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sets of indicators for monitoring inequality among social groups based on census and household surveys. The result is a set … of indicators and synthetic indices that can be disaggregated by social groups, in a way that allows the monitoring of …
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in the case of historically oppressed groups (the largest being women) such as cultural/religious minorities, homosexuals …
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"Parallel to the growing attention being devoted to the relationship between empowerment and development, an increasing … number of tools are being developed to measure empowerment and determine the link between these two phenomena. This paper … Index, an innovative tool to measure community capabilities in the domain of natural resource governance. Empirical …
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lives, hindering development. This article presents the Framework for Enabling Empowerment (FrEE), a model that emphasizes …
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is more effective in preserving or enhancing valuable capabilities. Thus development can be democratically dysfunctional …
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cognitively and socially vulnerable, rendering them susceptible to harmful exploitation. We defend an empowerment theory of …
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for women's empowerment. Available results of impact studies call for circumspection; microfinance can free women from …
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important decisions are made by small groups. Little systematic work has been done to study the behavior of small groups as … there are systematic differences between decisions made by groups and individual agents in market environments characterized …
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is that diversity is a subjective experience that can be captured via the social identity groups to which members feel to …
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A model of group decision-making is studied, in which one of two alternatives must be chosen. While group members differ in their valuations of the alternatives, everybody prefers some alternative to disagreement. Our model is distinguished by three features: private information regarding...
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