Does female empowerment promote economic development?
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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...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Economic Growth
سال: 2019
ISSN: 1381-4338,1573-7020
DOI: 10.1007/s10887-019-09172-4