Search

Searching with a thematic focus on

Showing 431-440 of 710 results

Pages

• Document

  76.8% of the Sky: Gender, Poverty and Development in Hong Kong

  2005

  76.8% is the proportion of employed women in Hong Kong whose income was under the poverty line (5000 HKD) in 2003. In spite of the feminization of poverty, the government ignores gender equality in it's poverty alleviation strategy. The only issues tackled which address women's interests are children's poverty within the family, and trans-generational poverty.
• Document

  Gender Analysis Based on a Theoretical Hypothesis on Methods for Mainstreaming Urban Poverty Measurements

  2004

  Mainstream urban poverty measurements make a basic theoretical assumption: 'equal distribution of poverty in the family', or 'equal grading of the consumption of basic living resources in the family'.
• Document

  Social Differentiation and Gender Stratification in the Present Phase of China

  Zhejiang University, 2004

  During the current social transition those with most power are men. Men make up about three-quarters of all those managing, state, society and private enterprises. In the middle levels of society, women and men make up fairly equal proportions of professional and technical people, but men outnumber women in higher level posts, and women predominate at the lower end.
• Document

  Trading Away Our Rights: Women Working in Global Supply Chains

  Oxfam, 2004

  What are the difficulties faced by the predominantly female workforce at the end of global supply chains for fruit, vegetables and clothing which are dominated by powerful multinational corporations? This Oxfam report outlines these difficulties.
• Document

  Labour and Social Issues Relating to Export Processing Zones, Report for discussion in the Tripartite Meeting of Export-Processing Zone-Operating Countries

  International Labour Organization, 1998

  It is now widely understood that women make up the majority of workers in Export Processing Zones (EPZs) - areas dedicated to the mass production of export commodities such as garments and electrical goods in large factories. The labour and social concerns of female workers differ from those of men.
• Document

  Mainstreaming Informal Employment and Gender in Poverty Reduction: A Handbook for Policy-makers and Other Stakeholders

  Commonwealth Secretariat, 2004

  What is the relationship between gender inequality and work in the informal economy? How do we promote good working conditions for poor and vulnerable groups? Street vendors, workers in Export Processing Zones (EPZs) and small farmers are quite visible in the informal economy.
• Document

  Employment, Poverty, and Gender in Ghana

  University of Massachussets, Amherst, 2005

  What are the connections between gender, employment, and poverty in Ghana? This report addresses this question using data from the fourth round of the Ghana Living Standards Survey, administered in 1998/99.
• Document

  Gender Mainstreaming in Development Cooperation Ireland Country Strategy Papers (CSP)

  Development Cooperation Ireland, 2005

  Development assistance is currently undergoing a shift from project-based funding to centralised support for national budgets. These new aid modalities are country-led and based on principles of donor coordination and policy dialogue.
• Document

  Tackling the Causes of Trafficking

  Anti-Trafficking Centre, Serbia, 1990

  How can the causes of trafficking be addressed? The Anti-Trafficking Centre (ATC) in Belgrade, an NGO, works to combat trafficking from Serbia and Montenegro and the region by tackling the causes of trafficking such as gender-based violence, poverty, unemployment and lack of opportunities.
• Document

  The Corner Project - Working with Children of Migrants in Mexico

  Corner Project, 2005

  The Corner Project, started by a North American in Mexico, works in a mountainous area of Mexico where male and female out-migration is significant. Farming has traditionally been the backbone of the local economy.

Pages