-disaggregated data set on India. Empowerment is measured by women's decision-making ability, mobility, financial autonomy, reproductive …Electrification has been shown to accelerate opportunities for women by moving them into more productive activities …. This paper investigates the causal link between electricity access and women's empowerment, using a large gender …

-strand programs can help to explain the paradox as to why nearly 100 million women (in India alone) have participated in self help …This paper offers an evaluation of a supported women's self help program with over 1.5 million participants in one of … the poorest rural regions of the world (Uttar Pradesh, India). Methodologically, it shows how indicators from the direct …

economic barriers to their empowerment have been removed. Without gender equality and women’s empowerment, the Sustainable … Development Goals will not be achieved. Yet investments into gender equality and women’s empowerment are lagging behind … investments for most other goals. Implementing commitments to gender equality and women’s empowerment requires a range of tools …