for Women Empowerment in Africa Initiative, Nigeria This edited volume assesses the progress that sub-Saharan African … Tutelage for Women Empowerment in Africa Initiative. … Development Goals in Africa…. A must-read for all those working in the field of sustainable development.” Michael Ngoasong, Gender …

-income women. In response to widespread discontent with the liberalization agenda, more attention is now being given to social …

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 …

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 …

We investigate the effect of Islamist terrorist activity on women's economic, political and legal position in society … groups is associated with lower levels of women's empowerment and rights. Various instrumental-variable approaches yield the … same conclusion, suggesting that the adverse effect of Islamist terrorism on women' rights is causal. Further emphasizing …