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    Women’s empowerment, HIV and the MDGs: hearing the voices of HIV positive women

    UNDP India, 2010
    More than 25 years into the HIV and AIDS epidemic, gender inequality and unequal power relations between and among women and men continue to be major drivers of HIV transmission. Gender inequality and harmful gender norms are not only associated with the spread of HIV but also with its consequences which affect women especially HIV positive women, such as stigma and targeted violence.
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    Women's empowerment: a scoping study

    Aurat Publication and Information Service Foundation, 2011
    Women's empowerment is a complex, multi-dimensional, fluid and emerging concept within feminism and development literature. It has economic, political, social, cultural, religious, personal, psychological and emotional elements. Empowerment appears to be context-specific and has multiple determinants.
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    Women's empowerment in India: an analytical overview

    Asia Foundation, 2010
    Women’s empowerment in India is heavily dependent on many different variables that include geographical location (urban/rural), educational status, social status (caste and class), and age.
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    National mechanism for gender equality and the empowerment of women in Latin America and the Caribbean region

    United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2010
    Since the 1990s, despite some setbacks, Latin American and Caribbean countries, have advanced in the process of setting up national mechanisms for the advancement of women and have managed to carve out a formal space in the state apparatus as part of the democratization process that has transpired in the region in the past few years.
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    Bridging the gender divide: how technology can advance women economically

    International Center for Research on Women, USA, 2010
    Intention and innovation can generate real economic benefits to women in the developing world. In a groundbreaking study, ICRW examines technology initiatives that have enabled women to develop their economic potential, become stronger leaders and more effective contributors to their families, communities and domestic economies.
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    Does female empowerment promote economic development?

    World Bank, 2011
    Empirical evidence suggests that money in the hands of mothers (as opposed to their husbands) benefits children. Does this observation imply that targeting transfers to women is good economic policy? The authors develop a series of noncooperative family bargaining models to understand what kind of frictions can give rise to the observed empirical relationships.
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    Women's economic empowerment: issues paper

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2011
    Economic empowerment is the capacity of women and men to participate in, contribute to and benefit from growth processes in ways which recognise the value of their contributions, respect their dignity and make it possible to negotiate a fairer distribution of the benefits of growth.
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    SADC gender protocol 2011 barometer

    Gender Links, Johannesburg, 2012
    The third Southern Africa Gender Protocol Barometer moves into high gear with the introduction of the SADC Gender and Development Index (SGDI) that complements the Citizen Score Card (CSC) that has been running for three years.
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    Making markets empower the poor: programme perspectives on using markets to empower women and men living in poverty

    Oxfam, 2011
    Market-based development programmes can help people living in poverty benefit from markets and lift themselves out of poverty. However, many such approaches do not pay attention to power imbalances that perpetuate marginalisation and poverty. To reach their fullest potential, market-based programmes should actively strengthen the power of marginalised smallholders and women.
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    Ethiopia's sesame sector: the contribution of different farming models to poverty alleviation, climate resilience and women's empowerment

    Make Trade Fair Campaign, Oxfam International, 2011
    Oxfam commissioned this research to assess the contribution of different agricultural business models to poverty alleviation, livelihood security, climate resilience, and empowerment of women in the sesame sector in Metekel and Assosa in Benishangul Gumuz, Ethiopia....

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