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Feminist Perspectives Towards Transforming Economic Power: Topic 1 Food Sovereignty August 2011 Author: Pamela Caro / AWID The Feminist Perspectives Towards Transforming Economic Power series shares information, experiences from the ground, and testimonies from diverse groups of women. It provides analysis and builds knowledge on alternative visions and practices of development, with a vision of transformation. "Food Sovereignty" is the the first topic in this series. It presents an analysis of the current debates about food sovereignty from a gender perspective, in which the international and Latin American peasant women movement have played a central role. It explores the challenges and aims to promote debate among gender equality advocates on how to connect with the peasant’s movement vision of food sovereignty and peasant’s rights.
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The Other Financial Crisis: Poor Women, Small Credits, Big Businesses April 2011 Author: Christa Wichterich
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The Other Financial Crisis: Poor Women, Small Credits, Big Businesses 2011 Author: Christa Wichterich India is in the midst of a financial crisis that shows striking similarities to the US subprime crisis, both in its origins and the rescue strategies used. Just as the cheap mortgage granted to low-income households in the USA, the microcredits given to poor women in rural areas worked out as financialisation of everyday live and integration of the women into the global financial market with its return-based logic. This jeopardised the social processes and the very objectives at the heart of the initial non-profit microfinance model. The growth of this sector led to an over-supply of microcredits in villages and in turn to the over-indebtedness of women, the collapse of repayments and a capital shortage of the microfinance institutions. What seems at first sight to be a specifically Indian crisis results in fact from the market rationale of growth, overheating, and crisis.
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Gender differences in employment and why they matter 2011 Author: World Bank Gender differences in access to economic opportunities are frequently debated in relation to gender differences in labor market participation. This chapter looks beyond such participation to focus on productivity and earnings.
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Commercialisation, Commodification and Gender Relations in Post-Harvest Systems for Rice in South As October 2010 Author: Barbara Harriss-White When the output of a product that forms the basis of subsistence and social reproduction – as rice is for Asia – expands, the marketed surplus rises disproportionately to the growth rate of production. This implies that activities that once formed part and parcel of household labour activity (performed by women – even if under the control of men) also become commercialised. Food security depends not only on the market, but also on the social and political structures within which markets are situated. One of these social structures is gender. Two aspects of this gendered process are explored in this essay, the first being ‘productive deprivation’. Using field evidence from south Asia, the impact of technological change is shown to be strongly net labour displacing and strongly biased against female labour. At the same time, poverty ensures the persistence of petty commodity production, where women are either self-employed or ‘unwaged’ family workers. As seen in the case of rice production in West Bengal, growth in production has been accompanied by the displacement of women from the rice mill labour forces in which economies of scale have been pitched against unwaged work in petty production.
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Gender Responsive Development Cooperation July 2010 Author: Annemarie Sancar
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Gender and Value Chain Development May 2010 Author: Danida The overall purpose of this study is to examine which gender issues are important when and where in value chains – based on findings of existing evaluations complemented by other relevant studies. The focus in this report is on development interventions that explicitly or implicitly employ a value chain approach.
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Women in labour markets: Measuring progress and identifying challenges 2010 Author: OIT The report focuses on the relationship of women to labour markets and compares employment outcomes for men and women to the best degree possible, given the latest available labour market indicators from the ILO Key Indicators of the Labour Market. The main findings highlight a continuing gender disparity in terms of both opportunities and quality of employment. There have certainly been areas of improvement particularly in raising female participation but, in general, the circumstances of female employment – the sectors where women work, the types of work they do, the relationship of women to the job, the wages they receive – bring fewer gains to women than are brought to the typical working male.
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Women, Business and the Law 2010 Author: World Bank Measuring Legal Gender Parity for Entrepreneurs and Workers in 128 Economies
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Women in labour markets: Measuring progress and identifying challenges 2010 Author: ILO The report focuses on the relationship of women to labour markets and compares employment outcomes for men and women to the best degree possible, given the latest available labour market indicators from the ILO Key Indicators of the Labour Market. The main findings highlight a continuing gender disparity in terms of both opportunities and quality of employment. There have certainly been areas of improvement particularly in raising female participation but, in general, the circumstances of female employment – the sectors where women work, the types of work they do, the relationship of women to the job, the wages they receive – bring fewer gains to women than are brought to the typical working male.
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