No Empowerment without Rights, No Rights without Politics: Gender-equality, MDGs and the post-2015 Development Agenda

Journal of Human Development and Capabilities

Volumn 15, Issue 2-3, 2014, Pages 188-202

  Sen, Gita ^a,b   Mukherjee, Avanti ^c  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT BANGALORE   (India)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Empowerment; Human rights; Keywords: Gender; Poverty

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902660077     PISSN: 19452829     EISSN: 19452837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19452829.2014.884057     Document Type: Article

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