Women empowerment and emancipation / Meltem INCE YENILMEZ -- The effect of women empowerment on national economies : challenges and obstacles women face / Bahar TANER -- How does women's empowerment affect a country's economy? / Sonja /URICIN -- Women empowerment and income inequality during...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Measurement and Analysis of Poverty in Rwanda -- Chapter 3: Measurement and Analysis of Multidimensional Well-being in Russia -- Chapter 4: Vulnerability to Poverty in Ethiopia -- Chapter 5: Persistence of Social Exclusion in Tanzania -- Chapter 6: On...

Originally conceived as small-scale loans allowing impoverished women to invest in informal sector economic opportunities, microfinance programs have grown rapidly across the globe over the past two decades to become the most common development tool used to empower women in low- and...