Assessing the Socio-economic Determinants of Women Empowerment in Pakistan

Socio-economic Empowerment of Women in Pakistan; Evidences from Gilgit-baltistan

Empowering women and promoting gender equality has always been the major priorities throughout the globe. However Pakistani women still living in quagmire of centuries old patriarchal system and traditions which barricade their socio-economic and political empowerment. The present study examine the perceptions of local women and working staff and measured the impact of Local Supportive Organiza...

Economic Empowerment of Women

ICT Mediated Learning for Socio-Economic Empowerment

ICT can advance the learning process by making it faster, cheaper, and wider reaching that was not possible before. This form of learning can be treated as an interactive one among many and supporting the improvement of this process is expected to produce better result. However, innovative processes have to be incorporated both in terms of pedagogy and technology. Pedagogy should be universal a...

Socio-economic determinants of household out-of-pocket payments on healthcare in Pakistan

BACKGROUND Out-of-pocket (OOP) payment on healthcare is dominant mode of financing in developing countries. In Pakistan it is 67% of total expenditure on healthcare. Analysis of determinants of OOP health expenditure is a key aspect of equity in healthcare financing. It helps to formulate an effective health policy. Evidence on OOP in Pakistan is sparse. This paper attempts to fill this researc...

Women Empowerment and Economic Development

T persistence of gender inequality is most starkly brought home in the phenomenon of “missing women.” The term was coined by Amartya Sen in a now classic article in the New York Review of Books (Sen 1990) to capture the fact that the proportion of women is lower than what would be expected if girls and women throughout the developing world were born and died at the same rate, relative to boys a...