Women and Poverty

Abstract

Strategic Objectives:

A1. Review, adopt and maintain macroeconomic policies and development strategies

that address the needs and efforts of women in poverty
A2. Revise laws and administrative practices to ensure women ís equal rights and access to economic resources

A3. Provide women with access to savings and credit mechanisms and institutions

A4. Develop gender-based methodologies and conduct research to address the feminization of poverty (BPA 1995)