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    Gender and Development In Brief ‘Gender and Care’ – edition 20

    Emily Esplen / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2009
    In Brief is a six page newsletter that aims to stimulate thinking on a priority gender theme. This edition focuses on gender and care, starting with an overview and recommendations followed by two distinctive case studies highlighting practical responses to key issues.
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    Gender and Care: Supporting Resources Collection

    E. Esplen / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2009
    This Supporting Resources Collection show-cases existing work on gender and care. It presents summaries and links to key texts, tools and case studies which provide further information on the five main questions addressed in the BRIDGE Gender and Care Overview Report: How can we prompt a re-conceptualisation of care as something that is valuable and productive?
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    Gender and Care: Overview Report

    E. Esplen / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2009
    Providing care can be both a source of fulfilment and a terrible burden. For women and girls in particular, their socially prescribed role as carers can undermine their rights and limit their opportunities, capabilities and choices - posing a fundamental obstacle to gender equality and well-being.
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    Gender and Care: Overview Report

    E. Esplen / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2009
    Providing care can be both a source of fulfilment and a terrible burden. For women and girls in particular, their socially prescribed role as carers can undermine their rights and limit their opportunities, capabilities and choices - posing a fundamental obstacle to gender equality and well-being.
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    Looking at social protection through a livelihoods lens

    C. Gorman (ed), S. Devereux / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2006
    This issue of In Focus is a collection of briefing notes that explore and contribute to the thinking and practice of social protection. These briefs help in understanding social protection; building the evidence base; understanding what is happening where; and considering future directions for social protection.
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    Twenty Key Gender Websites In Spanish. An Annotated Bibliography

    P. Brambilla, H. Dixon / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2008
    This annotated bibliography presents a selection of websites on gender and development from organisations and initiatives based in Spanish-speaking countries. It gives a flavour of the richness of feminist debates and gender sensitive work being carried out mainly in Latin America but also in Spain.
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    Microfinance and climate change adaptation

    A. Hammill, R. Matthew, E. McCarter / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2008
    This paper talks about possibilities of using microfinance as a coping strategy or tool for reducing peoples’ vulnerability to climate change. In doing so, the paper identifies possible links between microfinance services and climate adaptation and highlights the opportunities and the risks for reducing vulnerability among the world’s poorest populations.
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    Voices from the South. The impact of the global financial crisis on developing countries

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2008
    The global financial crisis is already beginning to have an impact on the ‘real economy’ in poorer countries around the world. However, the debate in the west about the impact of the crisis has largely ignored its impact on the developing world, and the voices of people from these countries are rarely heard.
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    Trade liberalisation, poverty and livelihoods: understanding the linkages

    N. Kanji, S. Barrientos / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2002
    What are the impacts of trade liberalisation on poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa? Which analytic approaches provide the most comprehensive insights for the development of pro-poor trade policy?
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    Rules, norms and the pursuit of sustainable livelihoods

    C. Johnson / Institute of Development Studies UK, 1997
    Institutional arrangements can either encourage or discourage the pursuit of sustainable livelihoods (SL). The author explores the relationship between resources and capital and examines the nature of property rights and regimes. Critiquing Common Property Resource (CPR) theory he looks at the way in which social exclusion affects the pursuit of sustainable livelihoods.

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