Emerging Trends in Women's Global Leadership

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CAROL GRAHAM: First of all, I'm not an expert on women's issues at all. So, in that sense, I'm sort of an interesting person to be on the panel. However, I've spent most of my life studying poverty and inequality in Third World countries, particularly in Latin America, but not only, and most recently from the perspectives of the "Economics of Happiness," which is an approach which merges the traditional approaches of economists with approaches taken by psychologists and makes up part of the movement in behavioral economics.

But I think this is a particularly interesting and relevant approach when one thinks about gender issues and, indeed, some of what the literature tells us, and certainly some of my own survey work, the results from this work really shed some light on issues that are very relevant to the role of gender and in particular gender rights in the developing world and possibly even the developed world, but I will keep my remarks to the developing world. And let me just show a couple of slides.

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