Composite paper: Vision for a Better World: from economic crisis to equality
This paper was presented by Diane Elson, Devaki Jain and Nafis Sadik at the side event on “Vision for a Better World: from economic crisis to equality, co-organized by the Governments of Canada and Nicaragua, IDRC and UNDP on Wednesday 3 March at the United Nations in New York. The following all contributed to the paper with excellent inputs: Diane Elson, Devaki Jain, Stephanie Seguino, Lourdes Beneria, Naoko Otobe, Lanyan Chen, Marta Nunez Sarmiento, Itza Castaneda and Sarah Gammage, Jael Silliman, Hiroko Hara, Hope Chigudu, Patricia McFadden, Renana Jhabvala, Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Solita Collas Monsod and Yassine Fall.
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Literature reviews
Shubha Chacko
» Taking Stock to Move Forward
A selective literature review (January 2007)
Devaki Jain's Views
NAM Summit in Egypt - An opportunity to deal with women affected by the current crisis
IS the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) relevant today?
What We Women Want
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Economic Crisis & Women
Decongesting Economic Power
Missing Women
Engendering Econimic Policy - Boston 2009
Views on Crisis
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Gender Equality and the Economic Crisis Seminar
Impact of Economic Crisis on Women
Tracking impact of financial crisis on women
Panel Discussion on the ocassion of the International Women's day - 05/03/2009
Devaki Jain's talk at the CSW - 04/03/2009
Talk by Radhika Coomaraswamy SRSG at the University of Michigan- 05/03/2009
The Global Economic Crisis, Its Gender Implication and Policy Responses
Statement by Navanethem Pillay
Papers from networkers, supporters and friends
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Gender and globalization: a macroeconomic perspective
Working Paper No. 19, Policy Integration Department,
World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization, International Labour Office, Geneva May 2004, 65 pages
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Nilüfer Çagatay, Diane Elson, and Caren Grown
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Diane Elson
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Lourdes Arizpe
Conviviability : The role of civil society in culture and development
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Renana Jhabvala, Shalini Sinha
Liberalisation and the Woman Worker
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Hope Chigudu
The joys, hurts and traumas of the women's movement
September 2004, 4 pages
Lourdes Beneria
Shifting the Risk: New Employment Patterns, Informalization, and Women's Work
(International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, Vol. 15, No. 1, September 2001, 27 pages
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Lourdes Beneria and Maria S. Floro
Labor Market Informalization, Gender And Social Protection: Reflections On Poor Urban Households In Bolivia, Ecuador And Thailand
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Maxine Molyneux and Shahra Razavi
Gender Justice, Development and Rights
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Kavita Nandini Ramdas
Nothing Short of a Revolution
Summer 2006, 9 pages
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Yassine Fall
Promoting sustainable human development rights for women in Africa
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Diane Elson
For an Emancipatory Socio-Economics
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7-8 September 2001, Cape Town, South Africa, 19 pages
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Marta Núñez Sarmiento
Gender Studies In Cuba And Their Methodological Approaches (1974-2001)
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Sylvia Borren
The future of feminist proposals in the context of globalization
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Radhika Coomaraswamy
Non-violence: An article of faith
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A Question Of Honour : Women, Ethnicity And Armed Conflict
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Amina Mama
Challenging Subjects: Gender and Power in the African Context
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Stephanie Seguino and Caren Grown
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J. Ann Tickner
On The Frontlines Or Sidelines Of Knowledge And Power?
Feminist Practices Of Responsible Scholarship
Presidential address prepared for delivery at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, San Diego, California, March 23, 2006. 15 pages
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Patricia McFadden
Issues of Gender and Development from an African Feminist Perspective
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Amrita Basu
Transnational Feminism Revisited
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State repression and the struggles for memory
2003
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Amartya Sen
Our Global Civilization
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Feminist knowledge politics in situated zones
A different history of knowledge construction
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Vasuki Nesiah
The Ground Beneath Her Feet: "Third World" Feminisms
Journal of International Women's Studies May 2003, 9 pages
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