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Health and Well-Being
FIGURE 9.3Women’s Empowerment: Measuring the Global Gender Gap
Source:Augusto Lopez-Claros and Saadia Zahidi, “Women’s Empowerment: Measuring the Global Gap.” Geneva: World
Economic Forum, 2005, available at: http://www.weforum.org.