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This book investigates the barriers to women's economic empowerment
in the Global South. Drawing on evidence from a wide range of
countries, the book outlines important lessons and practical
solutions for promoting gender equality. Despite global progress in
closing gender gaps in education and health, women's economic
empowerment has lagged behind, with little evidence that economic
growth promotes gender equality. International Development Research
Centre's (IDRC) Growth and Economic Opportunities for Women (GrOW)
programme was set up to provide policy lessons, insights, and
concrete solutions that could lead to advances in gender equality,
particularly on the role of institutions and macroeconomic growth,
barriers to labour market access for women, and the impact of
women's care responsibilities. This book showcases rigorous and
multi-disciplinary research emerging from this ground-breaking
programme, covering topics such as the school-to-work transition,
child marriage, unpaid domestic work and childcare, labour market
segregation, and the power of social and cultural norms that
prevent women from fully participating in better paid sectors of
the economy. With a range of rich case studies from Burkina Faso,
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Kenya,
Nepal, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, and Uganda, this book is
perfect for students, researchers, practitioners, and policymakers
working on women's economic empowerment and gender equality in the
Global South.
- Comprehensive examination of how labels such as 'The Poor, ' or
'Asylum Seeker' are created and applied and how these labels shape
power relations in development and aid work- Authored by leading
development practitioners and researchers from the Institute of
Development Studies and including international case studies
addressing gender, race, religion, poverty and power in various
contexts- Hands-on recommendations for tackling stigmatizing labels
and methods for creating new, empowering labels and constructive
ways to frame development problemsWhat does it mean to be part of
the mass known as "The Poor"? What visions are conjured up in our
minds when someone is labeled Muslim? And what assumptions do we
make about their needs, desirability, security and disposability?
How do we react individually and as a society? Who develops these
labels, what power do the labels carry and how do such labels
affect how people are treated?This timely book tackles the critical
and controversial issue of how people are labeled and categorized
and how their problems are framed and dealt with. Drawing on vast
international experience and current theory, the authors examine
how labels are constituted and applied by governments and aid
agencies. It also examines how power relations are amplified or set
on collision courses by labeling, and how the labeled view
themselves and often act contrary to their externally applied
labels or, in some cases, accept the labels. Coverage includes
analysis of labels in current development and aid practice in a
number of contexts. Importantly, the authors provide suggestions
for how policy makers and professionals can tackle negative forms
of labeling, including howcounter-labeling might influence key
concerns such as poverty reduction, human rights, race relations,
and security.
Comprising seven edited pieces of detailed empirical work drawn
from recent research, this title reveals the dynamics behind the
movements of poor people in South and South East Asia and Africa.
This book investigates the barriers to women's economic empowerment
in the Global South. Drawing on evidence from a wide range of
countries, the book outlines important lessons and practical
solutions for promoting gender equality. Despite global progress in
closing gender gaps in education and health, women's economic
empowerment has lagged behind, with little evidence that economic
growth promotes gender equality. International Development Research
Centre's (IDRC) Growth and Economic Opportunities for Women (GrOW)
programme was set up to provide policy lessons, insights, and
concrete solutions that could lead to advances in gender equality,
particularly on the role of institutions and macroeconomic growth,
barriers to labour market access for women, and the impact of
women's care responsibilities. This book showcases rigorous and
multi-disciplinary research emerging from this ground-breaking
programme, covering topics such as the school-to-work transition,
child marriage, unpaid domestic work and childcare, labour market
segregation, and the power of social and cultural norms that
prevent women from fully participating in better paid sectors of
the economy. With a range of rich case studies from Burkina Faso,
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Kenya,
Nepal, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, and Uganda, this book is
perfect for students, researchers, practitioners, and policymakers
working on women's economic empowerment and gender equality in the
Global South.
The Financial Crisis and Developing Countries is an invaluable
discussion and analysis of the regional and country specific
impacts of the financial crisis in both emerging markets and
developing countries. Using heterodox and mainstream methodologies,
the book develops a multidisciplinary perspective on the crisis,
showing empirical impacts on the poor and vulnerable. It examines
how the crisis continues to change our concepts of development,
critically discusses mainstream approaches, and analyses (global)
governance responses including of the G20. The contributors
critically assess the measures taken to deal with the crisis, and
reveal that many elements that have led to crisis (inequality,
inappropriate international financial architecture, structural
imbalances) have not been dealt sufficiently, and as a result new
crises will continue to emerge. Exploring a global and
inter-disciplinary view, this timely book provides accessible
information on the impact of the crisis that will prove relevant
for students of development studies and international economics.
