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The Third World debt crisis, the International Monetary Fund and World Bank's adjustment policies have compelled many countries to move towards a contraction of

This book argues that the development process is marked by male bias - ill-founded and unjustified asymmetries that operate in favour of men and against women.

Since the early 1980s Ecuador has experienced a series of events unparalleled in its history. Its “free market” strategies exacerbated the debt crisis, and

More than half of the world's farmers are women. They are the majority of the poor, the uneducated and are the first to suffer from drought and famine. Yet thei

Why do women in most developing countries lag behind men in literacy? Why do women get less schooling than men? This anthology examines the educational decision