19 Women Empowerment and Sustainable Development

2021 ◽  
pp. 179-188
Author(s):  
Liu Na ◽  
Elena B. Zavyalova ◽  
Larisa S. Pichkova ◽  
Evgeniya A. Starikova
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Women Empowerment

scholarly journals Do Egyptian listed companies support SDGs? Evidence from UNCTAD guidance on core indicators disclosures

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 73-81
Author(s):  
Ahmed M. Abdel-Meguid ◽  
Khaled M. Dahawy ◽  
Nermeen F. Shehata
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Women Empowerment ◽  
Reporting Standards ◽  
Regulatory Enforcement ◽  
Political Will ◽  
The Status ◽  
Development Goals

This paper provides an exploratory analysis of the extent of Sustainable Development Goals disclosure (SDGD) by the top 30 Egyptian companies. We use the 33 core indicators of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), which span economic, institutional, social, and environmental areas. Overall, the results suggest that SDGD in Egypt is still gaining traction, as indicated by a relatively low average disclosure score of only 25%, which translates to approximately eight indicators. We also document a variation in SDGD among the four areas, where disclosure addressing economic and institutional indicators is higher than that of social and environmental areas. This variation could be attributed to the differential regulatory and legal intensity. Disclosure is most noticeable for taxes, employment, women empowerment, financial transparency, corporate governance, and energy. We argue that Egypt has the legislative infrastructure and clear political will from the state to support sustainable development. However, there is a need for coordinated awareness efforts to establish a culture of sustainable development among various stakeholders, including businesses. Finally, there should be a stronger conviction regarding the importance of information sharing as well as comprehensive reporting standards and enhanced regulatory enforcement. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper to address the status of SDGD in Egypt. Accordingly, there is a need for future research that analyzes both the determinants of SDGD and its consequences

Artificial Intelligence and SHGs

2020 ◽  
pp. 291-303
Author(s):  
Vinay Kandpal ◽  
Osamah Ibrahim Khalaf
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Financial Services ◽  
Efficient Solution ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Financial Inclusion ◽  
Women Empowerment ◽  
Loan Repayment ◽  
Brick And Mortar

For inclusive growth and sustainable development of SHG and women empowerment, there is a need to provide an environment to access quality services from financial and non-financial agencies. While banks cannot reach all people through a ‘brick and mortar' model, new and advanced banking technology has enabled financial inclusion through branchless banking. By using artificial intelligence in banking, banks have a cost-effective and efficient solution to provide access to services to the financially excluded. Digital technology improves the accessibility and affordability of financial services for the previously unbanked or underbanked individuals and MSMEs. A big data-driven model can also be helpful for psychometric evaluations. Several psychometric tools help evaluate the applicant's answers which aid to capture information that can help to predict loan repayment behavior, comprising applicants' beliefs, performance, attitudes, and integrity.

Women empowerment: A key to sustainable development

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 26
Author(s):  
Meenakshi Lohani ◽  
Loai Aburaida
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Women Empowerment

scholarly journals Does financial inclusion empower women in emerging countries? A panel data analysis

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chandan Kumar Roy ◽  
Banna Banik ◽  
Huang Xiaoling
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Emerging Economies ◽  
Fixed Effects ◽  
Panel Data Analysis ◽  
Estimation Method ◽  
Financial Inclusion ◽  
Gender Development ◽  
Women Empowerment ◽  
And Gender

Abstract Women empowerment is inevitable and a fundamental goal for inclusive growth and sustainable development. The study aims to analyze the effect of financial inclusion on women empowerment using both fixed-effects and panel generalized methods of moments (GMM) estimation techniques covering a panel dataset of 50 emerging economies from 2005 to 2017. We use accessibility to automated teller machine services, availability of bank branches and accessibility to bank assets as three different measures of financial inclusion and gender inequality index, gender development index and political participation of females as the measure of women empowerment. We find evidence that each measure of financial inclusion is associated with lower gender inequality, higher gender development and more opportunities for political involvement of women respectively. Using different econometric estimation method and a board range of inclusion measures confirms the more robust association between financial inclusion and women empowerment. The study, thus, concludes that financial inclusion plays an important role in the welfare of female and girls which would further assist emerging economies to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 5.

scholarly journals Women Empowerment in Agriculture and its Dimensions: A Conceptual Review

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 111-114
Author(s):  
Deepika Sharma ◽  
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Rashmi Chaudhary ◽  
Krishan Kumar ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Food Insecurity ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Time Allocation ◽  
Women Empowerment ◽  
Global Issue ◽  
Conceptual Clarity ◽  
Different Dimensions ◽  
Multidimensional Concept

Women empowerment is a broader term which has been described in a variety of ways. It is a global issue, which has been accelerated in recent decades. The term women empowerment has also received much attention from researchers, government and other stakeholders. It is now widely accepted that gender equality and women empowerment are essential component for achieving development results. The present article is an attempt to develop conceptual clarity of the term women empowerment and its dimensions in agriculture. As per the existing literature it has been reviewed that women empowerment is a complex and multidimensional concept. Different dimensions of women empowerment resulting from various definitions are: input in productive decisions and autonomy in production, ownership of assets and access to and decisions on credit, control over use of income, workload and time allocation and education. It has also been analysed that access to these dimensions and women empowerment might lead toward sustainable development in terms of improved livelihood resulting in reducing food insecurity.

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