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28 January 2016
Integrating South African Schools?
Published by: IDS
It is more than 15 years since South African schools have effectively become ‘open’. In the mid-1980s, following the lead of the...
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28 January 2016
Microfinance, Poverty and Social Performance: Overview
Published by: IDS
The nature and extent of the impact of microfinance, particularly on poverty incidence, and the nature of the economic and social...
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28 January 2016
13. Strategies for Poverty Alleviation in India:
Published by: IDS
This article discusses an innovative microfinance programme designed to reach the extremely poor people in remote rural areas in...
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28 January 2016
Dangerous Equations? How Female-headed Households Became the Poorest of the Poor: Causes, Consequences and Cautions
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
The idea that women bear a disproportionate and growing burden of poverty at a global scale, often encapsulated in the concept of a...
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28 January 2016
Within the Edifice of Development: Education of Women in India
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
The realization of the country’s aspirations involves change in the knowledge, skills, interests and values of the people as a...
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28 January 2016
Not Very Poor, Powerless or Pregnant: The African Woman Forgotten by Development
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
For decades now, the development industry has thrived on the stereotypical image of an African woman who is its “target” or...
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28 January 2016
‘Streetwalkers Show the Way’: Refraining the Debate on Trafficking from Sex Workers’ Perspective
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Trafficking of women and children across and within nations is said to have escalated dramatically in the last decade. At the same time,...
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28 January 2016
The Chimera of Success
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
One of the many myths that populate the field of gender and development is one that claims that gender has been so successfully...
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28 January 2016
Women, Work and Empowerment in a Global Era
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
The discussions at the ‘Gender Myths and Feminist Fables’ workshop reflect a contradiction in our thinking about women and work, a...
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28 January 2016
The Rights-based Approach to Development: Potential for Change or More of the Same?
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
The adoption of Rights-based Approaches (RBAs) by the UN and its agencies, many bilateral development agencies and international...
