‘The power to choose: Bangladeshi women and labour market decisions in London and Dhaka’ Japanese translation by Dr. Tamaki Endo, Dr. Waka Aoyama and Dr. Jaehyang Han. Cover photos by Safia Azim,...
Organizing Women Workers in the Informal Economy: Beyond the Weapons of the Weak Edited by Naila Kabeer, Ratna Sudarshan Women as a group have often been divided by a number of intersecting inequalities: class,...
The Asian crisis of the late 1990s severely affected some of the most successful economies in the region, placing the issue of social protection high on the regional and international agenda. Subsequently, growth rates...
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,...
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....
The Nordic countries have long been seen as pioneers in promoting gender equality. The book, edited by Naila Kabeer and Agneta Stark with Edda Magnus, brings together scholars from the global South (Argentina, Iran,...
In this book Naila Kabeer explores the gendered dimension of risk, vulnerability, and insecurity and hence the gendered need for social protection. Her emphasis is on the informal economy because that is where the...
This book reflects the implications of a social performance management agenda for the perspective of twelve partners from Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe, who participated in a five-year microfinance action-research programme known as...
People’s understandings of what it means to be a citizen go to the heart of the various meanings of personal and national identity, political and electoral participation, and rights. The contributors to this book...
South Asia has the largest number of child labourers in the world as well as the largest number of children out of school. With contributors from policy makers, academics and activists working in the...