Work, Female Empowerment and Economic Development
Published on 14. February 2008
256 pages
978-1-134-07346-7 (ISBN)
Description
Accumulation of assets to enable the diversification of activities has been established as crucial in helping the rural poor escape poverty. The empowerment of women has been identified as a way to overcome inefficiencies in the allocation of resources within the family and so improve agrarian households productivity. However, achieving diversific
Reviews / Votes
"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)More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
4 s/w Abbildungen, 79 s/w Tabellen, 4 s/w Zeichnungen
4 b/w images, 79 tables and 4 line drawings
File size
0,64 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-134-07346-7 (9781134073467)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Sara Horrell | Hazel Johnson | Paul Mosley
Work, Female Empowerment and Economic Development
Book
12/2009
1st Edition
Routledge
€48.00
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Sara Horrell | Hazel Johnson | Paul Mosley
Work, Female Empowerment and Economic Development
Book
02/2008
1st Edition
Routledge
€145.20
Shipment within 15-20 days
Persons
Sara Horrell, Hazel Johnson, Paul Mosley
Content
1. Introduction2. The Surveys: Countries, Methodology and Poverty Clasifications3. Time Use and Labour Supply in Rural Households4. Landlessness, Poverty and Labour Supply in South-western Ethiopia5. Redefining Gender Roles and Reworking Gender Relations: Female Agricultural Labour in Dry Regions of Andhra Pradesh6. Gender Relations and Female Labour Supply in Eastern Uganda7. Female-headed Households in Zimbabwe: A Different Type of Poverty Needing a Different Set of Solutions?8. Policies and Poverty Alleviation
