Gender Equality in International Aid: What has Norwegian Gender Politics Got to Do With It?Footnote¹

1 The authors are involved in a research project titled “Gender in Poverty Reduction: Critical Explorations of Norwegian Aid Policy on Gender Equality and Women’s Rights,” developed by an interdisciplinary group of scholars based at the University of Bergen and Christian Michelsen Institute.

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