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Women's Empowerment and Economic Development

Publisher: NBER Working Paper No. 17702
Author: Esther Duflo
Type: Report
Date: December 2011
Location in CRTDA: http://www.nber.org/papers/w17702.pdf
Women’s 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 inter-relationships 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.

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