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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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Journal article

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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Briefing paper

South Africa vs. the Drug Giants: A challenge to affordable medicines

01/02/2001

2 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

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On 5 March 2001, 39 of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies took the South African government to court over the terms of its 1997 Medicines Act. The Act was intended to provide a legal framework within which medicines could be made more affordable in South Africa. The companies’ decision to pursue the legal proceedings initiated […]

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Case study

Conflict’s Children: The human cost of small arms in Kitgum and Kotido, Uganda

01/02/2001

1 documents

52 pages long

Languages: English

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Besides security organs of the Ugandan Government, there are a number of armed groups operating with impunity in Kitgum and Kotido districts. These are the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), Boo-Kec (which means ‘bitter vegetable’), and the Jie and Dodoth warriors. These armed groups principally use AK47s, sourced mainly from Sudan. There is at least one […]

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Briefing note

Cutting the Cost of Global Health

01/02/2001

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

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Each year, 11 million people die from infectious diseases, many of them because they cannot afford basic medicines. Countless millions live with debilitating illnesses for the same reason. According to the World Health Organisation some 2 billion people lack access to basic healthcare – most of these people live in developing countries. There are many […]

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Briefing paper

Patent Injustice: How world trade rules threaten the health of poor people

01/02/2001

2 documents

37 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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This paper shows how new global patent rules, introduced by the World Trade Organisation, will raise the costs of vital medicines, with potentially disastrous implications for poor countries. In brief, these rules require all countries to provide patent protection for a minimum of 20 years for inventions in all fields of technology, including medicines. As […]

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