... can be contacted at: hauwah.kamaluddeen@kwasu.edu.ng 21 09 2024 15 03 2025 11 10 2025 03 05 2026 Microfinance Women empowerment Economic empowerment Income empowerment Non-income empowerment West African Research Association, Boston University 2019 Ideas...

...Liliane Odette Medjo Obia; Therese E. Zogo; Vanessa Tchamyou; Simplice Asongu Purpose Under-five mortality remains a significant challenge in Cameroon, despite ongoing efforts to enhance child health in developing nations. This study examines the impact of women’s empowerment on reducing under...

...Debabrata Mukhopadhyay Purpose This study examines the status of women’s empowerment and its socio-economic determinants based on living conditions across 22 Indian states and Union Territories by constructing a composite women empowerment index of six components including women participation...

...Prihana Vasishta; Anju Singla Purpose This study examines the research landscape on women empowerment and self-help groups (SHGs) using bibliometric analysis and network cluster analysis. It also intends to create a model that prioritizes the sustainability of women-led SHGs in order to promote...

... with hydrocarbon resource wealth. Originality/value Women’s empowerment is a major issue on the global development agenda, featuring most notably in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 5 on achieving women equality and empowerment of women and girls. There is scant evidence about how hydrocarbon...

...Tanushree Mahato; Manish Kumar Jha Purpose There has been a substantial increase in the implementation of programmes that aim to enhance the livelihoods of rural people by organizing them into groups, emphasizing women towards achieving women empowerment, which is one of the key goals...

... factor analysis Organic farming TOSS-revised scale Women empowerment Women farmer The ever-growing population has made it difficult for the agricultural system to meet the food demand of Asian nations such as China, India, Indonesia, and Bangladesh, resulting in escalated dependency...

...Chandan Kumar Roy; Huang Xiaoling Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate whether aggregate and sectoral disbursement of aid for trade (AfT) facilitates achieving gender equality and women empowerment in aid-recipient developing countries for the period 2005–2019. Design/methodology...

...Amanuel Kussia Guyalo; Esubalew Abate Alemu; Degefa Tolossa Degaga Purpose Despite intense debates about the outcomes of large-scale agricultural investment in developing countries, gender issues and employment effects of such investment on women empowerment are very thin in the literature...