Womenes_ES
dc.description.tableofcontentsÍNDICE | 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 137es_ES
dc.format144 páginases_ES
dc.languageenges_ES
dc.publisherNueva York : UN Womenes_ES
dc.relation.ispartofseriesDiscussion Paper;-
dc.rightsopenAccesses_ES
dc.rightsAtribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 Ecuador*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ec/*
dc.subjectGÉNEROes_ES
dc.subjectREMESASes_ES
dc.subjectACUMULACIÓN DE ACTIVOSes_ES
dc.subjectMIGRACIÓNes_ES
dc.subjectRELACIONES ECONÓMICASes_ES
dc.subjectRECESIÓN ECONÓMICAes_ES
dc.subjectMIGRACIÓN DE RETORNOes_ES
dc.subjectPOLÍTICA GUBERNAMENTALes_ES
dc.subjectIGUALDAD DE GÉNEROes_ES
dc.subjectECUADORes_ES
dc.subjectGHANAes_ES
dc.subjectAMÉRICA LATINAes_ES
dc.titleGender, remittances and asset accumulation in Ecuador and Ghanaes_ES
dc.typebookes_ES
dc.identifier.slughttps://biblio.flacsoandes.edu.ec/libros/141293-opaces_ES
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