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...
Mobilizing for Democracy is an in-depth study into how ordinary citizens and their organizations mobilize to deepen democracy. Featuring a collection of new empirical case studies from Angola, Bangladesh, Brazil, India, Kenya, Nigeria and...
This chapter discusses civil society, grassroots democracy and service delivery from the perspective of the NGO sector in Bangladesh. Owing to copyright restrictions, only the first 3 pages are attached, together with a link...
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...
Ninth Commonwealth Women’s Affairs Ministers Meeting “Gender Issues in Economic Crisis, Recovery and Beyond: Women as Agents of Transformation” Bridgetown, Barbados, 7-9 June 2010. Session IV: Ministerial Roundtable WAMM(10)(RT2)1(a) GENDER & SOCIAL PROTECTION: LESSONS...
Recent research Bangladesh has come to embody an interesting paradox. On the one hand, it has experienced rising rates of growth, a slow but steady decline in poverty and impressive progress in terms of...
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....
United Nations, New York, 26 October 2009 – Ms. Carolyn Hannan, Division for the Advancement of Women, Department of Economic and Social Affairs; Ms. Naila Kabeer, Institute of Development Studies (United Kingdom); and Mr....