Gender Lens Investing Mapping In The Global South

Author : Reshan Perera
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798630821416

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Gender Lens Investing Mapping in The Global South by Reshan Perera Pdf

Women today are an unparalleled power in the worldwide economy as effective business people, corporate officials, and family providers. However, gender-based discrimination, the nonappearance of lawful rights of women and the determined wage gap obstinately remain. This oddity makes an extraordinary and underexplored open door for financial specialists. Gender lens investment is the act of contributing for budgetary return while additionally considering the advantages to women. The term was authored around 2009 and turned into an undeniably famous practice in the mid-2010s. Like different types of impact investing, it very well may test discover expansive open doors for a direct interest in sexual orientation focal point contributing. Portfolios along these lines regularly comprise of numerous little arrangements, which can be obstinate or tedious to gather. Experts of the training likewise contend that it solicits speculators to surrender some from the profits they could anticipate from a sexually impartial venture strategy. Supporters of gender lens investment contributing contend that organizations with a higher-than-normal extent of women in official jobs will, in general, perform well, perhaps due to an expanded assorted variety of perspectives or on the grounds that not oppressing women enables organizations to enlist the best accessible talent. Business Insider composed of Gender lens investment focal point putting resources into 2015 that 'It is a demonstrated hypothesis as the majority of the ladies centered assets and venture procedures - a small cut of the $6.6 trillion-socially mindful contributing world - have been champion entertainers over the years.' According to The Guardian, ladies in microcredit programs likewise will, in general, have higher reimbursement rates than men.Joann Weiner of the Washington Post composed all the more warily of the methodology's capacity to convey better than expected returns: "Like all the rest, the ' gender lens investment procedure will have its great occasions, and it will have its harsh occasions... pursue a 'gender lens investment' venture system in the event that it will benefit the society at large while simply not relying on raking in huge profits in the market on the off chance to execute. The study was undertaken by conducting 20 Interviews over the island to understand about on the three key components of Projects and Activities; Ideas and Perspectives; and People and Organization in the Field of GLI in Sri Lanka.To feature the basic target, interviews have been directed with Key partners, people and foundations that bargains with gender and financing needs in the nation.People and organizations actively operating towards the scope of GLI were discussed in the study as Women's Fund Asia, Lanka Angel Network, Blue Ocean Ventures and Lanka Impact Investment Network while the research highlights the major lending institutions and their respective loan schemes as Economy Next, Women Entrepreneurship Finance Initiative Grant Programme, 'Liya Isuru', Uththamavi Loan Financial Solutions For Women Entrepreneurs, Kantha Ran Diriya, Self-Employment Promotion Initiative Phase Ii- Loan Scheme (Sep I - II), Kantha Ran Ginum, Diriya Sthree, Vardhana Sahanaya, Swashakthi Loan Scheme And 'Enterprise Sri Lanka Credit Scheme'.The study emphasizes on the recommendations to enhance the diversity of actors and collaborations across the field while analyzing in depth as to how gender equity in the workplace is practiced, how investments in products and services for women, especially when and where women are an underserved market, how Investments are done to address the systematic exclusion or exploitation of women, how the Share Market Investments vary based on GLI and policies adopted in Investing in Projects/ Establishments that would uplift Women's quality of Life.

Author : Joseph Quinlan,Jackie VanderBrug
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781119182900

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Gender Lens Investing by Joseph Quinlan,Jackie VanderBrug Pdf

Delve into gender lens investing and the reality of the female economy Women today are an unparalleled force in the global economy—as successful entrepreneurs, corporate executives and family breadwinners. Yet gender-based violence, the absence of women's legal rights and the persistent wage gap stubbornly remain. This paradox creates an unprecedented and underexplored opportunity for investors. Gender Lens Investing, co-authored by Jackie VanderBrug, Managing Director and Joseph Quinlan, Managing Director and Chief Market Strategist, of U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management, is the first book of its kind to examine, in-depth the advantages of integrating gender into investment analysis. While other books speak to growing numbers and influence of women, Gender Lens Investing moves from economic trends to financial strategy. Learn why gender is material to economic prosperity and investment performance Explore ways to use a gender lens to assess products, companies and sectors. Delve into the forces of positive social change supported by a gender perspective on investment choices Examine profitable and gratifying gender lens investment strategies Women are one of the world's greatest underutilized assets, and applying a gender lens allows you to identify companies that recognize this, or uncover the risks of companies that neglect it. A gender lens adds value across the investment community, but the impact reaches far beyond the bounds of portfolios to the economy and society as a whole. Gender Lens Investing provides expert perspective and real-world practical insight for investors looking to drive returns and impact.

