Women's Empowerment and Economic Development

Esther Duflo

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Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics Income, Poverty, and Inequality Gender, Education, and Development Issues

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Women's empowerment and economic development are closely related: in one direction, development alone can play a major role in driving down inequality between men and women; in the other direction, empowering women may benefit development.Does this imply that pushing just one of these two levers would set a virtuous circle in motion?This paper reviews the literature on both sides of the empowerment-development nexus, and argues that the inter-relationships are probably too weak to be self-sustaining, and that continuous policy commitment to equality for its own sake may be needed to bring about equality between men and women.

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