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The SWPER index for women's empowerment in Africa: development and validation of an index based on survey data

BACKGROUND: The Sustainable Development Goals strongly focus on equity. Goal 5 explicitly aims to empower all women and girls, reinforcing the need to have a reliable indicator to track progress. Our objective was to develop a novel women's empowerment indicator from widely available data sourc...

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Autores principales:	Ewerling, Fernanda, Lynch, John W, Victora, Cesar G, van Eerdewijk, Anouka, Tyszler, Marcelo, Barros, Aluisio J D
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Elsevier Ltd 2017
Materias:	Articles
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5554795/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28755895 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(17)30292-9

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