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Economic empowerment of women: exploring financial inclusion and economic growth

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dc.contributor.authorAzima Khan
dc.contributor.supervisorBaharom Abdul Hamid
dc.contributor.supervisorAbbas Mirakhor
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-19T01:43:51Z
dc.date.available2022-10-19T01:43:51Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractWomen consist of almost half of the world’s population but are disadvantaged in all human development fields. They face barriers in access to valued resources which include education, health, employment, access and ownership of land, banking and finance. Despite recent advances in important aspects of the lives of girls and women, pervasive challenges remain, most often as a result of widespread constraints which often violate women's basic human rights. These differences matter as they directly affect economic outcomes. We therefore make the economic empowerment of women the focus of this study. Research on women’s economic empowerment can be approached in several ways. We look at two very basic and essential aspects; financial inclusion and economic growth. First, we gain insights into the gender gap in the economic empowerment of women through the financial inclusion lens. Second, this study explores women’s economic empowerment and its relationship with economic growth. We address the first issue in two ways. First, at the micro-level by focusing on a data set of 6,000 individuals from the country of Pakistan. The country represents not only a Muslim majority country but also ranks amongst the lowest in women empowerment indicators. Second, we look at the status of financial inclusion of women on a global level by focusing on data of 140 countries and segregate the data from the World Bank and United Nations on women for 42 OIC member countries and 108 developing countries in order to compare. For the second issue we look at the relationship between economic growth and women’s economic empowerment with the data for OIC countries and developing countries from the same sources with additional indicators on Political Risk from ICRG.en_US
dc.goalsGoal 5
dc.identifier.citationKhan, A. (2021). Economic empowerment of women: exploring financial inclusion and economic growth (Doctoral dissertation). INCEIF, Kuala Lumpur. Retrieved from https://ikr.inceif.org/handle/INCEIF/3659en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://ikr.inceif.org/handle/INCEIF/3659
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherINCEIFen_US
dc.rights2021. INCEIF
dc.sourceSGPS
dc.subjectDeveloping countriesen_US
dc.subjectEconomic growthen_US
dc.subjectFinancial inclusionen_US
dc.subjectOIC member countriesen_US
dc.subjectPakistanen_US
dc.subjectWomen's economic empowermenten_US
dc.titleEconomic empowerment of women: exploring financial inclusion and economic growth
dc.typePhDen_US
dlc.maintopicIslamic economicsen_US
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ikr.goalGoal 5
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ikr.topic.maintopicIslamic economicsen_US
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