Despite reductions in poverty generally, recent trends in Latin American countries show
processes of both de-feminization and re-feminization of poverty. A rise in the numbers of …

This article focuses on the current trend for investing in women and girls as 'smart
economics', which is a direct descendant of the efficiency approach to women in …

Winner of the 2011 Paul Davidoff award! This is a book about poverty but it does not study
the poor and the powerless; instead it studies those who manage poverty. It sheds light on …

This paper asks if mounting reliance on women and girls to solve world poverty is an
effective means to achieve greater female empowerment and gender equality, or whether …

A core introduction to Sociology that puts global issues at the heart of its discussion. From
recessions and revolutions to social media and migration, this third edition is fully updated to …

This article traces the emergence of a politico-economic project of “transnational business
feminism”(TBF) over the past decade. This project–which is being developed by a coalition …

Drawing on historical debates on gender, poverty, and the 'feminisation of poverty', this
paper reflects on current evidence, methods and analysis of gendered poverty. It focuses on …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to explore links between a revisionist view of the
“feminisation of poverty” in developing countries and women's work and home-based …

Most existing multidimensional poverty measures, such as the global-MPI and the MPI-LA,
use the household as the unit of analysis, which means that the multidimensional poverty …

This article draws on personal involvement in the World Bank's consultation with academic
'stakeholders' for the World Development Report 2012 (WDR 2012) on Gender Equality and …