Work, Female Empowerment and Economic Development

ISBN-13: 9780415437578 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 256 str.

Opis

Discusses how to alleviate poverty in Africa, identifying the constraints under which women operate and policies that will aid growth and empower women, recognizing the importance of bargaining parameters and the role of assets.

Recenzje

"This book follows in the tradition, established by the Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, of regarding issues of gender in general, and the treatment of women in particular, as central to the process of economic development" Vani Borooah (University of Ulster, UK)

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. The Surveys: Countries, Methodology and Poverty Clasifications  3. Time Use and Labour Supply in Rural Households  4. Landlessness, Poverty and Labour Supply in South-western Ethiopia  5. Redefining Gender Roles and Reworking Gender Relations: Female Agricultural Labour in Dry Regions of Andhra Pradesh  6. Gender Relations and Female Labour Supply in Eastern Uganda  7. Female-headed Households in Zimbabwe: A Different Type of Poverty Needing a Different Set of Solutions?  8. Policies and Poverty Alleviation