Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/298196 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
AGDI Working Paper No. WP/23/003
Publisher: 
African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI), Yaoundé
Abstract: 
In this paper, we develop a new index labelled the African Women Vulnerability Index (AWVI) with a focus on rural women using Round 7 of the Afrobarometer Survey. The AWVI comprises 59 indicators in six dimensions namely: safety, empowerment, health, education, economic prosperity and digitalisation. Our findings show that: (i) Botswana performs best while women in Guinea and Sudan are the most vulnerable. Indeed, Mauritius appears as a good example in some dimensions such as health and digitalisation. (ii) Except for the dimension of digitalisation, rural women's vulnerabilities in other dimensions are very close to those at the national level. (iii) National vulnerability trends strongly explain rural women's vulnerability especially for the economic, empowerment and health dimensions.
Subjects: 
Index creation
gender
rural analysis
Africa
JEL: 
C43
O18
O55
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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