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Stovers,<br>
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A friend sent me a nice definition of "empowerment"
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capture progress towards gender equality, greater
investments are needed. We need to develop new
measures and invest in higher quality data that more
accurately reflects constraints on and expressions of
agency…agency is the ability to make decisions about
one’s own life, and act on them to achieve a desired
outcome, free of violence, retribution or fear. The
ability to make those choices is often called
empowerment…</blockquote>
— JIM KIM - President - World Bank Group, 2014<br
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Doc / Dr TLUD / Prof. Paul S. Anderson, PhD<br
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