Determinants of empowerment in a capability-based poverty approach: Evidence from the gambia

World Development

Volumn 66, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-15

  Trommlerová, Sofia Karina ^a   Klasen, Stephan ^b   Leßmann, Ortrud ^c  

^a GRADUATE INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c HELMUT SCHMIDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agency; Capability approach; Correction for endogeneity; Empowerment; The Gambia

Indexed keywords

AGE; ECONOMETRICS; ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; EMPOWERMENT; GENDER; HEALTH STATUS; POVERTY; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; YOUNG POPULATION;

GAMBIA;

EID: 84906766057     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.07.008     Document Type: Article

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