Aim of the study The growing attention to social protection within the international development community since the late 1990s reflects various factors: the failure of short-term emergency responses to deal with structural food deficits,...
Presentation at University of Sussex 16th October 2014 Tracking the gender politics of the Millennium Development Goals: From the Millennium Declaration to the post-MDG consultations
The aim of the present study is to provide background information for the delegation of the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality of the European Parliament who will be attending the 58th Session....
Gendering the Social Sciences: a Gender Institute public lecture Date: Wednesday 2 October 2013 Time: 6.30-8pm Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building Speaker: Professor Naila Kabeer Chair: Professor Diane Perrons The Millennium Declaration, signed by over 180 world...
Pathways Policy Paper October 2011 A number of key findings emerged from our research. While our surveys confirmed the overall importance of women’s access to paid work for improvements in different aspects of their...
Viet Nam has undergone a major socio-economic transformation over the past quarter century, rising from one of the poorest countries in the world to a middle income country. Today it continues to develop rapidly,...
This article takes gender inequalities in the distribution of power as its point of departure. Given the widespread evidence of the extent to which women, particularly poor women, have been marginalised in processes by...
This publication reports on research carried out in six Asian countries: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Vietnam and China. It covers a variety of schemes and interventions in these countries, including disaster management lessons from...
The starting point for this report is that inequalities matter for the achievement of the MDGs. Inequalities matter at the macroeconomic level because they slow down the pace at which a given rate of...
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....