Promoting Women's Economic Empowerment : What Works?

A review of rigorous evaluations of interventions that seek to empower women economically shows that the same class of interventions has significantly different outcomes depending on the client. Capital alone, as a small cash loan or grant, is not sufficient to grow women-owned subsistence-level fir...

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Main Authors: Buvinić, Mayra, Furst-Nichols, Rebecca
Language:en_US
Published: Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2017
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27699