Inheritance and the intergenerational transmission of poverty
11th October, 2010
Overseas Development Institute, London, UK
CPRC
ODI
Description
Workshop hosted by the Chronic Poverty Research Centre and Overseas Development Institute.
Asset ownership supports social mobility. It influences a person’s ability to move out of poverty, underpins household livelihoods and supports coping strategies and investment. Land is the most important asset in low income developing countries and most people gain access to land through inheritance. However, ownership and control of land is highly gendered and women hold only 1-2% of individually titled land. Women rarely inherit and access land through their fathers, husbands, sons or brothers. This has implications for women’s agency and well-being and also in their ability to invest in their children with implications for the intergenerational transmission of poverty.
Speakers and schedule
Key speakers include:
- Kate Bird, ODI and CPRC
- Elizabeth Cooper, Oxford University
- Jessica Espey, Save The Children
- Cheryl Doss, Yale University
- Amber Peterman, IFPRI
- Robert Miller, Queen’s University
Full conference agenda available here
Event website
For more information, please contact the Overseas Development Institute
Meeting reports
Papers
- Inheritance, poverty dynamics and the intergenerational transmission of poverty, workshop paper | presentation
- A five country study of inheritance policy in Sub-Saharan Africa, workshop paper | presentation
- Girls, assets and entitlements, workshop paper | presentation
- Marital Regimes and Asset Inheritance in Uganda,
workshop paper | presentation - Conceptualising stigma, gender and generational inequalities in asset inheritance and the intergenerational transmission of poverty for women with HIV and young people with caring responsibilities in Tanzania and Uganda, | presentation
- Widowhood and asset inheritance in Sub-Saharan Africa: evidence from 15 countries, workshop paper | presentation
- Inheritance, Legal Reform, and Gender Differences in Poverty and Well-Being in Rural Ethiopia, workshop paper | presentation
- Livestock or the pen: Is education a route out of poverty for pastoralists? workshop paper | presentation
- How Ghana’s Grassroots Sisterhood Foundation and the Huairou Commission support equitable inheritance, | presentation
- Inheritance and poverty exits in Kenya, | presentation
The published CPRC Working Papers are available here.
Resources and links
NB
See also the Empowering women, reducing child poverty and enabling women to inherit, held on 12th October 2010 at the ODI, London.