Women Empowerment and Economic Development
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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.
Date issued
2012-12Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of EconomicsJournal
Journal of Economic Literature
Publisher
American Economic Association
Citation
Duflo, Esther. “Women Empowerment and Economic Development.” Journal of Economic Literature 50, no. 4 (December 2012): 1051-1079.
Version: Final published version
ISSN
0022-0515
2328-8159