This study investigates the effect of economic development on womens well being by relating a countrys per capita GDP with several dimensions that affect womens affluence and well being within the economic, social and political context. Data from a sample of low and middle-income category of...

This paper provides an assessment of efforts in six of the seven countries to improve public accountability to women in the development process. The paper begins with a brief theoretical discussion of feminist perspectives on the developmentalist state (Part I). It then goes on to provide an...