Author : Elsa De Morais Sarmento,R. Paul Herman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 1331 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781119690641

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Global Handbook of Impact Investing by Elsa De Morais Sarmento,R. Paul Herman Pdf

Discover how to invest your capital to achieve a powerful, lasting impact on the world. The Global Handbook of Impact Investing: Solving Global Problems Via Smarter Capital Markets Towards A More Sustainable Society is an insightful guide to the growing world-wide movement of Impact Investing. Impact investors seek to realize lasting, beneficial improvements in society by allocating capital to sources of impactful and sustainable profit. This Handbook is a how-to guide for institutional investors, including family offices, foundations, endowments, governments, and international organizations, as well as academics, students, and everyday investors globally. The Handbook´s wide-ranging contributions from around the world make a powerful case for positive impact and profit to fund substantive, lasting solutions that solve critical problems across the world. Edited by two experienced and distinguished professionals in the sustainable investing arena and authored by two dozen renowned experts from finance, academia, and multilateral organizations from around the world, the Global Handbook of Impact Investing educates, inspires, and spurs action towards more responsible investing across all asset classes, resulting in smarter capital markets, including how to: · Realize positive impact and profit · Integrate impact into investment decision-making and portfolio · Allocate impactful investments across all asset classes · Apply unique Impact Investing frameworks · Measure, evaluate and report on impact · Learn from case examples around the globe · Pursue Best Practices in Impact Investing and impact reporting While other resources may take a local or limited approach to the subject, this Handbook gathers global knowledge and results from public and private institutions spanning five continents. The authors also make a powerful case for the ability of Impact Investing to lead to substantive and lasting change that addresses critical problems across the world.

Author : Reshan Perera
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1797773755

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Gender Lens Investments and Perspectives by Reshan Perera Pdf

Gender Lens Investment had been a new topic to South Asia and is growing together with the popularity of the Impact Investment concept in the Asian Region. However, still the awareness among the investors and entrepreneurs with regard to gender lens investing could be considered basic. Hence, a secondary analysis has been performed in this study so as to identify the applicability of the GLI Concept across South Asia.

Author : Augusto Lopez-Claros,Bahiyyih Nakhjavani
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781466852044

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Equality for Women = Prosperity for All by Augusto Lopez-Claros,Bahiyyih Nakhjavani Pdf

A groundbreaking book about the direct relationship between a woman's rights and freedoms and the economic prosperity of her country. "The authors speak to hearts as well as minds." —Maud de Boer Buquicchio, UN Special Rapporteur “Not only timely but profoundly important—a must-read." Jackie Jones, Professor of Feminist Legal studies Gender discrimination is often seen from a human rights perspective; it is a violation of women’s basic human rights, as embedded in the Universal Declaration, the UN Charter and other such founding documents. Moreover, there is overwhelming evidence that restrictions and various forms of discrimination against women are also bad economics. They undermine the talent pool available to the private sector, they distort power relationships within the family and lead to inefficiencies in the use of resources. They contribute to create an environment in which women, de facto, are second class citizens, with fewer options than men, lower quality jobs, lower pay, often the victims of various forms of violence, literally from the cradle to the grave. They are also not fully politically empowered and have scant presence in the corridors of power, whether as finance ministers, central bank governors, prime ministers or on the boards of leading corporations. Why is gender inequality so pervasive? Where does it come from? Does it have cultural and religious roots? And what are the sorts of policies and values that will deliver a world in which being born a boy or a girl is no longer a measure of the likelihood of developing one’s human potential?

Author : Fernanda Peñaloza,Sarah Walsh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319785776

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Mapping South-South Connections by Fernanda Peñaloza,Sarah Walsh Pdf

This book explores contemporary cultural, historical and geopolitical connections between Latin America and Australia from an interdisciplinary perspective. It seeks to capitalise on scholarly developments and further unsettle the multiple divides created by the North-South axis by focusing on processes of translocal connectivities that link Australia with Latin America. The authors conceptualise the South-South not as a defined geographic space with clear boundaries, but rather as a mobile terrain with multiple, evolving and overlapping translocal processes.

Author : Kate Grantham,Gillian Dowie,Arjan de Haan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000340341

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Women's Economic Empowerment by Kate Grantham,Gillian Dowie,Arjan de Haan Pdf

This book investigates the barriers to women’s economic empowerment in the Global South. Drawing on evidence from a wide range of countries, the book outlines important lessons and practical solutions for promoting gender equality. Despite global progress in closing gender gaps in education and health, women’s economic empowerment has lagged behind, with little evidence that economic growth promotes gender equality. International Development Research Centre’s (IDRC) Growth and Economic Opportunities for Women (GrOW) programme was set up to provide policy lessons, insights, and concrete solutions that could lead to advances in gender equality, particularly on the role of institutions and macroeconomic growth, barriers to labour market access for women, and the impact of women’s care responsibilities. This book showcases rigorous and multi-disciplinary research emerging from this ground-breaking programme, covering topics such as the school-to-work transition, child marriage, unpaid domestic work and childcare, labour market segregation, and the power of social and cultural norms that prevent women from fully participating in better paid sectors of the economy. With a range of rich case studies from Burkina Faso, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Kenya, Nepal, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, and Uganda, this book is perfect for students, researchers, practitioners, and policymakers working on women’s economic empowerment and gender equality in the Global South.

