The SDGs and the empowerment of Bangladeshi women

Main author: Hossain, Naomi
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description This chapter describes Bangladesh’s successes with advancing gender equality in the period of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), locating their origins in elite commitment to including women in the development process, and in the partnerships and aid that built the state and NGO capacity to reach them. The chapter reflects on the lessons of Bangladesh’s innovative and unexpected advances in the light of the new challenges posed by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), notably those of early marriage and the achievement of decent work. The chapter asks whether contemporary conditions suggest that the elite commitment and state capacity that drove progress on the MDGs are up to meeting the more contentious and complex goals of the SDGs.
author_additional Chaturvedi, Sachin
author_additionalStr Chaturvedi, Sachin
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author Hossain, Naomi
author_facet Hossain, Naomi
authorStr Hossain, Naomi
author_letter Hossain, Naomi
title The SDGs and the empowerment of Bangladeshi women
publisher Palgrave Macmillan
publishDate 2020
url https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/40446/