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Subject(s)

• Rural women—Employment—Developing countries [Browse]
• Sexual division of labor—Developing countries [Browse]
• Sex discrimination in employment—Developing countries [Browse]
• Poverty—Developing countries [Browse]

Related name

• Johnson, Hazel [Browse]
• Mosley, Paul [Browse]

Series

• Routledge Studies in Development Economics [More in this series]
• Routledge Studies in Development Economics ; v.10 [More in this series]

Summary note

Accumulation of assets to enable the diversification of activities has been established as crucial in helping the rural poor escape poverty. The empowerment of women has been identified as a way to overcome inefficiencies in the allocation of resources within the family and so improve agrarian households' productivity. However, achieving diversification is not necessarily empowering for women and some initiatives may worsen their position.This book uses the information collected in original household surveys conducted in rural areas in four countries to investigate the links b

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Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language note

English

Contents

• Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Glossary; 1 Introduction; 2 The surveys: Countries, methodology and poverty classifications; 3 Time use and labour supply in rural households; 4 Landlessness, poverty and labour markets in south-western Ethiopia; 5 Redefining gender roles and reworking gender relations: Female agricultural labour in dry regions of Andhra Pradesh; 6 Gender relations and female labour supply in East Uganda; 7 Female-headed households in Zimbabwe: A different type of poverty needing a different set of solutions?
• 8 Policies and poverty alleviationBibliography; Index

ISBN

• 1-134-07346-1
• 1-134-07347-X
• 0-429-24062-7
• 1-281-19737-8
• 9786611197377
• 0-203-93126-2

OCLC

• 463169506
• 1000441318

Doi

• 10.4324/9780203931264

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