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...
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...
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...
Note prepared for UN Expert Group Meeting On Promoting Social Integration Helsinki, 8 -10th July 2008 This paper is intended as a contribution to the Expert Group deliberations on strategies for building more inclusive...
Sarah Gavron’s recently released film of Monica Ali’s novel Brick Lane will inevitably raise questions among those who have read the novel about the relationship between the two: is it true to the novel?...
Lecture series “Feminist Economics” – lecture by Professor Naila Kabeer on May 31 2007 Impressions from the lecture on May 31, 2007
If there was some way to cast future generations of feminists in the Naila Kabeer mould, the foundations of patriarchy might yet crumble some day. She makes herself heard without being loud. She has...
Economic growth in Asia has been rapid, but inequality is a major factor curtailing the impact of growth on poverty reduction. Which groups have not taken advantage of this growth? What are the obstacles...