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    The Power to Choose: Bangladeshi Women and Labour Market Decisions in London and Dhaka

    Verso Press, 2000
    In this study the lives of Bangladeshi garment workers are examined to highlight the question of what constitutes 'fair' competition in international trade. While Bangladesh is generally considered a poor, conservative Muslim country, with a long tradition of female seclusion, women here have entered factories to take their place as a prominent first generation labour force.
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    Economy and Culture in Pakistan: Migrants and Cities in Muslim Society

    Palgrave Macmillan, 1991
    Migration within Pakistan, and overseas to the UK or Middle East, has brought about social changes in many parts of Punjab. Long-term male absences have sometimes allowed wives greater decision-making power regarding land, children's education and household finances. Evidence suggests these powers do not revert back to the male upon his return.
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    Gender Differences in Determinants of Temporary Labour Migration in China

    Wiley-Blackwell, 1999
    Data from a 1988 migration survey in Hubei province are used to examine gender differences in the determinants of temporary labour migration from a multi- level perspective. Community level factors are found to play a key role in temporary labour migration. Models omitting community level variables are poor in predicting temporary labour migration.
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    Temporary Labour Migration of Women: Case Studies of Bangladesh and Sri Lanka

    International Organization for Migration, 2000
    Official figures on female labour migration from Bangladesh grossly underestimate its actual magnitude. The government"s lack of willingness to acknowledge the reality of female migration has contributed to its inability to protect the rights of Bangladeshi women migrants. National and international laws pertaining to labour migration have not been properly enforced.
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    Money Matters Three: women and government revenue

    2001
    What support can be given to those advocating for gender-sensitive budget analysis? This is the third of three Money Matters books which are popular versions of the five South African Women's Budget analyses. The books are tools for lobbying and advocacy and are targeted at non-gender specialists who may be second-language English speakers.
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    Money Matters Two: women and the local government budget

    2000
    What support can be given to those advocating for gender-sensitive budget analysis in local government? This is the second of three 'Money Matters' books which are popular versions of the five South African Women's Budget analyses. The books are tools for lobbying and advocacy and are targeted at second- language English speakers with ten years of education.
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    Money Matters [One]: women and the government budget

    1998
    How do you make gender budget research and analysis accessible to non- specialists? What support can be given to those advocating for gender- sensitive budget analysis? This is the first of three Money Matters books which are popular versions of the five South African Women's Budget analyses.
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    Gender Budget Initiatives: Strategies, Concepts and Experiences

    United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2002
    This publication contains papers from a high level international conference 'Strengthening Economic and Financial Governance through Gender Responsive Budgeting' held in Brussels in October 2001.
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    Customs and Excise

    2000
    How have women fared under trade liberalisation as workers, traders and consumers? This paper from the fifth year of the Women's Budget Initiative in South Africa, tackles customs and excise as a new area of gender budget analysis. It argues that South African women suffer from trade liberalisation (i. e.
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    Women and local government

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 1996
    How can municipalities address their financial difficulties yet not overburden the poor, particularly poor women? This paper, one of a collection of four papers from the fifth year of the Women's Budget Initiative in South Africa, stresses that local government must have enough money to deliver what they are meant to deliver.

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