Since independence, Senegal has been highly reliant on international markets to meet its food needs, and this tendency …

looks like Western Europe—below-replacement fertility rates, rising age at first marriage and first birth, and high and …, near-universal marriage and childbearing. The other facet of this demographic transformation is nearly unprecedented …

to the ‘early’ industrializing countries of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. It shows that women are far more … greater equality is rooted in educational opportunities; and argues that both educational provision, and women’s entry into …

conducted in Ahmedabad in collaboration with the Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA). The author describes the formal and …

women in South Asian societies. This paper examines this tenet in the context of India, with particular emphasis on possible … policies relating to women’s empowerment against a backdrop of rapid urbanization. …