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1. Global Variations in the Political and Social Economy of Care

   Worlds Apart

   Edited by Shahra Razavi, Silke Staab

   Series: Routledge/UNRISD Research in Gender and Development

   Care work, both paid and unpaid, contributes to well-being, social development and economic growth. But the costs of providing care are unequally borne across gender and social class. Feminist scholarship on the gendered construction of welfare provisioning and welfare regimes has produced a...

   Published April 24th 2012 by Routledge
2. The Gendered Impacts of Liberalization

   Towards "Embedded Liberalism"?

   Edited by Shahra Razavi

   Series: Routledge/UNRISD Research in Gender and Development

   In the last two decades public policies have reflected a drive for accelerated global economic integration ("globalization"), associated with greater economic liberalization. The outcomes have been largely disappointing, even in the estimate of their designers. Rural livelihoods have become more...

   Published August 8th 2011 by Routledge