Women, the Family, and Policy
Women, the Family, and Policy

Author: Esther Ngan-ling Chow

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 1994-06-07

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 0791499022

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The authors highlight how structural circumstances in countries with various degrees of industrialization are associated with specific policies. The analyses of women's experiences reveal the variety of ways in which private patriarchy in families combines with public patriarchy in economies and states to create a system of domination which subordinates women. The authors detail how gender is constructed under specific political, economic, and cultural circumstances, and seek to understand how state policies with differing sensitivities to women's issues have produced mixed outcomes for women and their families in the process of economic development.

Christianity and Economics in the Post-cold War Era
Christianity and Economics in the Post-cold War Era

Author: Herbert Schlossberg

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9780802807984

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Developed from the second Oxford Conference on Christian Faith and Economics held in Oxford, England, in 1990, this book reproduces the Oxford Declaration itself and eleven critical responses to what is being called the most important evangelical declaration on the subject of Christian faith and economics in decades.

Labour Markets, Poverty, and Development
Labour Markets, Poverty, and Development

Author: Giorgio Barba Navaretti

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 9780198293538

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Recent years have seen a period of adjustment and structural change for most developing countries. The ongoing consequences of the debt crisis in the 1980s caused widespread concern of a serious deterioration in wage and employment conditions, as well as in poverty and income distribution. Although the outlook for developing countries changed for the better during the 1990s, concerns about the labour market have not subsided. This book takes a detailed look at employment trends in developing countries, bringing together a distinguished group of international academics and practitioners.