This paper reviews the channels through which empowerment may improve the efficiency and quality of public service … three broad measures aimed at empowering the poor: empowerment through voice, empowerment through exit, and empowerment …

women, empowerment will give leeway to girls in traditional societies, even if the bride price system is not overturned. …

Although empowerment is seen as intrinsically important and instrumentally valuable to escape poverty, there is very … little research on the empirical drivers of empowerment. Using custom-made household-level information and using advanced … drivers of empowerment. We also show that respondents'' confidence that they will be the most powerful agents in their lives …