IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/liu/liucej/v21y2024i2p285-321.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Does empowerment through corruption reduce gender inequalities? The case of women in sub-Saharan Africa

Author

Listed:
  • J. F. Landry Ngono, F. Martiale Petga

Abstract

The objective of this study is to determine how perception of corruption affects the relationship between women’s empowerment and gender inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa. To do this, it uses two estimators of the generalized method of moments on a sample of 45 countries between 2002 and 2021. It shows that empowerment produces beneficial effects in reducing gender inequalities in countries working to fight corruption. Especially regarding economic empowerment, a government integrity rating of at least 25% is required. This threshold rises to 31% for political empowerment and on average to 32% for social empowerment. These thresholds vary between the different components of each component, but they remain between 25 and 35%.

Suggested Citation

  • J. F. Landry Ngono, F. Martiale Petga, 2024. "Does empowerment through corruption reduce gender inequalities? The case of women in sub-Saharan Africa," European Journal of Comparative Economics, Cattaneo University (LIUC), vol. 21(2), pages 285-321, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:liu:liucej:v:21:y:2024:i:2:p:285-321
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ejce.liuc.it/articles/ejce034.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Empowerment; corruption; gender inequalities;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
    • K0 - Law and Economics - - General

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:liu:liucej:v:21:y:2024:i:2:p:285-321. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Laura Ballestra (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/liuccit.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.