(with Tran Thi Van Anh) UNDP VIET NAM POLICY DIALOGUE PAPER 2006/2 This paper is concerned with the gender and poverty implications of globalisation in the context of Viet Nam. There is a growing literature...
This article discusses the third Millennium Development Goal (MDG), on gender equality and women’s empowerment. It explores the concept of women’s empowerment and highlights ways in which the indicators associated with this Goal –...
Gender roles in Viet Nam are heavily influenced by the country’s Confucian past, agrarian social structures, the country’s experience of war and socialist orientation. The transition to the market and increasing interaction with the world outside...
Is microfinance a ‘magic bullet’ for women’s empowerment? This article published in the Economic and Political Weekly, India, examines the empirical evidence of the impact of microfinance on poverty reduction and the empowerment of...
Bangladesh has achieved remarkable success in expanding primary education, especially for girls, despite continuing prevalence of widespread poverty and social devaluation of women and girls. This paper argues that underlining this success is a...
Female employment in global production is significant in certain sectors of manufacture andagriculture. There has not only been a ‘feminization’of the labor force, but also a change in the gender dimension of global employment. Women’s...
Naila Kabeer is responding to three openDemocracy articles: Anita Roddick, “If shirts could speak and ‘we the people’ would listen” (April 2004) Farida Khan, “Getting real about globalisation in Bangladesh” (April 2004) National Labor...
Anita Roddick writes on openDemocracy with passionate anger about the conditions of women workers in the export garment sector based on testimonies of workers she met on her visit to Bangladesh. Her account is...
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”...
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,...