Women Empowerment and Economic Development
Journal of Economic Literature
2012
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Women empowerment and economic development are closely related: in one direction, development alone can play a major role in driving down inequality between men and women; in the other direction, empowering women may benefit development. Does this imply that pushing just one of these two levers would set a virtuous circle in motion? This paper reviews the literature on both sides of the empowerment—development nexus, and argues that the interrelationships are probably too weak to be self-sustaining, and that continuous policy commitment to equality for its own sake may be needed to bring about equality between men and women. (JEL I14, I24, I32, I38, J13, J16, O15)
- DOI
- 10.1257/jel.50.4.1051
- Volume
- 50 (4)
- Pages
- 1051-1079
- Language
- en
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