The Global Financial Crisis and Women in West Africa: Developing Impacts and the Implications of Policy Responses

The Global Financial Crisis and Women in West Africa: Developing Impacts and the Implications of Policy Responses

This series of briefs entitled The crisis’ impact on women’s rights, published by the , includes sub-regional perspectives on the impacts seen to date of the current crisis on women and women’s rights as well as those likely to come. These sub-regional analyses are a key input from women activists and analysts to inform development debates and decisions that are being made to respond to the crisis. The series also includes a cross-regional and global analysis.

Dzodzi Tsikata

Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID)

2009

English