Category: Articles & Reports

New article published in Feminist Economics, “Female Headship and Women’s Work in Nepal”

Studies on feminization of poverty have tended to homogenize female-headed households. This article presents a mixed methods approach disaggregating the experiences of female-headed households in the post-conflict period in Nepal. One of four households in Nepal is estimated to be female-headed, either as a result of conflict-related male deaths (de jure, or widow heads) or […]

The Public Economy: Understanding the Government As a Producer

In this paper, ECI researcher June Sekera calls for a new public economics that returns to lost roots, while breaking new ground by taking into account the biophysical imperatives of production. The model offered here takes a systems perspective, recognizes a public economy with distinctive purpose and drivers, and focuses on government as a producer. […]