“Ogechi Adeola has brought together an outstanding team of practitioners and researchers to put together an excellent book in terms of both range and depth. The work examines the interlinkages between gender, empowerment, and the Sustainable Development Goals in Africa…. A must-read for all...

Economic theory suggests that growth may improve gender equality directly by raising women's employment and indirectly by reducing poverty-thereby causing poorer families to discriminate less against females in intra-household allocations. This paper argues that growth in India has not...

The Fourth United Nations World Conference on Women in 1995 marked an important step in addressing the gender dimension of poverty. 'Women and Poverty' was identified as the first area of concern of the BPfA. In 2007, under the Portuguese Presidency of the EU, the Council agreed on three...

The Fourth United Nations World Conference on Women in 1995 marked an important step in addressing the gender dimension of poverty. 'Women and Poverty' was identified as the first area of concern of the BPfA. In 2007, under the Portuguese Presidency of the EU, the Council agreed on three...

Can technology and operations enable the world to achieve various United Nation Sustainable Development Goals? I provide my own perspective on this question by focusing on the issue of gender equality through the lens of “women’s economic empowerment”. To do so, I use case examples to...

Can technology and operations enable the world to achieve various United Nation Sustainable Development Goals? I provide my own perspective on this question by focusing on the issue of gender equality through the lens of “women's economic empowerment”, and share some ideas for Operations...