Reforming the gender-related development index and the gender empowerment measure: Implementing some specific proposals

Feminist Economics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-30

  Klasen, Stephan ^a   Schüler, Dana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gdi; Gem; Gender inequality measures; Undp

Indexed keywords

EID: 79251485947     PISSN: 13545701     EISSN: 14664372     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13545701.2010.541860     Document Type: Article

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