Women’s Economic Empowerment: Key Issues and Policy Options

Reforms with a Female Face: Gender, Liberalization, and Economic Policy in Andhra Pradesh, India

— The state of Andhra Pradesh, India, provides a case study of a liberalization program with an emphasis on women’s empowerment. Based on the state budget data and fieldwork data from two villages, this paper investigates the content of this policy regime to argue that women’s empowerment policies were ultimately constrained by the policy context of liberalization. The state lowered shares of e...

Women’s Economic Empowerment – Practice and Policy Implications from the Enterprise Challenge Fund

ICT and Women’s Empowerment in Egypt: An Empirical Study

Studying the Digital Gender Divide in African countries, including Egypt, is considered vital for social and economic development. It is an established fact that one of the UN Millennium Development Goals is gender equality and the empowerment of women. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) can be the vehicle to achieve this goal. This study applies econometric techniques to shed some ...

The Health Effects of Women Empowerment: Recent Evidence from Northern Ghana

Women empowerment could be the key for unlocking women’s productivity potential in Africa. Women’s contribution to the agricultural sector is also greatly influenced by their health status. This paper examines the impact of women’s empowerment on women’s health and the implications for African food and agricultural sector. It utilizes unique dataset from 2012 survey of 2,405 women in northern G...

Women’s empowerment and value chains: Experiences of women in Cambodia, Palestine and Uganda

This paper presents findings of an evaluation undertaken by ActionAid Australia and local partners in Uganda, Palestine and Cambodia to understand how changes in economic participation affect women’s lives, and how women value these changes. The projects were supported through the Australian NGO Cooperation Program (ANCP). It is timely to revisit women’s empowerment as aid agencies around the w...