The Gendered Impacts of Liberalization

In the last two decades public policies have reflected a drive for accelerated global economic integration ('globalization'), associated with greater economic liberalization. The outcomes have been largely disappointing, even in the estimate of their designers. Rural livelihoods have become more insecure, and the expected growth has rarely materialized. Insecurity is also etched into the growth of informal economies across the world. Yet the economic policy agenda that has been so adverse to many people around the world has also provided new opportunities to some social groups, including some low-income women. In response to widespread discontent with the liberalization agenda, more attention is now being given to social policies and governance issues, viewed as necessary if globalization is to be 'tamed' and 'embedded'.The contributors to this volume address key issues and questions such as whether states have the capacity to remedy the social distress unleashed by liberalization in the absence of any major revision of their macroeconomic policies and whether the proposed social policy reforms can redress gender-based inequalities in access to resources and power.

ISBN 0415956501   Volumes 1 ISBN13 9780415956505 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 657 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd   Published in London Imprint Routledge   Series ISSN 06 Format Hardback   Series title Routledge/UNRISD Research in Gender and Development Publication date 01 Dec 2007   Height (mm) 229 Library of Congress 2008029197   Width (mm) 152 DEWEY 338.9   Spine width (mm) 26 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly Pages 390

		List of Figures
		List of Boxes
		List of Tables
1		The Gendered Impacts of Liberalization: Towards "Embedded Liberalism"? by Shahra Razavi		1
Pt. I		Rural Livelihoods under Liberalization
2		The Gendered Impacts of Liberalization Policies on African Agricultural Economies And Rural Livelihoods by Ann Whitehead		37
3		Gender Inequality and Agrarian Change in Liberalizing India by Cecile Jackson and Nitya Rao		63
4		The Feminization of Agriculture?: The Impact of Economic Restructuring in Rural Latin America by Carmen Diana Deere		99
Pt. II		Informalization and Feminization of Labour
5		Informalization, the Informal Economy and Urban Women's Livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa since the 1990s by Dzodzi Tsikata		131
6		Informalization and Women's Workforce Participation: A Consideration of Recent Trends in Asia by Jayati Ghosh		163
7		Informalization of Labour Markets: Is Formalization The Answer? by Martha Alter Chen		191
8		Women's Migration, Social Reproduction and Care by Nicola Yeates		219
Pt. III		Social Policy and the Search for Security
9		Labour Reform and Livelihood Insecurity in China by Ching Kwan Lee		247
10		Girls, Mothers and Poverty Reduction in Mexico: Evaluating Progresa-Oportunidades by Agustin Escobar Latapi and Mercedes Gonzalez De La Rocha		267
11		Gender, Citizenship and New Approaches to Poverty Relief: Conditional Cash Transfer Programmes in Argentina by Constanza Tabbush		290
12		Women in India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme by Smita Gupta		327
		Contributors		357
		Index		363

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