Economic Empowerment
BRIDGE publications
This report - consisting of an overview report and annotated bibliography - explores the dominant analysis taking hold around women's economic empowerment and seeks to promote a nuanced understanding of the gendered barriers that prevent some women from benefiting from economic opportunities or from being empowered despite access to these opportunities.
Documents on Economic Empowerment (130)
Author:
S. Turrall (ed),
Knowledge Services, IDS, Jan 2012
Gender justice and ending hunger are closely entwined, interdependent goals. Solving hunger now and in the future involves challenging the current global development model which permits – and is driven ...
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Author:
E Skinner,
Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK, Nov 2011
Climate change is increasingly being recognised as a global crisis, but responses to it have so far been overly focused on scientific and economic solutions. How then do we move ...
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Author:
M. Velayudhan,
BRIDGE, Mar 2008
Studies have shown that a key factor associated with rural poverty is access to land. Yet in many parts of India there remains a huge gender gap in land ownership ...
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Author:
M. Mphale; R. Slater,
BRIDGE, Mar 2008
What impact do cash-transfers have on gender relations? There are two main ways in which cash transfer projects are seen as having potentially negative impacts on gender relations within recipient ...
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Author:
V Kuchařová;S Jurajda;D. Münich,
Gender Studies, o.p.s., Jan 2007
These three papers provide the results of studies concerning the position of women and men in the Czech labour market which were carried out as a part of the European ...
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