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Nigerian women. Female empowerment in Nigeria is an economic process that involves empowering Nigerian women as a poverty reduction measure. [1] [2] Empowerment is the development of women in terms of politics, social and economic strength in nation development. It is also a way of reducing women's vulnerability and dependency in all spheres of ...
Gender and development is an interdisciplinary field of research and applied study that implements a feminist approach to understanding and addressing the disparate impact that economic development and globalization have on people based upon their location, gender, class background, and other socio-political identities.
University of Reading Master's Thesis submitted to Graduate Institute of International and Applied Economics; Pala, A.O. Women’s access to land and their role in agriculture and decision-making on the farm: experiences of the Joluo of Kenya. 1983. Journal of Eastern African Research and Development Vol. 13, pg 69–85
Ester Boserup, a scholar of historical economics, published her groundbreaking book, Women's Role in Economic Development, in 1970. [19] This book illustrated the central role women had played in the history of Africa as economic producers and how those systems had been disrupted by colonialism.
The United Nations paper International Development Strategy for the Third United Nations Development Decade, issued in 1980, recognized a number of Women in Development issues. It called for women to play an active role in all sectors and at all levels of the Program of Action adopted by the World Conference of the United Nations Decade for ...
African Journal of International Affairs and Development; African Journal of International and Comparative Law; African Journal of Library, Archives and Information Science; African Journal of Marine Science; African Journal of Political Economy; African Journal of Political Science; African Journal on Conflict Resolution; African Journals OnLine
Nathan Nunn (born July 9, 1974) is a Canadian economist and professor of the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia. [1] He is best known for his research on the long-term effects of slave trade on Africa. His research interests include economic development, cultural economics, political economy and international ...
Women in Law & Development in Africa was established in February 1990 during a regional conference in Harare, Zimbabwe (with the theme of "Women, right and development: network for empowerment in Africa") [6] as a result of 6 women coming together with the idea for a pan-African organization after attending the World Women's Conference held in Nairobi, 1985. [7]