Women, Employment and Exclusion
Considering various types of finance schemes, this text compares the effectiveness of various approaches in aiding poverty reduction. The provision of credit and other financial services has become increasingly seen as the answer to the problem facing poor people. Microfinance interventions have the capacity to increase incomes, contribute to individual and household security, and change social relations for the better. However, it may not be assumed, argue the authors, that they will do so and it may often be more effective in terms of poverty reduction to combine credit provision with other development activities. The book emphasizes the importance of first studying the local context, and then considering the macro-economic factors which may be operating upon the economy of a particular country. Five extended case studies
Published: 1996
Pages: 72
eBook: 9780855988784
Paperback: 9780855983642
| Editorial | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Caroline Sweetman | |||
| The deregulated global economy: women workers and strategies of resistance | |||
| Angela Hale | |||
| Employment and enviromental hazard: women workers and strategies of resistance in northern Thailand | |||
| Sally Theobald | |||
| Women and changes in the Chilean economy: some questions | |||
| Mary Sue Smiaroski | |||
| Rural brewing, exclusion and development policy-making | |||
| Michael McCall | |||
| Premarital relationships and livelihoods in GhanaAugustine Ankomah | |||
| Beyond 'banking for the poor': credit mechanisms and women's empowerment | |||
| Alana Albee | |||
| Women's groups and individual entrepreneurs: a Ugandan case study | |||
| Helen Pickering, Ellen Kajora, George Katongole, and James Whitworth | |||
| Interview: Lina Abu-Habib talks to Sukaynah Salameh | |||
| Resources | |||
| Report of a conference: World Trade is a women's issue | |||
| Linda Shaw | |||
| Further reading | |||
| Organisations, campaigns, and the trade unions | |||
| Internet sites | |||
| Audiovisual resources. |
Caroline Sweetman was previously Editor of the international journal Gender & Development.
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