Globalization and the Empowerment of Women: An Analysis of Spatial Dependence via Trade and Foreign Direct Investment

Eric Neumayer and Indra de Soysa

World Development, 2011, vol. 39, issue 7, 1065-1075

Abstract: Summary This article tests the hypothesis that higher women's economic and social rights in foreign countries with which a country is connected via trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) spill-over into higher rights among the laggards--a phenomenon known as spatial dependence. Analyzing women's rights over the period 1981-2007 in a global sample and samples of countries at different stages of economic development, we find consistent evidence for spill-over effects via trade links, with the exception of a sample of low-income countries. We also find some evidence for similar effects via FDI, but only for economic rights and only in middle-income countries.

Keywords: women's; rights; spatial; dependence; diffusion; globalization; trade; FDI (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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