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Building women's economic empowerment
International Trade Forum, 2016The adoption of the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in September 2015 marked a momentous year for the United Nations. They aim to transform lives in the 21st century and address such challenges as poverty, gender inequality and unemployment.
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Visible Barriers to Economic Empowerment
2015This chapter presents some barriers to grassroots empowerment; namely, when government prescriptive approaches take precedence over the felt needs of those to be empowered; empowerment projects are likely to fail. This chapter demonstrates that poverty reduction strategies left to the decisions of the government promote the use of one-size-fit-all ...
Rebecca Nthogo Lekoko +3 more
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Socio-Economic Empowerment Through Technologies
2011The chapter presents a case of a community development project known as Lentswe La Oodi Weavers in a rural village, Oodi, in the Kgatleng district of Botswana with a goal of socio-economic empowerment for women operating it and for the community. The project reinforces sentiments that technology work best for local communities if it is compatible with ...
Oitshepile MmaB Modise +2 more
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Chimurengas, Indigenisation, Black Economic Empowerment
2018In this chapter, the linguistic and discursive aspects of economic nationalisation, land reform and indigenisation programmes in Zimbabwe and South Africa are examined. South Africa’s (Broad-based) Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) policies and the Zimbabwean experience are treated as being comparable in so far as they are both motivated by the ...
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Women, Empowerment, and Economic Development
The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1997Development policies and programs tend not to view women as integral to the economic development process. This is reflected in the higher investments in women's reproductive rather than their productive roles, mainly in population programs. Yet women throughout the developing world engage in economically productive work and earn incomes.
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