Este trabajo analiza la relevancia de la disponibilidad de recursos económicos, sociales y
educativos en la definición de los niveles de poder de decisión de las mexicanas en el …

This paper begins from the understanding that women's empowerment is about the process
by which those who have been denied the ability to make strategic life choices acquire such …

The World Bank has identified empowerment as one of the key constituent elements of
poverty reduction, and as a primary development assistance goal. The Bank has also made …

This paper explores the reasons why recent evaluations of the empowerment potential of
credit programs for rural women in Bangladesh have arrived at very conflicting conclusions …

288 for women, feeding frequency, immunization, and quality of substitute caretakers.
Among the develo**-country regions, South Asia's particularly high child malnutrition rate …

In this path-breaking study, social economist Naila Kabeer examines the lives of
Bangladeshi garment workers in Bangladesh and Britain to shed light on the question of …

The empowerment of women has been widely acknowledged as an important goal in
international development. But the meanings and terminologies associated with this concept …

According to the State of the Microcredit Summit Campaign 2001 Report, 14.2 million of the
world's poorest 1 women now have access to financial services through specialized …

This revised and updated third edition of Gender and Development provides a concise,
accessible introduction to gender and development issues in the develo** world and in …

Can economic ties positively influence social relations and actions? If so, how does this
influence operate? Microfinance programs, which provide credit through a group-based …