Race, Culture, and Identity

Disrupting Orthodoxies in Economic Development — An African Feminist Perspective

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In recent years, women’s economic empowerment (WEE) has been the focus
of perhaps the most intensive spotlight to date within the international
development global arena. The creation of the UN High Level Panel on WEE
in September 2015, in the wings of the UN General Assembly that ushered in
the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), has led to a plethora of policy
dialogue and programming unprecedented since the Beijing Declaration and
Platform for Action.1 Parallel to this, Africa’s overall economic growth over the
last decade has created an interest in the continent from both international
public and private sector players who now also see the promise of large
untapped markets alongside the continent’s ubiquitous natural resources and
fertile agricultural land (Bashir and Amine, 2016). However, with a growing
wealth gap and deepening inequality across the continent (despite a growing
middle class), equitable and inclusive growth remains elusive (Zwane, 2015),
while structural inequalities and patriarchal norms persist.

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Development
Africa
Economic empowerment
Agricultural
Economic development
Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE)
African Feminist
Orthodoxies
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