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Rural development and women: what are the best approaches to communicating information?

01/07/1999

11 pages long

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Rural development and women: what are the best approaches to communicating information?

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The availability of improved agricultural and environmental conservation technologies might suggest that we can relatively easily improve the living conditions of rural farmers. However, the experience of a project in Tanzania shows that men’s and women’s use of technologies are intricately linked with social and cultural factors such as the gender division of labour. This […]

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Skilled craftswomen or cheap labour? craft-based NGO projects as an alternative to female urban migration in northern Thailand

01/07/1999

8 pages long

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Skilled craftswomen or cheap labour? craft-based NGO projects as an alternative to female urban migration in northern Thailand

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Rather than challenging stereotypical perceptions of certain abilities as ‘women’s skills’, NGOs in northern Thailand working with craft producers tend to perpetuate the low values accorded these skills, both in cultural and economic terms. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis. For the full table of contents for this and previous issues […]

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Conflict and compliance: Christianity and the occult in horticultural exporting

01/03/1999

8 pages long

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Conflict and compliance: Christianity and the occult in horticultural exporting

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The introduction of new export crops in the early 1990s upset the customary division of labour between men and women in Meru District, Kenya, and led to conflict over land, labour, and income. Women’s workload increased; their earnings did not. They responded by turning to ‘born-again’ Christianity for support, and by resorting to traditional witchcraft […]

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Development and Rights

01/01/1998

2 documents

192 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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The fiftieth anniversary of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights prompts a re-examination of the links between ‘development’ and the range of economic, social, political, and cultural rights enshrined within it. Chronic poverty is a flagrant denial of what the international community once hailed as the basic rights and fundamental freedoms on which our […]

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African rural labour and the World Bank: An alternative perspective

01/02/1997

13 pages long

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In the context of economic and technological change in the late twentieth century, the World Bank’s World Development Report 1995 combines the themes of labour and the global market, celebrating the triumph of the market in efficient labour-allocation worldwide. The World Bank’s emphasis on boosting Africa’s agricultural export capacity ignores the prevailing hostile conditions which […]

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Sukaynah Salameh director of the Vocational Development Association (VDSA), Lebanon

01/10/1996

4 pages long

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Sukaynah Salameh director of the Vocational Development Association (VDSA), Lebanon

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Sukaynah Salameh is a Palestinian woman living in Lebanon, who recently became a Lebanese citizen. She has been involved in social and development work since 1976, as a founding member of several NGOs, including VDSA. She studied law and arts at the Beirut University College. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis. […]

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Women and changes in the Chilean economy: some questions

01/10/1996

7 pages long

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Women and changes in the Chilean economy: some questions

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Chile has demonstrated sustained and relatively stable economic growth during the last ten years. Women have entered the labour market in ever-increasing numbers, but this article questions the extent to which these new employment opportunities have resulted in an improvement in the quality of women’s lives. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & […]

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Premarital relationships and livelihoods in Ghana

01/10/1996

9 pages long

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Premarital relationships and livelihoods in Ghana

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Despite the image of Ghanaian women as dominant in informal sector activity and successful in business, the research discussed in this article indicates that young women still expect men to act as providers of capital and subsistence expenses, taking on the role associated with a ‘husband’. In return, the women take on aspects of the […]

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Employment and environmental hazard: women workers and strategies of resistance in Northern Thailand

01/10/1996

6 pages long

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Employment and environmental hazard: women workers and strategies of resistance in Northern Thailand

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This article explores women’s experience of employment within the electronics industry’s export processing zones (EPZs) of northern Thailand. Is the preference shown by many employers for women really ‘good for women’? Does the increasing feminisation of labour open up new opportunities for women, or is it simply exploitation? This article is hosted by our co-publisher […]

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Women’s groups and individual antrepreneurs: an Ugandan case study

01/10/1996

7 pages long

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Women’s groups and individual antrepreneurs: an Ugandan case study

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In a study of women’s income-generating groups and individual women entrepreneurs in Uganda, the individual women were found to be more economically successful than the groups. This article argues that the need to maintain relationships, and observe bureaucratic procedures may contribute to the relative ineffectiveness of groups. This finding has important implications for development funders. […]

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