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This book, commissioned by the Ford Foundation, presents an overview of issues related to social protection in Asia. It assesses the challenges of vulnerability and exclusion facing poor and disadvantaged groups in the region and the new forms of vulnerability that are emerging. It argues that the provision of social protection should be seen as a core issue of development and requires urgent combined responses by the governments, society and the organizations ...
The twin issues of child labour and children’s rights to education have become a matter of international concern while gaining prominence in national developmental efforts. The United Nations convention on the rights of the child, which has a higher rate of ratification by the nations of the world than any other UN convention, signals a new global awareness of the importance of this problem. Within the South Asian context, the issue of child ...
In this path-breaking study, social economist Naila Kabeer examines the lives of Bangladeshi garment workers to shed light on the question of what constitutes ‘fair’ competition in international trade. While Bangladesh is generally considered a poor, conservative Muslim country, with a long tradition of female seclusion, women here have entered factories to take their place as a prominent, first generation, industrial labour force. In Britain, on the other ...
"The absence of gender awareness in policy and planning in the past has given rise to a variety of efficiency, welfare and equity costs. This book develops an analytical framework and a set of tools which can assist planners, as well as trainers, to ensure that gender is systematically integrated into different aspects of their work. It offers an inventory of the kinds of assumptions which lead to gender-blind policy, and assesses integrationist and ...
