Women's Empowerment and Economic Development

Esther Duflo

No 8734, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

Abstract: Women?s 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 inter-relationships 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.

Keywords: Gender equality; Women's empowerment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D1 O12 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-01
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dev, nep-hme, nep-hpe and nep-ltv
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