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

This paper explores the institutional factors behind the crisis of capital accumulation in South Africa in the 1970s and 1980s. Because of its focus on institutional stability, the paper contributes to the literature on the existence of an apartheid social structure of accumulation in which...

1. The radical potential of human rights -- 2. The human rights framework and economic policy -- 3. What does inequality have to do with human rights? -- 4. A human rights approach to government spending and taxation -- 5. Mobilizing resources to realize rights : debt, aid, and monetary policy...