Close Encounters of Another Kind: Women and Development Economics - Couverture rigide

Jain, Devaki

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9352807715 ISBN 13 : 9789352807710

Editeur : SAGE YODA Press, 2018

Synopsis

Close Encounters of Another Kind: Women and Development Economics brings together Devaki Jain’s essays which engage with public policy, development economics and women. In the 1970s and 1980s, as a fallout of the First World Conference of Women, held in Mexico in 1975, then the Women’s Decade (1975–85), followed by the Second World Conference in 1985 in Nairobi, governments energized their bureaucracies to address women’s inclusion in development programmes. Thereby began the work of gendering development, and as a result of challenging the existing ideas, projects related to the design of development policies and programmes. However, most of these efforts were couched in the knowledge and experience of the global North since the efforts were largely led by the Northern intellectual community. In this volume therefore, Professor Jain highlights the ways in which the design of public policy has ignored the lived experience of what was being offered in India as development.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Devaki Jain, Honorary Fellow St Anne’s College, Oxford University, is Founder and former Director of the Institute of Social Studies Trust, New Delhi, India. She was previously a lecturer at the University of Delhi, a founding member of Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN), member of the South Commission (chaired by Julius Nyerere), and of the UN eminent persons group concerned with child soldiers. She has an honorary doctorate from the University of Westville in Durban, Republic of South Africa, and has held fellowships at Harvard and Sussex Universities. She has been a member of State Planning boards and many of the Government of India’s special committees related to gender and its inclusion.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: SAGE YODA Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9352807715
• ISBN 13: 9789352807710
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 398
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible