This paper examines whether globalization promotes female empowerment by improving the jobs available to women. Previous work has documented that exporting causally improved working conditions at predominantly female garment factories in Myanmar. In this study, restricting to garment factory...

This paper investigates the causal link between education and domestic violence incidence through a Regression Discontinuity design, which exploits the 1994 Free Primary Education reform in Malawi. Using data from the 2015-16 of the Malawi Demographic and Health Survey, I find that the reform...

Freedom of association and the right to form organisations that are genuinely accountable and advance poor people's interests may contribute to sustainable poverty reduction and food security. Cooperatives can help in assuring farmers to have access to inputs, credit, output markets, and...

It is a challenge to empower women in particular the rural women. Informal business in rural area can help to meet this challenge. Keeping in view the importance of the research work on women empowerment, the present study aims to discuss aspects of psychological empowerment through informal...

Even though there is a growing interest to empower rural women in all economic activities. Works of literature are scant to evaluate the role of small-scale irrigation technology on women empowerment. This study evaluates the impact of the adoption of small-scale irrigation technologies on women...