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The Globalisation of Women’s Economic Empowerment

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This chapter traces the historical and political developments of women’s economic empowerment, its origins as a feminist praxis in the global South and its globalisation as facilitated by international financial and political institutions. It examines the resulting transformations in the meanings and practices of empowerment, against the backdrop of global and local expansion of neoliberalism.

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Michaeli, I. (2021). The Globalisation of Women’s Economic Empowerment. In: Women's Economic Empowerment. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89281-4_2

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