Women and Adjustment Policies in the Third World
Women and Adjustment Policies in the Third World

Author: Haleh Afshar

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-07-27

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 134911961X

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The Third World debt crisis, the International Monetary Fund and World Bank's adjustment policies have compelled many countries to move towards a contraction of public sector expenditure in favour of market orientated development policies. Women in general and the poorest amongst them in particular have borne a disproportionate burden of the ensuing hardships. This book addresses the shortcomings in the current gender blind analytical frameworks of governments and financial organisations and offers alternative strategies for combating recession and poverty.

Development Crises and Alternative Visions
Development Crises and Alternative Visions

Author: Gita Sen

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-11-05

Total Pages: 121

ISBN-13: 1134156820

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More than half of the world's farmers are women. They are the majority of the poor, the uneducated and are the first to suffer from drought and famine. Yet their subordination is reinforced by well-meaning development policies that perpetuate social inequalities. During the 1975-85 United Nations Decade for the Advancement of Women their position actually worsened. This book analyses three decades of policies towards Third World women. Focusing on global economic and political crises - debt, famine, militarization, fundamentalism - the authors show how women's moves to organize effective strategies for basic survival are central to an understanding of the development process.

Women and Globalisation
Women and Globalisation

Author: Pam Rajput

Publisher: APH Publishing

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 9788170246695

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Contributed articles on the loans provided by the international organizations to developing countries and its consequences on women and the poor.

Male Bias in the Development Process
Male Bias in the Development Process

Author: Diane Elson

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780719042300

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This book argues that the development process is marked by male bias - ill-founded and unjustified asymmetries that operate in favour of men and against women. The contributors include some of the leading writers in the gender and development field - Diane Elson, Delia Davin, Susie Jacobs, Carolyne Dennis, Alison MacEwan Scott and Ruth Pearson. Together they analyze the variety of forms taken by male bias: its foundations and the way it changes over time; and the possibilities of overcoming it. The cases considered cover both urban and rural settings; agriculture, industry and services; self-employment and wage-employment; and Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Women and Adjustment Policies in the Third World
Women and Adjustment Policies in the Third World

Author: Haleh Afshar

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 1992-02-16

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780333537435

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The Third World debt crisis, the International Monetary Fund and World Bank's adjustment policies have compelled many countries to move towards a contraction of public sector expenditure in favour of market orientated development policies. Women in general and the poorest amongst them in particular have borne a disproportionate burden of the ensuing hardships. This book addresses the shortcomings in the current gender blind analytical frameworks of governments and financial organisations and offers alternative strategies for combating recession and poverty.

Women Pay the Price
Women Pay the Price

Author: Gloria T. Emeagwali

Publisher: Africa World Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 9780865434295

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In this scholarly compilation, Third World researchers argue that IMF/World Bank structural adjustment policies have wreaked havoc especially among women

Paying the Price
Paying the Price

Author: Mariarosa Dalla Costa

Publisher:

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13:

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This collection of studies of the negative impact of the debt crisis and structural adjustment presents a new and damning argument against the World Bank and the IMF. They suggest not only that structural adjustment policies have serious consequences for the family and social organization in developing countries, affecting fertility, life expectancy, health, education, the sexual division of labour and land-tenure relations, but that these consequences were foreseen by the architects of the policies. The authors point out that women suffer more than men from structural adjustment, yet it is they who are at the forefront of grassroots mobilization and resistance. Women now represent a particular focus for international institutions whose programmes, in the name of development, are producing ever increasing levels of poverty.

Women and the World Economic Crisis
Women and the World Economic Crisis

Author: Jeanne Vickers

Publisher:

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9780862329754

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Over de invloed van de economische crisis op het leven van vrouwen. Aandacht voor onder meer gezondheid, gezin, arbeid, werkloosheid, analfabetisme en thuislozen.

Gender in Third World Politics
Gender in Third World Politics

Author: Georgina Waylen

Publisher:

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13:

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This book puts forward a gendered analysis of third world politics. It uses a wide definition of the political to examine both 'high politics' and political activity at the grassroots, focussing particularly on women's organizations. It also examines the impact of policy and politics on gender relations and on different groups of women. After a general discussion of the major theoretical questions involved in the study of gender in third world politics, and the nature of the third world and development, the analysis is developed through the indepth study of different political formations. These are colonialism, revolution, authoritarianism, and democracy and democratization and uses examples from much of the third world. Gender in Third World Politics * is the only book to provide comprehensive coverage of gender in third world politics * provides a gendered analysis of both 'high politics' and different women's political activity at the grassroots * weaves together material from a wide range of disciplines such as politics, sociology, history, development studies and women's studies