Examining gender inequalities in land rights indicators in Asia

Caitlin Kieran, Kathryn Sproule, Cheryl Doss (), Agnes Quisumbing and Sung Mi Kim

No 1429, IFPRI discussion papers from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Abstract: This paper reviews the available data on men’s and women’s land rights, identifies what can and cannot be measured by these data, and uses these measures to assess the gaps in the land rights of women and men. Building on the conceptual framework developed in 2014 by Doss et al., we utilize nationally representative individual- and plot-level data from Bangladesh, Tajikistan, Vietnam, and Timor-Leste to calculate five indicators: incidence of ownership by sex; distribution of ownership by sex; and distribution of plots, mean plot size, and distribution of land area, all by sex of owner. The results show large gender gaps in landownership across countries. However, critical data gaps cloud our understanding of land rights and why women fare better or worse in certain countries. In particular, the limited information on joint and individual ownership indicates that this is an important area for future data collection and analysis.

Keywords: gender; land ownership; assets; property rights; women; Timor-Leste; Bangladesh; Vietnam; Tajikistan; Southern Asia; Central Asia; Asia; South-eastern Asia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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