Close encounters of another kind : women and development economics /
Devaki Jain.
- xxv, 398 pages ; 22 cm
Rs.1095/- TBH86/43
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Chapter 1 Letting the Worm Turn -- Chapter 2 Development Theory and Practice -- Chapter 3 Gender and Poverty in India -- Chapter 4 Healing the Wounds of Development -- Chapter 5 Valuing Work: Time as a Measure -- Chapter 6 Nuancing Globalisation, or Mainstreaming the Downstream, or Reforming Reform -- Chapter 7 Food Battles, or Battling for Food -- Chapter 8 Are We Knowledge-Proof? -- Chapter 9 A View from the South -- Chapter 10 Women, Public Policy and the New World Order -- Chapter 11 Growth, Poverty and Inequality -- Chapter 12 Walking Together -- Chapter 13 Morals in Politics -- Chapter 14 Exploring Economic Inequality -- Chapter 15 The New World Re-order -- Bibliography -- Bibliography of Selected Works by Devaki Jain -- Index
9789352807710 (hbk.)
Feminist economics--Developing countries. Women in development--Developing countries. Economic development--Developing countries.