This title discusses how to alleviate poverty in Africa, identifying the constraints under which women operate and policies that will aid growth and empower women, recognising the importance of bargaining parameters and the role of assets

Introduction : discourse of microcredit : framing and disciplining the subjects of development / Jude L. Fernando -- The global political economy of microfinance and poverty reduction : locating local "livelihoods" in political analysis / Heloise Weber -- Disciplining the developmental subject :...

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....