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Lillian Trager, professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside for over 30 years, served as director of the university’s Center for International Studies from 1993-1998. Her research focused primarily on Nigerian community ties,…

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.

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

This report, which includes annual data from 1984 through 2009, provides a comprehensive overview of women’s economic progress over the last twenty-five years and highlights the additional work left to be done.

Dedicated to the education and advocacy that will improve long-term financial quality of life for women. As the only organization to focus exclusively on the unique financial challenges that women face, WISER supports women’s opportunities to secure…

A roadmap to catalyze program and policy action for women's economic empowerment. Reports include A Roadmap for Promoting Women's Economic Empowerment, published in September 2013, and Measuring Women's Economic Empowerment, published in June 2015.

An evidence based report that summarizes the findings of 18 research efforts commissioned specifically for this project across four categories of employment – entrepreneurship, farming, wage employment and young women's employment.

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.

The Impact on Marriage: Program Assessment of Conditional Cash Transfers (IMPACCT) study by the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) adds to the existing evidence on CCTs as a possible solution to delay the age of marriage and improve…

Presents an analysis of the current debates about food sovereignty from a gender perspective, in which the international and Latin American peasant women movement have played a central role.