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Institutional innovations for urban infrastructural development: the Indian scenario

01/05/2001

16 pages long

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Empowering urban local bodies in India to take up development responsibilities by using financial intermediaries to tap capital markets has serious implications for the pattern of urban development and organisation of space within cities. The policy of liberating the local bodies from government regulatory and legislative controls may oblige the former to come under the […]

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Institutionalising the concept of environmental planning and management (EPM): successes and challenges in Dar es Salaam

01/05/2001

18 pages long

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With reference to Dar es Salaam, this paper examines experience to date with the concept of urban environmental planning and management (EPM), an approach promoted by the UN agencies concerned with human settlements (UNCHS) and environment (UNEP) to enhance the capacity of local governments to manage rapid urban growth and development in partnership with key […]

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Pathways to empowerment? Reflections on microfinance and transformation in gender relations in South Asia

01/03/2001

11 pages long

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Pathways to empowerment? Reflections on microfinance and transformation in gender relations in South Asia

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This paper reflects on the strengths and weaknesses of approaches taken by three NGOs in Bangladesh and one NGO based in Bihar in India. All these NGOs consider the provision of microfinance to women to be a major strategy for empowering women. Our reflections in this article draw on a review of the literature on […]

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More and More Technology, Women have to go home’: changing skill demands in manufacturing and Caribbean women’s access to training

01/03/2001

12 pages long

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More and More Technology, Women have to go home’: changing skill demands in manufacturing and Caribbean women’s access to training

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Women in the Caribbean region have a history of working in paid employment as well as participating in unpaid work. This article focuses on case studies from Barbados, St Lucia, and Trinidad, where, since the 1970s, many women have been employed in export-processing. In the factories, stereotypes about women’s ‘natural’ abilities have been used to […]

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Conceptualising women’s empowerment in societies in Cameroon: how does money fit in?

01/03/2001

8 pages long

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Conceptualising women’s empowerment in societies in Cameroon: how does money fit in?

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Money is an essential element in household livelihoods, and those who control it have considerable power. However, development projects seeking to alleviate household-level poverty and promote economic growth often speak of the ’empowerment’ of women in relation to promoting women’s access to credit or income-generation. What is the relationship between empowerment and money? Access to […]

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Rural women earning income in Indonesian factories: the impact on gender relations

01/03/2001

7 pages long

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Rural women earning income in Indonesian factories: the impact on gender relations

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In 1997 and 1998, the international economic crisis widely known as the ‘Asian crisis’ caused massive inflation and currency devaluation in Indonesia. This paper highlights the effects of the economic crisis on rural Indonesian women and their families. After the crisis, young women who were employed in factories began to contribute a significantly greater amount […]

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Just another job? paying for domestic work

01/03/2001

9 pages long

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Just another job? paying for domestic work

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Paid domestic work is a feature of households all over the world, from Ecuador to Swaziland, from Spain to the Ivory Coast. In many countries, it probably constitutes the single largest female employment sector (though its invisibility can make this difficult to document). It is work that is predominantly performed by women, and is usually […]

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Mama cash: investing in the future of women

01/03/2001

7 pages long

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Mama cash: investing in the future of women

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Mama Cash is an independent organisation that is committed to changing and improving the position of women, through providing both financial and moral support to women’s groups and entrepreneurs. Although Mama Cash is relatively small, its feminist vision is broad and worldwide. It aims to support innovative projects that mainstream organisations avoid, and so enable […]

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An income of one’s own: a radical vision of welfare policies in Europe and beyond

01/03/2001

8 pages long

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An income of one’s own: a radical vision of welfare policies in Europe and beyond

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In this article, I discuss a radical proposal to combat poverty and unemployment: the establishment of a state-funded ‘basic income’ for every citizen. This would be independent of sex, age, need, family responsibilities, or employment status. Here, I outline the basic income proposal, and the debates in the countries where it is currently being discussed. […]

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Money that makes a change: community currencies, North and South

01/03/2001

10 pages long

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Money that makes a change: community currencies, North and South

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Some communities are coming up with an abundance of creative alternatives to conventional money, in the form of local money systems and complementary currencies, based on trust, time, and the wealth of energy and skills in communities. This is a form of ‘money’ that makes a change, and that offers new opportunities for sustainable development, […]

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