Browse Items (33 total)

  • Collection: Economic Empowerment, Poverty, and Development

ec_opps_for_women__poor.pdf
Explains how low-income women and the very poor in Rwanda are generally excluded from the process of economic development due to lack of resources and services. This report analyzes the economic opportunities available to these groups.

BSR_ICRW_Building_Effective_Womens_Economic_Empowerment_Strategies-.pdf
Report that draws on insights gathered from interviews with 10 multinational companies actively engaged in advancing women's economic empowerment, as well as a comprehensive review of the latest literature and leading company practices and programs.

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CINI’s overarching aim is to enable poor people, women and children to take control of their lives and have a share in sustainable development. We are active in deprived communities, both in villages and low-income urban settlements. We seek to break…

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A network of feminist scholars, researchers and activists from the economic South working for economic and gender justice and sustainable and democratic development.

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Empowering Adolescent Girls in Developing Countries explores the detrimental impact of discriminatory gender norms on adolescent girls’ lives across very different contexts. Grounded in four years of in-depth research in Ethiopia, Nepal, Uganda and…

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A dynamic platform to improve the sharing of evidence, experiences and good practices on women’s economic empowerment developed by UN Women and Canada.

fact_and_fiction_examining_microcredit_from_feminist_eng.pdf
A report that provides, first, a definition of microcredit, then situates the tool both historically and within present debates on development and economics and finally discusses its impact on particular groups of women.

buen vivir.pdf
This article introduces Buen Vivir both as a concept and in its implementation in public policies in Bolivia. The notion that Buen Vivir is gender neutral is examined in light of the fact that the main challenges are dismantling patriarchal power…

girlhood-interrupted.pdf
A report from the Center on Poverty and Inequality at Georgetown Law discussing data showing that adults view Black girls as less innocent and more adult-like than their white peers in the age range of 5-14.

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