Work, Female Empowerment and Economic Development

by Sara Horrell (Editor), Hazel Johnson (Editor), Paul Mosley (Editor)

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134073467
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/14/2008
Series:	Routledge Studies in Development Economics
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	737 KB

About the Author

Sara Horrell, Hazel Johnson, Paul Mosley

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

"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)

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