Author : Sylvia H. Chant
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 733 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781849805162

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The International Handbook of Gender and Poverty by Sylvia H. Chant Pdf

. . . possibly the most comprehensive contribution to a detailed and thorough analysis of gendered dimensions of international poverty contexts, causes, and consequences ever brought together into one volume. Gender and Development I recommend this book to be a staple of reference libraries. British Politics and Policy With international attention focused on halving poverty by 2015, the appearance of The International Handbook of Gender and Poverty is both timely and essential. Sylvia Chant is to be congratulated for producing a state-of-the-art compendium of everything you need to know about the often hidden, gendered, dimensions of poverty. Edited and written by leading scholars and policy advisers, the Handbook comprehensively covers the key themes that are vital to understanding poverty as a gendered process, combining policy lessons with theoretical insight. Richly illustrated with examples from across the world, this book will not only be welcomed by all those dedicated to the study of poverty, but, by casting new light on its causes, will also help to develop appropriate measures to tackle it. Professor Maxine Molyneux, Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London, UK While each of the articles in this impressive collection makes an original contribution to the conceptual, empirical and policy analysis of gender and poverty, together they provide a comprehensive overview of the field and an essential resource for all sections of the development community. Professor Sylvia Chant is to be congratulated for bringing together some of the leading thinkers in the field from across the world. This is not only an unprecedented feat of international co-operation but feminist collaboration at its best. Professor Naila Kabeer, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK These diverse, thoughtful essays go far beyond a mere summary of international scholarship. They outline a fascinating and provocative agenda for future policy-relevant research. This book will help redefine and revitalise the field of gender and development. Professor Nancy Folbre, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA In the interests of contextualising (and nuancing) the multiple interrelations between gender and poverty, Sylvia Chant has gathered writings on diverse aspects of the subject from a range of disciplinary and professional perspectives, achieving extensive thematic as well as geographical coverage. This benchmark volume presents women s and men s experiences of gendered poverty with respect to a vast spectrum of intersecting issues including local to global economic transformations, family, age, race , migration, assets, paid and unpaid work, health, sexuality, human rights, and conflict and violence. The Handbook also provides up-to-the-minute reflections on how to theorise, measure and represent the connections between gender and poverty, and to contemplate how gendered poverty is affected and potentially redressed by policy and grassroots interventions. An unprecedented and ambitious blend of conceptual, methodological, empirical and practical offerings from a host of established as well as upcoming scholars and professionals from across the globe lends the volume a distinctive and critical edge. Notwithstanding the broad scope of The International Handbook of Gender and Poverty, one theme in common to most of its 100-plus chapters is the need to en-gender analysis and initiatives to combat poverty and inequality at local, national and international levels. As such, the volume will inspire its readers not only to reflect deeply on poverty and gender injustice, but also to consider what to do about it. This book will be essential reading for all with academic, professional or personal interests in gender, poverty, inequality, development, and social, political and economic change in the contemporary world.

Author : Austen Parrish,Cedric Ryngaert
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781800885592

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Research Handbook on Extraterritoriality in International Law by Austen Parrish,Cedric Ryngaert Pdf

By engaging with the ongoing discussion surrounding the scope of cross-border regulation, this expansive Research Handbook provides the reader with key insights into the concept of extraterritoriality. It offers an incisive overview and analysis of one of the most critical components of global governance.

Author : Tinuade Adekunbi Ojo
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031533372

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Women and Finance in Africa by Tinuade Adekunbi Ojo Pdf

Author : Jemimah Njuki,John R. Parkins,Amy Kaler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317190011

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Transforming Gender and Food Security in the Global South by Jemimah Njuki,John R. Parkins,Amy Kaler Pdf

Drawing on studies from Africa, Asia and South America, this book provides empirical evidence and conceptual explorations of the gendered dimensions of food security. It investigates how food security and gender inequity are conceptualized within interventions, assesses the impacts and outcomes of gender-responsive programs on food security and gender equity and addresses diverse approaches to gender research and practice that range from descriptive and analytical to strategic and transformative. The chapters draw on diverse theoretical perspectives, including transformative learning, feminist theory, deliberative democracy and technology adoption. As a result, they add important conceptual and empirical material to a growing literature on the challenges of gender equity in agricultural production. A unique feature of this book is the integration of both analytic and transformative approaches to understanding gender and food security. The analytic material shows how food security interventions enable women and men to meet the long-term nutritional needs of their households, and to enhance their economic position. The transformative chapters also document efforts to build durable and equitable relationships between men and women, addressing underlying social, cultural and economic causes of gender inequality. Taken together, these combined approaches enable women and men to reflect on gendered divisions of labor and resources related to food, and to reshape these divisions in ways which benefit families and communities. Co-published with the International Development Research Centre.

