This paper begins by reviewing the different meanings given to the concept of “the social” within the development policy discourse over the past half century in order to delineate the domain of “social policy”...
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...
In this book, Naila Kabeer brings together a set of arguments, findings and lesons from the development literature which help to explain why gender equality merits specific attention from policy-makers, practitioners, researchers and other...
Economic liberalization in Bangladesh has led to the emergence of a number of export-oriented industries, of which the manufacture of ready-made garments is the most prominent. The industry currently employs around 1.5 million workers,...
Violent anti-globalization protests in Seattle and Genoa focused attention on the growing resistance to free trade and the world’s market economy.Global Tensionstakes a close look at the challenges posed by the processes of globalization...
This paper argues that the primary value-added of a a social exclusion perspective for development policy lies not so much in the ‘naming’ of a new problem, as it appears to have done in...
Gender is rarely used as a differentiating lens by which to understand more fully the various experiences and ramifications of the social protection agenda. This paper takes as its starting point the overwhelming evidence...
This publication is based on a keynote presentation by Professor Naila Kabeer, from the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex to the first session of UNESCAP’s Committee on Emerging Social Issues, Bangkok, 4 September 2003....
The “wider impacts” of microfinance interventions were identified from the outset of the Imp-Act programme as an explicit concern for a number of partner microfinance organisations(MFOs) as well as of interest to the development community at large. In...
Whilst there is a formal commitment to rights in Bangladesh, spelt out in its constitution, its legal framework and its ratification of various international conventions on rights, the reality for its citizens is one...