It is assumed that self-help groups (SHGs) will play a larger role in its countribution towards improving women … paper reviews scope and limitations of self-help groups in improving women's health and empowerment focusing on empirical … viewed only from an economic perspective. The existing approach emphasizes economic development of people and women in …

Forty-five years ago, the first Regional Conference on the Integration of Women into the Economic and Social … Conference of the International Women’s Year (Mexico City, 1975). This meeting culminated in the adoption by the governments of … the region of the Regional Plan of Action for the Integration of Women into Latin American Economic and Social Development …

Middle East and North Africa region by examining the effects of aid to Women's Equality Organizations and Institutions on … women's political empowerment, measured by the proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments. We use panel data … planning and reproductive health. The econometric results suggest that official development assistance ... to women' equality …