Author : Ricardo Wilson-Grau
Publisher : IAP
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781641133944

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Outcome Harvesting by Ricardo Wilson-Grau Pdf

Are you a grant maker, manager or evaluator who must assess your work to improve as well as be accountable for the use of resources and results? Does the project, program or organization you fund, manage or evaluate contend with substantial uncertainty about what to do and what will be the results? Do you thus experience constant change and unexpected and unforeseeable actors and factors in your intervention? Do you need to know what you are achieving and how in real time? And therefore, do you seek an alternative to conventional monitoring and evaluation of social change results? If yes, then you are the audience for this book. Beginning in 2002, working closely with co-evaluators and commissioners of evaluations, the author developed Outcome Harvesting to enable evaluators, grant makers, and managers to identify, formulate, verify, and make sense of changes that interventions have influenced in a broad range of cutting–edge innovation and development projects and programs around the world. Over these years, he led Outcome Harvesting evaluative exercises involving almost 500 non-governmental organizations, networks, government agencies, funding agencies, community-based organizations, research institutes and university programs. In over fifty evaluations, with forty co-evaluators he has harvested thousands of outcomes on six continents. Outcome Harvesting has proven useful in evaluations of a great diversity of initiatives: human rights advocacy, political, economic and environmental advocacy, arts and culture, health systems, information and communication technology, conflict and peace, water and sanitation, taxonomy for development, violence against women, rural development, organic agriculture, participatory democracy, waste management, public sector reform, good governance, eLearning, social accountability, and business competition, amongst others. In this book, the author explains the steps of Outcome Harvesting and how to customize them according to the nine underlying principles. He shares his experience and gives practical advice on how to work with Outcome Harvesting and remain true to its essential features.

Author : Kararach, George,Besada, Hany
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781447328575

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Development in Africa by Kararach, George,Besada, Hany Pdf

Since 2000, countries across Africa have maintained over a decade of unprecedented economic expansion in a phenomena known as ‘Africa rising’. However, despite pockets of strong economic growth, Africa still faces major development challenges. In this important book the contributors argue that Africa as a continent must work on securing social and political stability and build effective economic governance to ensure the development of a society that is socially, economically and politically inclusive. Looking beyond the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) the contributors highlight what they consider to be the 12 major public policy conversations of the continent post-2015, from the legacy of African leadership, to the ‘youth bulge’ (and resulting unemployment) and climate change. The volume presents policy makers, academics and students with a chance to take a fresh look at urgent emerging challenges in post-MDG African development.

Author : Jane L. Parpart,Patricia Connelly,Eudine Barriteau
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Feminism
ISBN : 9780889369108

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Theoretical Perspectives on Gender and Development by Jane L. Parpart,Patricia Connelly,Eudine Barriteau Pdf

Theoretical Perspectives on Gender and Development demytsifies the theory of gender and development and shows how it plays an important role in everyday life. It explores the evolution of gender and development theory, introduces competing theoretical frameworks, and examines new and emerging debates. The focus is on the implications of theory for policy and practice, and the need to theorize gender and development to create a more egalitarian society. This book is intended for classroom and workshop use in the fields ofdevelopment studies, development theory, gender and development, and women's studies. Its clear and straightforward prose will be appreciated by undergraduate and seasoned professional, alike. Classroom exercises, study questions, activities, and case studies are included. It is designed for use in both formal and nonformal educational settings.

Author : National Intelligence Council
Publisher : Cosimo Reports
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1646794974

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Global Trends 2040 by National Intelligence Council Pdf

"The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic marks the most significant, singular global disruption since World War II, with health, economic, political, and security implications that will ripple for years to come." -Global Trends 2040 (2021) Global Trends 2040-A More Contested World (2021), released by the US National Intelligence Council, is the latest report in its series of reports starting in 1997 about megatrends and the world's future. This report, strongly influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, paints a bleak picture of the future and describes a contested, fragmented and turbulent world. It specifically discusses the four main trends that will shape tomorrow's world: - Demographics-by 2040, 1.4 billion people will be added mostly in Africa and South Asia. - Economics-increased government debt and concentrated economic power will escalate problems for the poor and middleclass. - Climate-a hotter world will increase water, food, and health insecurity. - Technology-the emergence of new technologies could both solve and cause problems for human life. Students of trends, policymakers, entrepreneurs, academics, journalists and anyone eager for a glimpse into the next decades, will find this report, with colored graphs, essential reading.