POLI 227 Lecture Notes - Lecture 43: Hypermasculinity, Informal Sector, Natalism
4 Apr 2016
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Jackson c, rescuing gender form the poverty trap, 489-504. New poverty agenda is seen as incorporaing gender within a new broader concept of poverty. Instrumental interest in women as the means of to achieve development objecives such as poverty reducion, which may undermine gender and development gad. Hunington: criique which expressed concern about the implicaions of abandoning he equality argument in favour of an eiciency jusiicaion. Sees women"s poverty as the consequence of underdevelopment rather than of subordinaion, disinguishes this from the eiciency approach to women, seems they have shared assumpions about the cause of an reminders for gender disadvantage. Invesing in women is a major theme in the world bank"s strategy for poverty reducion: labour intensive growth, improved social services, concern for women"s health. Women as actors or agents have their own prioriies. Women using the vehicle of development intervenions, as an income generaing project to capture state commitment.
