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The economic ramification of equating women empowerment to feminism in Africa

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There is quantum empirical evidence and numerous literature that correlate women empowerment to macroeconomic growth, which further make a strong correlation of empowerment of women to feminism agenda. This has led to the rise of gender democracy and feminism in the past two decades up to date. However this development of women with high educational status driven under feminism is failing to correlate to any meaningful macroeconomic growth in Africa as proposed, which this paper phenomenological seeks to prove the lack of correlation between feminism and women empowerment, hence leading to low or no effect in macroeconomic growth in Africa economic ecosystem

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  • Senzu, Emmanuel Tweneboah, 2017. "The economic ramification of equating women empowerment to feminism in Africa," MPRA Paper 76767, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised Feb 2017.
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    1. Eliza Sharma & Subhankar Das, 2021. "Integrated model for women empowerment in rural India," Journal of International Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 33(3), pages 594-611, April.

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    Keywords

    women empowerment; feminism; macroeconomic development; Africa economic ecosystem;
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    JEL classification:

    • E22 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Investment; Capital; Intangible Capital; Capacity
    • E26 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Informal Economy; Underground Economy
    • O1 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development
    • O11 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
    • P0 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - General

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