sets of indicators for monitoring inequality among social groups based on census and household surveys. The result is a set … of indicators and synthetic indices that can be disaggregated by social groups, in a way that allows the monitoring of …

is more effective in preserving or enhancing valuable capabilities. Thus development can be democratically dysfunctional …

lives, hindering development. This article presents the Framework for Enabling Empowerment (FrEE), a model that emphasizes …

"Parallel to the growing attention being devoted to the relationship between empowerment and development, an increasing … number of tools are being developed to measure empowerment and determine the link between these two phenomena. This paper … Index, an innovative tool to measure community capabilities in the domain of natural resource governance. Empirical …

cognitively and socially vulnerable, rendering them susceptible to harmful exploitation. We defend an empowerment theory of …

for women's empowerment. Available results of impact studies call for circumspection; microfinance can free women from …

in the case of historically oppressed groups (the largest being women) such as cultural/religious minorities, homosexuals …

The study’s two aims are: (a) to investigate whether groups, as compared to individuals, show a different degree of … underlying mechanism behind groups’ decision-making processes. A total of 138 graduate students were randomly assigned to 35 … groups of 3 members each; and 33 were randomly labeled as “individuals.” The study simulated two scenarios in which the …

with partners from different groups. They then allocated money between themselves and other participants. In punishment …

. Previous works have proved that a virus can spread effectively in social networks. In this paper, groups in social networks are … studied. We notice that groups on social network services sites can assemble people with similar characteristics, which may … promote virus propagation in these networks. After our analysis, it is found that the use of groups can shorten the distance …