The UN Conference of Women, held in Beijing in 1995, provided a forum for the exploration of current feminist topics. This volume presents papers from that conference, discussing in detail issues in gender studies and development, from rural and urban poverty to population and family planning....

1. Introduction -- 2. Development, disequilibrium and state interventionism -- 3. The economic strategies of Nkrumah and his successors -- 4. Domestic economic performance in the 1960s -- 5. External performance : the foreign exchange constraint and its causes -- 6. Planning, saving and economic...