Measuring Women's Empowerment: An assessment of the Gender-related Development Index and the Gender Empowerment Measure

Journal of Human Development

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 419-435

  Charmes, Jacques ^a   Wieringa, Saskia ^b  

^a LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Gender; Gender Empowerment Measure; Gender related Development Index; Human Development Index; Measurement; Monitoring

Indexed keywords

EID: 29544441608     PISSN: 14699516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1464988032000125773     Document Type: Article

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