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Women's Movements and Economic Power: Connecting the local and the global

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Lisa VeneKlasen and Alia Khan of Just Associates present first a contextual analysis of the forces and actors shaping the reality of women's lives today. They outline the importance of changing hearts and minds with time-tested strategies and new forms of organizing that can fuel development of and support for alternative economic arrangements that respect the rights, dignity, and interconnectivity of people and the planet.

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Notes

  1. This article adapts and updates an article originally written in 2003, and thus some of the references date back nearly ten years. They have been retained because it is always surprising how relevant seemingly old thinking is to something that is considered a new problem.

  2. Term coined by Matthew Bishop to describe billionaire philanthropists, such as Microsoft founder Bill Gates Jr, who are drawing on business models and market philosophies to guide their charitable giving.

  3. Cornwall, Andrea and John Gaventa (2001), Power, Knowledge and Political Spaces in the Framing of Poverty Policy, IDS WP 143; and Gaventa, John (2006), ‘Finding the Spaces for Change: A power analysis’, in Exploring Power for Change, IDS Bulletin 37.6, Brighton, IDS.

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  • Bhargava, Deepak (2003) ‘Speech to the Ford Foundation’, Executive Director, Center for Community Change, Washington, DC.

  • Finnegan, William (2003) ‘The Economic of Empire: Notes on the Washington Consensus’, Harpers Magazine, May.

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Argues that women's economic and human rights must be defended on both the local and global levels

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VeneKlasen, L., Khan, A. Women's Movements and Economic Power: Connecting the local and the global. Development 55, 352–357 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1057/dev.2012.45

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