Implications of Violence against women on the Development Process: A cross country analysis for defining Cause – Effect Relationships and suggesting Institutional Safe guards, for South Asian Network for Economic Research Institute

This research explored how domestic violence against women impede efficiency. ‘Efficiency’ approach has been characterized by development interventions that understand economic development to be hampered by inefficient working relations between men and women. This approach aimed to create conditions in which women’s potential in economic production can be exploited to the fullest. 

It eventually will result in a development intervention that justifies work to end violence against women in terms of the costs of that violence to the public health system, or in terms of the amount of women’s labour lost as a result of violence. The issue of violence against women here has been framed as a concern for development in economic terms. It has been established and recognised as a barrier to women’s full participation in the economic activities. 

The findings stressed on the fact that women’s ‘efficiency’ in economic terms is at stake. It calculated the costs of violence against women to women themselves, to the family and to the communities impacting social capital.