Lucia Hanmer
Biographic Data
| ID | 4140925 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lucia Hanmer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lucia |
| FAMILY NAME | Hanmer |
| SIGNATURE | HANMER L |
| AFFILIATIONS | World Bank Group |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 84 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Increasing Gender Equality in Fragile, Conflict, and Violence Settings
Fragility, conflict, and violence (FCV) significantly impact women and girls, exacerbating gender-based violence and limiting access to rights and services due to weakened institutions. Positive changes can emerge from crises, providing opportunities to reshape social norms and empower women. Achieving gender equality in these settings requires tailored approaches that consider local dynamics and involve influential non-state actors. The World Ba…
The Risk That Travels with You: Links Between Forced Displacement, Conflict and Intimate Partner Violence in Colombia and Liberia
Displacement and conflict substantially heighten the risk of gender-based violence including intimate partner violence (IPV), experienced by women and girls. This study aims to examine the links between conflict, forced displacement and IPV using nationally representative survey data measuring IPV combined with data on conflict-related violence from two different conflict-affected settings: Colombia and Liberia. We find that forced displacement i…
The Impact of Protracted Displacement on Syrian Refugees in Jordan: The Evolution of Household Composition and Poverty Rates
This paper examines the influence of \n gender inequality on poverty among Syrian refugees in Jordan \n between 2013 and 2018. Two waves of Home-Visit surveys, \n collected by the United Nations High Commissioner for \n Refugees, are analyzed to track the evolution of poverty \n among Syrian refugees in Jordan. To compare changes in \n poverty between female- and male-headed households, the \n paper uses relative comparisons of deciles in the \n …
The effect of armed conflict on intimate partner violence: Evidence from the Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is the most common form of violence against women in both conflict and non-conflict settings but in conflict settings it often receives less attention than other forms of gender-based violence (GBV), such as conflict-related sexual violence. To examine whether increased rates of IPV are linked to conflict we use data from Domestic Violence module of the Nigerian Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS) collected in 200…
Barriers to the Inclusion of Women and Marginalized Groups in Nigeria’s ID System
An estimated one billion people around the world do not have an officially recognized means of identification (ID). The majority live in low-income countries (LICs), particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. This study contributes to an overarching goal of building global knowledge about increasing women’s and marginalized groups’ access to and use of IDs to promote development. There is little systematic evidence about the causes of gender ga…
How does poverty differ among refugees? Taking a gender lens to the data on Syrian refugees in Jordan
Many reports document the hardships experienced by refugees, highlighting that women and children are a highly vulnerable group. However, empirical analysis of how gender inequality impacts poverty among refugees is limited. We combine registration data for Syrian refugees in Jordan collected by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees with data from its Home Visit surveys to analyze income poverty rates among refugee households. We use …
Addressing the Needs of Women and Girls in Contexts of Forced Displacement
Conflict and Development - Conflict and Fragile States Gender - Gender and Poverty Gender - Gender and Social Development Social Development - Social Cohesion Social Development - Social Conflict and Violence Poverty Reduction - Migration and Development
How Does Poverty Differ Among Refugees? Taking a Gender Lens to the Data on Syrian Refugees in Jordan
Data collected for refugee registration and to target humanitarian assistance include information about household composition and demographics that can be used to identify gender-based vulnerabilities. This paper combines the microdata collected by United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to register refugees with data from its Home Visit surveys to analyze income poverty rates among refugees with a gender lens. It finds distinguishing betwe…
The Role of Identification in Ending Child Marriage
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable \n Development’s Goal for Gender Equality (SDG5 to: Achieve \n Gender Equality and Empower Women and Girls) sets a series \n of ambitious targets that will measure progress towards \n attaining this goal. One such target is to: ‘eliminate all \n harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage \n and female genital mutilation. In this paper we examine how \n efforts to achieve legal identity for all, inc…
Exploring Women's Agency and Empowerment in Developing Countries: Where do we stand
While central notions around agency are well established in academic literature, progress on the empirical front has faced major challenges around developing tractable measures and data availability. This has limited our understanding about patterns of agency and empowerment of women across countries. Measuring key dimensions of women's agency and empowerment is complex, but feasible and important. This paper systematically explores what can be l…
Child Marriage: A Critical Barrier to Girls’ Schooling and Gender Equality in Education
Education is not only a human right, but also a powerful tool for women’s empowerment and a strategic development investment. There is a clear multiplier effect to educating girls; women who are educated are healthier, participate more in the formal labor market, earn more income, have fewer children, and provide better healthcare and education to their children compared to women with little or no education. The benefits of education thus transmi…
Voice and Agency: Empowering Women and Girls for Shared Prosperity