Researchers and policymakers including in foreign and economic
affairs, development cooperation, and international institutions
interested in understanding the impact of the global economy will
also find much to learn from this important book. Contributors: F.
Cheru, H. Clemens, A. de Haan, A.M. Fischer, J. Ghosh, S. Gong, D.
Green, K. Jansen, A. Kapoor, R. King, R. Marconi, M. Messkoub, S.M.
Murshed, F.B. Schiphorst, K.A. Siegmann, M. Spoor, P.A.G. van
Bergeijk, R. van der Hoeven, I. van Staveren, R. Vos, B. White
Reclaiming Social Policy re-evaluates the importance of social
policies in the shaping of well-being and combating exclusion, and
enhances critical understanding of how these policies are
constituted in a globalizing world. Written from a practitioner's
perspective, the core concern of the book is the capacity for
policy making required to protect groups from becoming excluded,
promote inclusion, and avoid sharpening of trends towards
marginalization. The book emphasises the context- and
path-dependence of patterns and policies of inclusion and
exclusion, and provides a normative and practical framework for
supporting social policy making.
This book re-evaluates the importance of social policies in shaping
well-being and combating exclusion, and enhances understanding of
how these policies are formed in a globalizing world. It emphasises
the context- and path-dependence of patterns and policies of
inclusion and exclusion, and provides a framework for supporting
social policy making.
Les changements en matiere d'aide internationale et les defis
souleves par les crises alimentaires, financieres et energetiques
exigent un examen critique des conventions actuelles en matiere
d'assistance et d'elaboration de politiques et de forums
decisionnels en cooperation internationale. A la lumiere de la
montee de pouvoirs emergents, une analyse de la maniere dont un
ordre mondial en mutation transforme la nature de la cooperation
pour le developpement s'impose. La promotion d'une croissance
economique equitable et d'une reduction de la pauvrete exige une
nouvelle comprehension de l'aide au developpement et une
gouvernance, transparence, propriete et imputabilite optimales.
L'avenir de la Cooperation Sud-Sud repose sur de nombreux facteurs,
comme l'amelioration des moyens de communication et le partage des
connaissances entre pays partenaires, l'adoption d'une approche
analytique pour definir les biens publics regionaux et mondiaux,
l'identification et l'evaluation des bonnes et des mauvaises
pratiques et la fusion des priorites economiques et sociales. Au
moyen d'etudes de cas, les auteurs proposent des approches
novatrices pour promouvoir la Cooperation Sud-Sud et etablir des
politiques de developpement international efficaces. Ce livre est
publie en anglais. - This book presents novel approaches to further
South South Cooperation (SSC) on a global scale. The evolving aid
architecture and mounting development challenges demand an urgent
and critical review of existing aid modalities, policy-making and
forums for international cooperation. With the rise of emerging
powers, we face an important question: ls the changing global order
transforming the nature of development cooperation? Promoting
equitable broad-based growth in order to alleviate poverty, calls
for a new understanding of the principles of development
assistance, good governance, transparency, ownership, and
accountability. This book is published in English.
The Financial Crisis and Developing Countries is an invaluable
discussion and analysis of the regional and country specific
impacts of the financial crisis in both emerging markets and
developing countries. Using heterodox and mainstream methodologies,
the book develops a multidisciplinary perspective on the crisis,
showing empirical impacts on the poor and vulnerable. It examines
how the crisis continues to change our concepts of development,
critically discusses mainstream approaches, and analyses (global)
governance responses including of the G20. The contributors
critically assess the measures taken to deal with the crisis, and
reveal that many elements that have led to crisis (inequality,
inappropriate international financial architecture, structural
imbalances) have not been dealt sufficiently, and as a result new
crises will continue to emerge. Exploring a global and
inter-disciplinary view, this timely book provides accessible
information on the impact of the crisis that will prove relevant
for students of development studies and international economics.
Researchers and policymakers including in foreign and economic
affairs, development cooperation, and international institutions
interested in understanding the impact of the global economy will
also find much to learn from this important book. Contributors: F.
