Author: Naila Kabeer
‘Scoping study on social protection: evidence on impacts and directions for future research’ Research and Evidence Division, DFID London.
This paper provides an overview of the evidence on the impacts of social protection in developing country contexts with a view to developing a future research agenda on social protection in low income countries....
Launch of the 2009 World Survey of the Role of Women in Development
United Nations, New York, 26 October 2009 – Ms. Carolyn Hannan, Division for the Advancement of Women, Department of Economic and Social Affairs; Ms. Naila Kabeer, Institute of Development Studies (United Kingdom); and Mr....
Money with a mission. Microfinance and poverty reduction Volume 1
This book, authored by James Copestake, Martin Greeley, Susan Johnson, Naila Kabeer and Anton Simanowitz, presents the findings of a five-year action research programme into how far poverty-oriented microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Africa, Asia,...
RIGHTS, RESPONSIBILITIES AND SOCIAL PROTECTION. THE DYNAMICS OF SUPPLY AND DEMAND: AN ISSUES PAPER
This paper seeks to explore social protection from the perspective of social and economic rights. The ‘supply’ of rights within any given context is the responsibility of a number of institutional actors, with...
‘Women’s economic empowerment: key issues and policy options’ SIDA Policy Women’s Economic Empowerment Series (SIDA and Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sweden)
This paper argues strongly that the values that underpin the arguments for women’s empowerment are exactly the kind of values that we might want to help us on our way in the current economic...
‘Imagining the future: children, education and intergeneration al transmission of poverty in urban Bangladesh’ (with S. Mahmud) IDS Bulletin Vol. 40. No. 1
Failure to invest in children’s education is widely recognised as a key mechanism for the intergenerational transmission of poverty. At the same time, rising levels of education among different socioeconomic groups in countries like...
2009 World Survey on the Role of Women in Development Women’s control over economic resources and access to financial resources
Ensuring women’s economic empowerment and access to and control over resources requires an integrated approach to growth and development, focused on gender-responsive employment promotion and informed by the interdependency between economic and social development....
‘Citizenship Narratives in the Absence of Good Governance: Voices of the Working Poor in Bangladesh’ IDS Working Paper 331
This paper explores citizenship and collective action in Bangladesh. It examines the meanings and expressions of citizenship among working poor people, and the extent to which participation in different forms of associational life, such...
‘Paid work, women’s empowerment and gender justice: critical pathways of social change’ RPC Pathways of Women’s Empowerment Working paper No. 3. IDS, Sussex
This paper is intended as a contribution to the agenda-setting activities of the Pathways of Women’s Empowerment RPC. The paper is concerned with Pathways’ theme of empowering work, more specifically with women’s access to...