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African Women Vulnerability Index: Focus on Rural Women

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  • Vanessa S. Tchamyou

    (Yaounde, Cameroon)

  • Samba Diop

    (Alioune Diop University, Bambey, Senegal)

  • Simplice A. Asongu

    (Yaoundé, Cameroon)

  • Joseph Nnanna

    (Abuja, Nigeria)

Abstract

In this paper, we develop a new index labelled the African Women Vulnerability Index (AWVI) with a focus on rural women using Round 7 of the Afrobarometer Survey. The AWVI comprises 59 indicators in six dimensions namely: safety, empowerment, health, education, economic prosperity and digitalisation. Our findings show that: (i) Botswana performs best while women in Guinea and Sudan are the most vulnerable. Indeed, Mauritius appears as a good example in some dimensions such as health and digitalisation. (ii) Except for the dimension of digitalisation, rural women’s vulnerabilities in other dimensions are very close to those at the national level. (iii) National vulnerability trends strongly explain rural women’s vulnerability especially for the economic, empowerment and health dimensions.

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  • Vanessa S. Tchamyou & Samba Diop & Simplice A. Asongu & Joseph Nnanna, 2023. "African Women Vulnerability Index: Focus on Rural Women," Working Papers of the African Governance and Development Institute. 23/003, African Governance and Development Institute..
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    Keywords

    Index creation; gender; rural analysis; Africa;
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    JEL classification:

    • C43 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods: Special Topics - - - Index Numbers and Aggregation
    • O18 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure
    • O55 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Africa

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