Category: Books

Can paid work provide a pathway to women’s empowerment: findings from a survey in Bangladesh (IDS Pathways Working Paper No. 2011/No. 375

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...

‘Between affiliation and autonomy. Navigating pathways of women’s empowerment and gender justice in Bangladesh’ Development and Change Vol. 42 (2): 499-528

Inasmuch as women’s subordinate status is a product of the patriarchal structures of constraint that prevail in specific contexts, pathways of women’s empowerment are likely to be “path dependent.” They will be shaped by...

‘Alternative measures of chronic poverty’ in What works for the poorest? Knowledge, targeting, policies and practices edited by David Hulme, David Lawson, Imran Matin and Karen Moore (Practical Action Publishing)

Poverty reduction has become the central goal of development policies over the last decade but there is a growing realization that the poorest people rarely benefit from poverty reduction programmes. Microfinance programmes can help...

‘Women’s empowerment, development interventions and the management of information flows’ IDS Bulletin Vol. 41 (6): 105-113

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...

‘Social protection in Asia: research findings and policy lessons’ IDS Report (with S. Cook, D. Chopra and P. Ainsworth)

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...

‘Changing the “habits of the heart”: NGOs and the struggle for democratic values in Bangladesh’ Mobilising for democracy: citizen action and the politics of public participation

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...