Cheru, H. Clemens, A. de Haan, A.M. Fischer, J. Ghosh, S. Gong, D.
Green, K. Jansen, A. Kapoor, R. King, R. Marconi, M. Messkoub, S.M.
Murshed, F.B. Schiphorst, K.A. Siegmann, M. Spoor, P.A.G. van
Bergeijk, R. van der Hoeven, I. van Staveren, R. Vos, B. White
Rapid growth in the Chinese economy over the past three decades
poses puzzles and challenges to neo-classical economic theory, as
policies implemented during the reform process were often
unorthodox. Although the Chinese experience has been widely
studied, myths and questions about these reforms remain. To fill in
the knowledge gap, and to inform a process of learning from China's
development successes, this book features a series of case studies
on the policy process of different initiatives, including rural
industrialization, dual-track price reform, migration policy,
village elections and fiscal reform. Uniquely, many of the authors
of the case studies were deeply involved in these reforms, either
through direct policymaking or through providing analytical and
technical support that led to these policy changes. They provide a
first-hand account of how the political processes occurred, how
social and political entrepreneurs shaped the choices and sequences
of various reforms, and how the rigidities and sometimes erroneous
beliefs were overcome.
The heterogeneity of social structures and cultural identities in
many developing countries, together with traditional hierarchies,
rivalries, and deep-seated biases, has perpetuated inequities.
Inclusive States: Social Policy and Structural Inequalities
examines the role of the state and society in addressing structural
inequalities and identifies a set of policy recommendations to
redress them. This book defines structural inequality as a
condition arising from unequal status attributed to a category of
people in relation to others, a relationship perpetuated and
reinforced by unequal relations in roles, functions, decision
rights, and opportunities. Inclusive states are those that direct
policies to address the needs of all, that respect the rights of
citizens to exercise voice and influence on which services are
provided and how they are delivered, and that have an interest in
strengthening the social contract with their citizens. A central
focus of policy remains a concern for equity, both to level the
playing field to encourage social mobility and to ensure equity in
the distributional effects of policy reforms and development
interventions. This book highlights two key challenges for social
policy. First, policy design needs to take into account the
weaknesses of basic state functions in many developing countries,
since these have important ramifications for social policy
outcomes. Second, in most developing countries social structures
marked by historically rooted structural inequalities pose
significant challenges to the provision of services and require a
long-term commitment to address underlying questions and problems.
This book describes some of the challenges found in different
contexts and some of the ways in which these challenges can be and
are being addressed. This book is part of a new series, New
Frontiers in Social Policy, which examines issues and approaches to
extend the boundaries of social policy beyond conventional social
services toward policies and institutions that improve equality of
opportunity and social justice in developing countries. Other
forthcoming titles in the series include Assets, Livelihoods, and
Social Policy, and Institutional Pathways to Equity: Addressing
Inequality Traps."
- Comprehensive examination of how labels such as 'The Poor, ' or
'Asylum Seeker' are created and applied and how these labels shape
power relations in development and aid work- Authored by leading
development practitioners and researchers from the Institute of
Development Studies and including international case studies
addressing gender, race, religion, poverty and power in various
contexts- Hands-on recommendations for tackling stigmatizing labels
and methods for creating new, empowering labels and constructive
ways to frame development problemsWhat does it mean to be part of
the mass known as "The Poor"? What visions are conjured up in our
minds when someone is labeled Muslim? And what assumptions do we
make about their needs, desirability, security and disposability?
How do we react individually and as a society? Who develops these
labels, what power do the labels carry and how do such labels
affect how people are treated?This timely book tackles the critical
and controversial issue of how people are labeled and categorized
and how their problems are framed and dealt with. Drawing on vast
international experience and current theory, the authors examine
how labels are constituted and applied by governments and aid
agencies. It also examines how power relations are amplified or set
on collision courses by labeling, and how the labeled view
themselves and often act contrary to their externally applied
labels or, in some cases, accept the labels. Coverage includes
analysis of labels in current development and aid practice in a
number of contexts. Importantly, the authors provide suggestions
for how policy makers and professionals can tackle negative forms
of labeling, including howcounter-labeling might influence key
concerns such as poverty reduction, human rights, race relations,
and security.
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