Close Encounters of Another Kind
Women and Development Economics
1st Edition
Published on 28. February 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
432 pages
978-93-5328-917-1 (ISBN)
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Close Encounters of Another Kind: Women and Development Economics brings together Devaki Jain's essays which engage with public policy, development economics and women. In the 1970s and 1980s, as a fallout of the First World Conference of Women, held in Mexico in 1975, then the Women's Decade (1975-85), followed by the Second World Conference in 1985 in Nairobi, governments energized their bureaucracies to address women's inclusion in development programmes. Thereby began the work of gendering development, and as a result of challenging the existing ideas, projects related to the design of development policies and programmes. However, most of these efforts were couched in the knowledge and experience of the global North since the efforts were largely led by the Northern intellectual community. In this volume therefore, Professor Jain highlights the ways in which the design of public policy has ignored the lived experience of what was being offered in India as development.
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Indian Economist and Writer
Devaki Jain, Honorary Fellow St Anne's College, Oxford University, is Founder and former Director of the Institute of Social Studies Trust, New Delhi, India. She was previously a lecturer at the University of Delhi, a founding member of Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN), member of the South Commission (chaired by Julius Nyerere), and of the UN eminent persons group concerned with child soldiers. She has an honorary doctorate from the University of Westville in Durban, Republic of South Africa, and has held fellowships at Harvard and Sussex Universities. She has been a member of State Planning boards and many of the Government of India's special committees related to gender and its inclusion.
Devaki Jain, Honorary Fellow St Anne's College, Oxford University, is Founder and former Director of the Institute of Social Studies Trust, New Delhi, India. She was previously a lecturer at the University of Delhi, a founding member of Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN), member of the South Commission (chaired by Julius Nyerere), and of the UN eminent persons group concerned with child soldiers. She has an honorary doctorate from the University of Westville in Durban, Republic of South Africa, and has held fellowships at Harvard and Sussex Universities. She has been a member of State Planning boards and many of the Government of India's special committees related to gender and its inclusion.
Content
Acknowledgements
Publisher's Acknowledgements
Introduction: Development Is Not Benign
Letting the Worm Turn: A Comment on Innovative Poverty Alleviation
Development Theory and Practice: Insights Emerging from Women's Experience
Gender and Poverty in India: Comment on a World Bank Country Study
Healing the Wounds of Development
Valuing Work: Time as a Measure
Nuancing Globalisation, or Mainstreaming the Downstream, or Reforming Reform
Food Battles, or Battling for Food
Are We Knowledge-Proof? Development as Waste
A View from the South: A Story of Intersections
Women, Public Policy and the New World Order
Growth, Poverty and Inequality: The Linkages and Relevance of Macro-economic Policies
Walking Together: The Journey of the Non-Aligned Movement and the Women's Movement
Morals in Politics: The Gandhian Touch
Exploring Economic Inequality: From Piketty through Adiga to Gandhi
The New World Re-order: An Opportunity to Build a Feminist Political Economy
Bibliography
Bibliography of Selected Works by Devaki Jain
Index
Publisher's Acknowledgements
Introduction: Development Is Not Benign
Letting the Worm Turn: A Comment on Innovative Poverty Alleviation
Development Theory and Practice: Insights Emerging from Women's Experience
Gender and Poverty in India: Comment on a World Bank Country Study
Healing the Wounds of Development
Valuing Work: Time as a Measure
Nuancing Globalisation, or Mainstreaming the Downstream, or Reforming Reform
Food Battles, or Battling for Food
Are We Knowledge-Proof? Development as Waste
A View from the South: A Story of Intersections
Women, Public Policy and the New World Order
Growth, Poverty and Inequality: The Linkages and Relevance of Macro-economic Policies
Walking Together: The Journey of the Non-Aligned Movement and the Women's Movement
Morals in Politics: The Gandhian Touch
Exploring Economic Inequality: From Piketty through Adiga to Gandhi
The New World Re-order: An Opportunity to Build a Feminist Political Economy
Bibliography
Bibliography of Selected Works by Devaki Jain
Index