findings of a multi-country research programme, 'Pathways of Women's Empowerment', to explore pathways of positive change in … women's lives, in diverse contexts, and to draw together some lessons for policy and practice. It begins with an account of … women's empowerment in development, tracing some key ideas that have shaped feminist engagement with empowerment in theory …

It is well established that a wide range of legal impediments in countries' domestic laws have prevented women from … reflect and perpetuate gender norms that limit women's economic participation, and removal of these impediments through legal … reform has been shown to be an effective method to catalyze greater participation of women in the economy-along with the …

The paper studies how well-being of women is impacted by the interaction of prevalent corruption levels with the forces … of globalisation. Given that corruption disproportionately affect women and girls as they generally start from low level … flows and political globalisation gets nullified by public sector corruption thereby actually reducing women's well …

The impact of micro credit on the empowerment of women / Nasim Saadati, Prachi Kapil, Mansour Esmaeil Zaei -- Hybrid … healthcare will lead the way in empowering women across emerging markets : reimagine and revolutionise the future of female … healthcare / Samantha Dumas, Charlotte Pedersen, Sophie Smith -- The role of women empowerment on accessing sustainable …

WTO has been focusing on women with the aim of building their capacity to trade and using trade as a tool for their … Declaration on Trade and Women's Economic Empowerment which identified Aid for Trade as a key instrument to assist members in … "analysing, designing and implementing more gender-responsive trade policies". Three key facts on women's economic empowerment …

This paper looks at the various trade policies WTO Members have put into place to foster women's economic empowerment … them have reported at least one trade policy targeting women's economic empowerment. Overall, in four years, almost half of … the WTO membership has implemented trade policies in support of women (at least one). Most (about 70%) of the WTO Members2 …

Background: This research explores the repercussions of the COVID-19 emergency on women’s enablement worldwide … various metrics pertinent to women’s empowerment, encompassing the ratio of employed females to the total populace, women …’s labor force involvement, female representation in legislative assemblies, young women disengaged from education, occupation …

responsibility, through the lens of women's empowerment and their role in shaping eco-friendly policies. Examining 74 nations, the … study reveals that women's influence significantly reduces greenhouse gas emissions within an empowerment index of 67 … different financial indicators, the study underscores that women's empowerment is distinctly correlated with lowering emissions …