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  Women in Asia: surviving and resisting the crisis

  2010

  Women in the Asian region faced several challenges during the past couple of years. Economically, they were one of the hardest hit during the 2007 global economic financial crisis because of the massive retrenchment in industries that hire mostly women. Disaster after disaster attacked the region caused by climate change that made women and children more vulnerable.
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  Gender perspectives on the global economic crisis

  Make Trade Fair Campaign, Oxfam International, 2010

  The economic crisis continues to affect many women and men living in poverty. But how these effects are felt depends, to a large extent, on their relationships with the people and institutions with whom they interact. These relationships are profoundly different for women and men.
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  The global economic crisis and gender relations: the Greek case

  Association for Women's Rights in Development, 2011

  As the Greek case shows, the economic crises and its attendant “recovery programmes” within the eurozone are hitting both men and women hard, but in gender differentiated ways. They are also causing crises in the largely invisible unpaid “care” economy, where women bear the brunt of the unpaid work burden.
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  Causes and consequences of the world economic crisis on women

  Conference of NGOs with Consultative relationship with the United Nations, 2010

  The current world economic crisis, according to some commentators, is supposed to have originated somewhere in 2007/2008 and does not clearly have a historical link to other similar crises in history. Its origins are obscure, complex, and not visible even to economists, specialists, experts and development practitioners.
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  Brief on the global campaign to engage men as caregiving partners to promote better maternal health and sexual and reproductive health, reduce gender-based violence and promote child development and economic empowerment for women

  Promundo, 2012

  Of all the topics discussed in engaging men in gender equality, the issue of men and caregiving, including men’s involvement in maternal health, remains conspicuously absent and underexplored.
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  Feminist perspectives towards transforming economic power: topic 1 food sovereignty

  Association for Women's Rights in Development, 2011

  This article, written by Chilean feminist researcher Pamela Caro presents key elements of the concept of food sovereignty.
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  EU Donors under Women’s Watch – WIDE Checks up on Gender equality and women’s rights in the aid effectiveness agenda on the road to Busan

  Women in Development Europe, 2011

  This policy brief summarises the most important findings of the mapping study based on women’s organisations’ voices carried out by WIDE on EU donors’ compliance with their ownership and mutual accountability commitments made in the Paris Declaration and Accra Agenda for Action.
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  Searching for new pathways towards achieving gender equity: beyond Boserup and ‘women’s role in economic development’

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2011

  Ester Boserup’s book Women’s role in economic development marked an important step in understanding the position of women in developing economies... [T]his paper first discusses the activities that were promoted by WID, GAD and gender mainstreaming following Boserup’s book.
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  Mainstreaming gender in micro-finance service provision: synthesis paper

  2010

  Micro-finance programmes reach millions of people worldwide, not only giving women and men access to savings and credit, but bringing them together regularly in organised groups.
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  The Impact of the global economic crisis on women and women's human rights across regions

  Association for Women's Rights in Development, 2010

  In the face of the economic downturn, governments across all regions AWID examined have had serious difficulties in generating decent employment and preventing a deepening of poverty. This has been particularly true for women and youths.

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