Women’s advancement and consequential gender equality have significant implications for human capital formation, increase in labour productivity, employment creation, poverty reduction, and overall socio-economic and human development. So, inclusive growth and sustainable development would not be possible without women’s empowerment and gender equality. Thus, targeting women’s empowerment is extensively relevant for Asian countries. In this context, this article explored the impact of the gender factors on the economic growth of 30 Asian economies over the period from 1997 to 2015 by using panel autoregressive distributive lag (ARDL) model. It provides the evidence of an overall positive impact of the gender parity index of health, education, employment and democratic representation on the economic growth of Asia in the long run. Therefore, gender equality is an important determinant of economic growth in Asian countries, and hence, should be on board while planning for the empowerment of women.

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妇女地位的提高和性别平等是否促进了经济增长？来自30个亚洲国家的证据

妇女地位的提高和随之而来的性别平等对人力资本形成，劳动生产率的提高，创造就业机会，减少贫困以及整个社会经济和人类发展具有重大影响。因此，没有妇女的权能和性别平等，就不可能实现包容性增长和可持续发展。因此，以赋予妇女权力为目标与亚洲国家广泛相关。在这种情况下，本文使用面板自回归分布滞后（ARDL）模型探讨了性别因素对1997年至2015年期间30个亚洲经济体经济增长的影响。从长远来看，它提供了健康，教育，就业和民主代表性的性别均等指数对亚洲经济增长的总体积极影响的证据。所以，