Background: Women’s empowerment is fundamental to sustainable human development. However, tools for measuring women’s empowerment in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are limited by lack of validity and comparability. The role of male partners in relation to women’s empowerment has...

Insufficient attention has been given to the need to nurture the new emerging forms of sustainable entrepreneurship which are required to meet the sustainable development objectives for emerging economies like Brazil. In this chapter, we focus on finance as an essential enabler, critically...