The 2012 World Development Report recognized that expanding women's agency - their ability to make decisions and take advantage of opportunities is key to improving their lives as well as the world. This report represents a major advance in global knowledge on this critical front. The vast data and thousands of surveys distilled in this report cast important light on the nature of constraints women and girls continue to face globally. This report…
Infant and child mortality in developing countries: Analysing the data for Robust determinants
Is development best achieved by going for growth, or does specific attention need to be paid to directly improving human welfare? In contrast to the Human Development Reports of the UNDP, the World Bank has stressed the growth approach. Recent work has reinforced this position by arguing that health spending is extremely ineffective in reducing infant or child mortality, which is mainly explained by a country's income per capita. This article con…
Measuring Socio-Economic Gender Inequality: Toward an Alternative to the UNDP Gender-Related Development Index
This paper assesses the United Nations Development Program’s (UNDP) Gender-Related Development Index (GDI). Although the GDI has increased attention on gender equality in human development, it suffers from several limitations. A major problem is that it conflates relative gender equality with absolute levels of human development and thus gives no information on comparative gender inequality among countries. Using the same indicators as the GDI, t…
What do the World Bank's Poverty Assessments teach us about Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa
As part of the World Bank's poverty reduction strategy, Poverty Assessments have been carried out for a number of countries which analyse who the poor are, the causes of poverty and poverty reduction policies. This article reviews what can be learnt from the twenty-five Assessments prepared for countries in sub-Saharan Africa up to 1996. Whilst other factors are acknowledged in identifying the poor, the Assessments over-emphasize income-poverty d…
Exploring Women's Agency and Empowerment in Developing Countries: Where do we stand
While central notions around agency are well established in academic literature, progress on the empirical front has faced major challenges around developing tractable measures and data availability. This has limited our understanding about patterns of agency and empowerment of women across countries. Measuring key dimensions of women's agency and empowerment is complex, but feasible and important. This paper systematically explores what can be l…
Measuring Socio-Economic Gender Inequality: Toward an Alternative to the UNDP Gender-Related Development Index
This paper assesses the United Nations Development Program’s (UNDP) Gender-Related Development Index (GDI). Although the GDI has increased attention on gender equality in human development, it suffers from several limitations. A major problem is that it conflates relative gender equality with absolute levels of human development and thus gives no information on comparative gender inequality among countries. Using the same indicators as the GDI, t…
What do the World Bank's Poverty Assessments teach us about Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa
As part of the World Bank's poverty reduction strategy, Poverty Assessments have been carried out for a number of countries which analyse who the poor are, the causes of poverty and poverty reduction policies. This article reviews what can be learnt from the twenty-five Assessments prepared for countries in sub-Saharan Africa up to 1996. Whilst other factors are acknowledged in identifying the poor, the Assessments over-emphasize income-poverty d…
The effect of armed conflict on intimate partner violence: Evidence from the Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is the most common form of violence against women in both conflict and non-conflict settings but in conflict settings it often receives less attention than other forms of gender-based violence (GBV), such as conflict-related sexual violence. To examine whether increased rates of IPV are linked to conflict we use data from Domestic Violence module of the Nigerian Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS) collected in 200…
Child Marriage: A Critical Barrier to Girls’ Schooling and Gender Equality in Education
Education is not only a human right, but also a powerful tool for women’s empowerment and a strategic development investment. There is a clear multiplier effect to educating girls; women who are educated are healthier, participate more in the formal labor market, earn more income, have fewer children, and provide better healthcare and education to their children compared to women with little or no education. The benefits of education thus transmi…
What do the World Bank's Poverty Assessments teach us about Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa
As part of the World Bank's poverty reduction strategy, Poverty Assessments have been carried out for a number of countries which analyse who the poor are, the causes of poverty and poverty reduction policies. This article reviews what can be learnt from the twenty-five Assessments prepared for countries in sub-Saharan Africa up to 1996. Whilst other factors are acknowledged in identifying the poor, the Assessments over-emphasize income-poverty d…
Measuring Socio-Economic Gender Inequality: Toward an Alternative to the UNDP Gender-Related Development Index
This paper assesses the United Nations Development Program’s (UNDP) Gender-Related Development Index (GDI). Although the GDI has increased attention on gender equality in human development, it suffers from several limitations. A major problem is that it conflates relative gender equality with absolute levels of human development and thus gives no information on comparative gender inequality among countries. Using the same indicators as the GDI, t…
Infant and child mortality in developing countries: Analysing the data for Robust determinants
Is development best achieved by going for growth, or does specific attention need to be paid to directly improving human welfare? In contrast to the Human Development Reports of the UNDP, the World Bank has stressed the growth approach. Recent work has reinforced this position by arguing that health spending is extremely ineffective in reducing infant or child mortality, which is mainly explained by a country's income per capita. This article con…
Voice and Agency: Empowering Women and Girls for Shared Prosperity
