Many development programs that aim to alleviate poverty and improve investments in human capital consider women …'s empowerment a key pathway by which to achieve impact and often target women as their main beneficiaries. Despite this, women … concept and measurement of women's empowerment and then reviews some of the structural interventions that aim to influence …

grass root level in India as the voters and contestants. It focuses on the participation of women in the working of these …, examines the extent of participation of women in various elections held to the parliament, state legislatures and as well as … institutions. It also examines the various emerging trends in respect of the participation of women in the electoral politics as …

The plight of women in rural India in socioeconomic and political spheres is more depressed than that of their urban … counterparts. Although these women have been contributing significantly to the social and economic progress of the country, their … participation in development programmes has not been appreciated. Hence little place is there for women in development programmes …

The paper studies how well-being of women is impacted by the interaction of prevalent corruption levels with the forces … of globalisation. Given that corruption disproportionately affect women and girls as they generally start from low level … flows and political globalisation gets nullified by public sector corruption thereby actually reducing women's well …

users. This needs to be complemented by a focus on the empowerment of women and men, giving them the freedom to choose the … way women and men use, manage and control, inherit and own money in different ways across cultures. The one universal … trait is that women use more of their money, compared to men, for the welfare of their children and household. So financial …

The micro-credit programs provide the credit facilities in empowering women in rural areas. The study focuses the way … of increase the activities through micro credit in empowering poor women. For this purpose the problem is identified as … “To what extent the micro credit programme influences in empowering poor women in rural areas”. The prime objective of the …

The study was conducted to find out how NGOs help empower women in Ghana through enhanced agricultural activities, and … respondents, including women who have been part of NGO women empowerment programmes, women who have never been part of such … programmes, and some NGO workers in the Nadowli District of the Upper West Region of Ghana. The study found that women who have …