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    Called to Speak: Six Strategies that Encourage Women's Political Activism

    2006
    In recent years interfaith communities have been reinvented to provide a space for women's political activism and leadership.
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    Marriage, Motherhood and Masculinity in the Global Economy: Reconfiguration of Personal and Economic Life

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2007
    How are women and men dealing with the 'feminisation' of the global labour force in the face of the widespread prevalence of male 'breadwinner' ideologies and the apparent threat to male authority represented by women's earnings?
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    Webpage: Young women in the new world of work: good jobs for our futures

    2005
    Because of the increasingly global nature of manufacture and trade and the restructuring of national economies, the work undertaken by young women today is decidedly different from that of the previous generation. Young women work as wage earners in factories, as salaried professionals in offices, as part-time workers in the formal economy, and selling goods and services in the informal economy.
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    Fair and Unfair Competition: the EU-China Trade Race and its Gender Implications

    2007
    To what extent has China's rapid transformation from a state-led to a market-oriented economy been achieved at the price of a growing gender gap in wages and promotional opportunities? This paper explores the gender implications of the Chinese trade race and the European Union's (EU) push for further rapid trade liberalisation.
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    "Money Can't Buy Me Love": Re-evaluating Gender, Credit and Empowerment in Rural Bangladesh

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 1998
    Lending programmes for women have attracted a growing following in international development circles because they appear to hold out the promise of combining poverty reduction objectives with the goal of empowering women.
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    Gender Equality as Smart Economics: A World Bank Group Action Plan (Fiscal Years 2007-10)

    World Bank, 2006
    To promote economic development and attain the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) the global community must renew its attention to women's economic empowerment and increase investments in women.
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    Gender Equality in Australia's Aid Program - Why and How

    Australian Agency for International Development, 2007
    The employment of women has done more to encourage global growth than increases in capital investment and productivity improvements. Advancing gender equality is essential to reducing poverty and increasing the effectiveness of aid and is a critical development goal in its own right. This policy describes what AusAID plans to do to advance gender equality in its aid programme.
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    Transcending boundaries to improve the food security of HIV-affected households in rural Uganda: a case study

    Population Council, USA, 2007
    Realising food security for all is a complex task that requires attention to agricultural, nutritional, technological, and gender issues. This case study describes the experience of Partners for Food Security (PAFOSE) in Tororo, Uganda, a multi-organisation partnership aimed at better integrating district level organisations to identify and promote ways to improve food security.
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    The Women Empowerment Approach: a Methodological Guide

    Commission on Women and Development, Brussels, 2007
    This dynamic empowerment methodology creates specific yet flexible indicators for development programming in local contexts. First of all it sets out the theoretical foundations that underpin the concept of empowerment, as conceived by women's movements from the South and key thinkers on the issue.
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    All in Diary

    2007
    The 'All In Diary' is a practical tool for field-based humanitarian workers. It aims to improve the quality and appropriateness of relief work through: increasing awareness of good humanitarian practice; providing easy and timely access to relevant information and resources; and facilitating organisational learning and programme continuity.

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