The 2012 World Development Report recognized that expanding women's agency - their ability to make decisions and take advantage of opportunities is key to improving their lives as well as the world. This report represents a major advance in global knowledge on this critical front. The vast data and thousands of surveys distilled in this report cast important light on the nature of constraints women and girls continue to face globally. This report…
Exploring Women's Agency and Empowerment in Developing Countries: Where do we stand
While central notions around agency are well established in academic literature, progress on the empirical front has faced major challenges around developing tractable measures and data availability. This has limited our understanding about patterns of agency and empowerment of women across countries. Measuring key dimensions of women's agency and empowerment is complex, but feasible and important. This paper systematically explores what can be l…
Child Marriage: A Critical Barrier to Girls’ Schooling and Gender Equality in Education
Education is not only a human right, but also a powerful tool for women’s empowerment and a strategic development investment. There is a clear multiplier effect to educating girls; women who are educated are healthier, participate more in the formal labor market, earn more income, have fewer children, and provide better healthcare and education to their children compared to women with little or no education. The benefits of education thus transmi…
The Role of Identification in Ending Child Marriage
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable \n Development’s Goal for Gender Equality (SDG5 to: Achieve \n Gender Equality and Empower Women and Girls) sets a series \n of ambitious targets that will measure progress towards \n attaining this goal. One such target is to: ‘eliminate all \n harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage \n and female genital mutilation. In this paper we examine how \n efforts to achieve legal identity for all, inc…
How Does Poverty Differ Among Refugees? Taking a Gender Lens to the Data on Syrian Refugees in Jordan
Data collected for refugee registration and to target humanitarian assistance include information about household composition and demographics that can be used to identify gender-based vulnerabilities. This paper combines the microdata collected by United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to register refugees with data from its Home Visit surveys to analyze income poverty rates among refugees with a gender lens. It finds distinguishing betwe…
Addressing the Needs of Women and Girls in Contexts of Forced Displacement
Conflict and Development - Conflict and Fragile States Gender - Gender and Poverty Gender - Gender and Social Development Social Development - Social Cohesion Social Development - Social Conflict and Violence Poverty Reduction - Migration and Development
How does poverty differ among refugees? Taking a gender lens to the data on Syrian refugees in Jordan
Many reports document the hardships experienced by refugees, highlighting that women and children are a highly vulnerable group. However, empirical analysis of how gender inequality impacts poverty among refugees is limited. We combine registration data for Syrian refugees in Jordan collected by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees with data from its Home Visit surveys to analyze income poverty rates among refugee households. We use …
Barriers to the Inclusion of Women and Marginalized Groups in Nigeria’s ID System
An estimated one billion people around the world do not have an officially recognized means of identification (ID). The majority live in low-income countries (LICs), particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. This study contributes to an overarching goal of building global knowledge about increasing women’s and marginalized groups’ access to and use of IDs to promote development. There is little systematic evidence about the causes of gender ga…
The Impact of Protracted Displacement on Syrian Refugees in Jordan: The Evolution of Household Composition and Poverty Rates
This paper examines the influence of \n gender inequality on poverty among Syrian refugees in Jordan \n between 2013 and 2018. Two waves of Home-Visit surveys, \n collected by the United Nations High Commissioner for \n Refugees, are analyzed to track the evolution of poverty \n among Syrian refugees in Jordan. To compare changes in \n poverty between female- and male-headed households, the \n paper uses relative comparisons of deciles in the \n …
The effect of armed conflict on intimate partner violence: Evidence from the Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is the most common form of violence against women in both conflict and non-conflict settings but in conflict settings it often receives less attention than other forms of gender-based violence (GBV), such as conflict-related sexual violence. To examine whether increased rates of IPV are linked to conflict we use data from Domestic Violence module of the Nigerian Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS) collected in 200…
Increasing Gender Equality in Fragile, Conflict, and Violence Settings
Fragility, conflict, and violence (FCV) significantly impact women and girls, exacerbating gender-based violence and limiting access to rights and services due to weakened institutions. Positive changes can emerge from crises, providing opportunities to reshape social norms and empower women. Achieving gender equality in these settings requires tailored approaches that consider local dynamics and involve influential non-state actors. The World Ba…
The Risk That Travels with You: Links Between Forced Displacement, Conflict and Intimate Partner Violence in Colombia and Liberia
Displacement and conflict substantially heighten the risk of gender-based violence including intimate partner violence (IPV), experienced by women and girls. This study aims to examine the links between conflict, forced displacement and IPV using nationally representative survey data measuring IPV combined with data on conflict-related violence from two different conflict-affected settings: Colombia and Liberia. We find that forced displacement i…
Political science (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (9 works) · Economic growth (8 works) · Economics (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Demographic economics (6 works) · Poverty (6 works) · Development economics (5 works)