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Shifting burdens : gender and agrarian change under neoliberalism

Throughout the 1990s neoliberal reforms promoted agricultural market liberalisation, privatisation and decentralisation in developing countries. This text explores these changes in agicultural policies and broader agrarian change
Print Book, English, 2002
Kumarian Press, Bloomfield, CT, 2002
Aufsatzsammlung
xix, 265 pages ; 24 cm
9781565491434, 1565491432
48588357
Introduction / Shahra Razavi
Gender and the expansion of nontraditional agricultural exports in Uganda / Deborah Kasente [and others]
Land reform and the empowerment of rural women in postapartheid South Africa / Cherryl Walker
"From where have all the flowers come?" women workers in Mexico's nontraditional markets / Kirsten Appendini
"Leaving the rice fields, but not the countryside" gender, livelihoods diversification, and pro-poor growth in rural Vietnam / Naila Kabeer, Tran Thi Van Anh
Impact of microfinance programs on poverty and gender equality: some evidence from Indian ngos / D. Rajasekhar
Making a difference? Gender and participatory development / Andrea Cornwall