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Harmonizing the Economy with the Environment: Teaching Modules for a New Approach

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By Mohish Agrawal There is increasing demand for an economics curriculum that accounts for the importance of environmental issues such as climate change, biodiversity loss and natural resource degradation. Not only does the environment provide the natural capital essential as inputs to production, it also provides essential services, such as assimilation of waste and provision […]

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

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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 […]

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Harmonizing the Economy with the Environment: Teaching Modules for a New Approach

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