Dear Vedamani,  this is a complex but exciting question to me as I was deeply involved to develop and measure human empowerment index in Nepal HDR  2004: Empowerment  and Poverty Reduction as coauthor ( refer to this report in my publications) at a time when country was confronted with violent conflict crisis. It  was cited in the UNDP global HDR 2010 as  a pioneering contribution towards measuring empowerment in its three broad dimensions ( social ,economic and political) and how it compares with HDI as a powerful tool to understand the implications  of mismatch between these three components.

Now coming to your question, there is no  well established  evidence on this partly due to limited research both on its measurement and its temporal analysis.  Generally empowerment in one dimension can play a catalytic role in bringing about change in other dimensions depending on the context and stage of development. However evidence show that empowerment promoting development intervention within a particular dimension dos not automatically lead to empowerment in other dimensions implying that an integrated approach is required to address the sustainable empowerment - a situation where people are empowerment socially economically and politically.  For example, as the Nepal case showed- a high social and political empowerment amidst a low economic empowerment makes empowerment unsustainable leading to dis enchantment and hence conflict in various forms.

thank you sir for sharing your findings through the research. I feel  political empowerment of women would eventually help her to think in terms of economic empowerment.