Clarifying the boundaries of social protection in the South Asian context This paper provides an overview of social protection strategies in the South Asian context, focusing on Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka...
Recent research in Bangladesh highlights an interesting paradox: impressive development outcomes combined with extremely poor quality of governance. The country’s active development NGO sector has been credited with some of the more positive development achievements. The question that this paper...
” Gender and international migration: globalization, development and governance” by Lourdes Beneria, Carmen Diana Deere and Naila Kabeer This contribution examines the connections between gender and international migration around three themes: globalization, national economic development,...
IDRC Highlight: Exploring how to increase women’s labour market participation 26/01/2012, London, UK, Global Events IDRC and the UK Department of International Development (DFID) convened an expert meeting in January 2012, hosted by the...
http://www.ids.ac.uk/files/dmfile/Wp387.pdf There is considerable debate about the extent to which gender equality and womens’ rights are universal values. This debate has been particularly heated in Afghanistan where the violation of women’s rights by the...
Concerns with women’s empowerment have their roots in grassroots mobilisations across the world and have always had a focus on the material dimensions of women’s subordination. The idea of women’s economic empowerment speaks directly...
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...
This article examines the significance of social relationships in women’s lives and their relevance to processes of women’s empowerment. In Bangladesh, traditional structures limit women’s social interaction to their immediate family and maintain male...
https://www.ids.ac.uk/files/dmfile/Wp375.pdf The debate about the relationship between paid work and women’s position within the family and society is a long standing one. Some argue that women’s integration into the market is the key to...
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,...