Women Empowerment and Economic Development
综述女性赋权与经济发展之间的双向关系，认为两者相互促进的力度可能不足以形成自我维持的良性循环，需要持续的政策承诺来推动性别平等。
Women empowerment and economic development are closely related: in one direction, development alone can play a major role in driving down inequality between men and women; in the other direction, empowering women may benefit development. Does this imply that pushing just one of these two levers would set a virtuous circle in motion? This paper reviews the literature on both sides of the empowerment—development nexus, and argues that the interrelationships are probably too weak to be self-sustaining, and that continuous policy commitment to equality for its own sake may be needed to bring about equality between men and women.