Examines the growth-employment-poverty reduction nexus through a gender perspective. In particular, it explores how changes in economic policies affect women's and men's employment and proposes ways of assessing the implications of these changes for poverty and gender equality

The term "living wage" has been used in two separate ways: 1) a wage rate that will enable workers and their families to live above a reasonable poverty threshold; and 2) a somewhat more ambitious standard, a wage rate that will meet a family's basic budgetary needs. This paper attempts to...

The single most important fact about the contemporary pattern of global economic integration is that it is being guided by a predominant commitment to neoliberal economic policies. Considering both the global North and South, this paper examines three basic problems resulting from neoliberal...