The paper below highlights rights-based approaches to social protection. According to this conceptualisation, all people have the right to a minimum income due to their citizenship rights, and access to enough resources to allow...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
This paper challenges the idea that a “social clause” to enforce global labor standards through international trade agreements serves the interests of women export workers in poor countries. Drawing on fieldwork in Bangladesh and...
This paper proposes a framework for how empowerment can be conceptually understood and operationally explored. It makes recommendations for forthcoming areas of work within the POVNET Work Programme on empowering poor women and men...