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This book investigates the barriers to women’s economic empowerment in the Global South. Drawing on evidence from a wide range of countries, the book outlines important lessons and practical solutions for promoting gender equality. Despite global progress in closing gender gaps in education and health, women’s economic empowerment has lagged behind, with little evidence that economic growth promotes gender equality. International Development Research Centre’s (IDRC) Growth and Economic Opportunities for Women (GrOW) programme was set up to provide policy lessons, insights, and concrete solutions that could lead to advances in gender equality, particularly on the role of institutions an...
The Institute of Development Studies (IDS), located in Brighton, England, provides information about its research in globalization. The research agenda of the IDS includes general studies on the nature and course of globalization, studies on financial architecture and the global trading system, and identification of the ways in which trade policy can facilitate or constrain developing country actions.