This special edition of Contemporary Studies in Economic and Financial Analysis offers twenty-three chapters by invited participants in the International Applied Social Science Congress. In these chapters chronical a wide variety of important issues such as: Volatility spillover between...

Women empowerment and emancipation / Meltem INCE YENILMEZ -- The effect of women empowerment on national economies : challenges and obstacles women face / Bahar TANER -- How does women's empowerment affect a country's economy? / Sonja /URICIN -- Women empowerment and income inequality during...