Open AccessWomen Empowerment and Economic Development
Author(s) -
Esther Duflo
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of economic literature
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 11.771
H-Index - 160
eISSN - 1547-1101
pISSN - 0022-0515
DOI - 10.1257/jel.50.4.1051
Subject(s) - nexus (standard) , empowerment , virtuous circle and vicious circle , inequality , women's empowerment , gender equality , set (abstract data type) , economics , economic growth , economic system , political science , development economics , sociology , gender studies , engineering , computer science , mathematical analysis , programming language , mathematics , macroeconomics , embedded system
Women empowerment and economic development are closely related: in one direction, development alone can play a major role in driving down inequality between men and women; in the other direction, empowering women may benefit development. Does this imply that pushing just one of these two levers would set a virtuous circle in motion? This paper reviews the literature on both sides of the empowerment–development nexus, and argues that the interrelationships are probably too weak to be self-sustaining, and that continuous policy commitment to equality for its own sake may be needed to bring about equality between men and women
Accelerating Research
Robert Robinson Avenue,
Oxford Science Park, Oxford
OX4 4GP, United Kingdom
Address
John Eccles HouseRobert Robinson Avenue,
Oxford Science Park, Oxford
OX4 4GP, United Kingdom