Does Islamic microfinance contribute to economic empowerment in Tunisia?: a case study of Zitouna Tamkeen [PDF]
Purpose – Islamic microfinance is a substantial tool for poverty alleviation and economic empowerment. The paper aims at accessing the potential of Islamic microfinance for the purpose of achieving the economic empowerment in Tunisia.
Takwa Zitouni, Khoutem Ben Jedidia
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Factors affecting rural women economic empowerment in Wolaita Ethiopia
Empowering rural women economically helps to ensure gender equality, the well-being of nation and the basic needs of a family. This study was conducted to figure out factors affecting rural women economic empowerment endeavors of development ...
Berhanu Kuma, Abebech Godana
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Impact of microfinance on women’s economic empowerment
Women’s economic empowerment a strategy aimed at enabling women in decision-making, increment in income and asset ownership. The main aim of the study is to examine the impact of microfinance on women’s economic empowerment.
Belay Mengstie
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Economic empowerment of rural and urban women in India: A comparative analysis [PDF]
The status of women is intimately connected with their economic situation depending upon the opportunity for participation in economic activities. The census data, 2011 shows a vast inequality between rural and urban women work participation as urban ...
Biswas B, Banu N.
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Economic empowerment and intimate partner violence: a secondary data analysis of the cross-sectional Demographic Health Surveys in Sub-Saharan Africa. [PDF]
Background Intimate partner violence (IPV) has been recognized as a defining human rights, development and public health issue of our time. Economic empowerment is one of the most promising interventions to reduce IPV in sub-Saharan Africa, yet the ...
Stöckl H +3 more
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Women’s Economic Empowerment [PDF]
Aid for Trade supports developing and least-developed countries in building their trade capacity and in increasing their exports by turning market access opportunities into market presence. It does so by addressing four key areas: trade policy & regulations; economic infrastructure; building productive capacity; and trade-related adjustment.
Jyotsna Jha +4 more
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The role of economic empowerment for mental health in the Global South [PDF]
There is a great potential for carefully designed economic empowerment programmes to improve mental health in recipients and their significant others. Onono and colleagues interviewed 62 caregiver-adolescent dyads on the effect of an economic empowerment
Monika Müller +2 more
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Economic Empowerment of Women [PDF]
This document presents a two page overview of UN Women's work on economic empowerment: "Many international commitments support women's economic empowerment, including the Beijing Platform for Action, [CEDAW] and a series of [ILO] conventions on gender ...
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This study investigates the impact of financial literacy on women’s economic empowerment, particularly through the use of digital financial services.
Mohsin Showkat +3 more
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Comparative effectiveness of an economic empowerment program on adolescent economic assets, education and health in a humanitarian setting. [PDF]
Background Adolescence is a critical period of human development, however, limited research on programs to improve health and well-being among younger adolescents living in conflict-affected and humanitarian settings exists. The purpose of this study was
Glass N +6 more
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