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Women and Rural Employment: Fighting Poverty by Redefining Gender Roles

Year of publication 2009

Product type Document

Series title ES Policy Briefs Economic and Social Perspectives

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) About three quarters of the world’s poor live in rural areas. Among those, women constitute a particularly vulnerable, yet crucially important group for social and economic development. Investing in rural women is thus not only a moral imperative; it can also be a promising strategy to effectively fight poverty and hunger.

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