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Gender & Development: Business and Enterprise
Volume 20, Number
1, March 2012
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This issue of Gender &
Development features an innovative and inspiring collection of articles from
researchers, practitioners and activists, on gender aspects of business and
enterprise. |
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Contents
The links below will take you to the abstract on the Oxfam Policy & Practice
website where you can download the article for free.
Editorial
Introduction
to business and enterprise
Caroline Sweetman and Ruth
Pearson
Articles
Women
producers and the benefits of collective forms of enterprise
Elaine Jones, Sally Smith and Carol Wills
Shampoo,
saris and SIM cards: seeking entrepreneurial futures at the bottom of the
pyramid
Catherine Dolan, Mary Johnstone-Louis and Linda Scott
Workers’
rights and corporate accountability – the move towards practical, worker-driven
change for sportswear workers in Indonesia
Daisy Gardener
Women's
entrepreneurship development initiatives in Lebanon: micro-achievements and macro-gaps
Nabil Abdo & Carole Kerbage
The
Markets for Afghan Artisans approach to women's economic empowerment
Kerry Jane Wilson, Barbara Everdene and Floortje Klijn
‘Show
the world to women and they can do it’: Southern Fair Trade Enterprises as
agents of empowerment
Ann Le Mare
Fair
Trade and organic certification in value chains: lessons from a gender analysis
from coffee exporting in Uganda
Deborah Kasente
Beyond
participation: making enterprise development really work for women
Sally King, Hugo Sintes and Maria Alemu
Expanding women's role in Africa's modern off-grid lighting market: enhancing
profitability and improving lives
Carmen Niethammer and Peter Alstone
Resources
Business
and Enterprise Resources List
Compiled by Liz Cooke
Views, events, and debates
Edited by Liz Cooke
Book reviews
Edited by Liz
Cooke
Remittances,
Gender and Development: Albania's Society and Economy in Transition, by Julie
Vulnettari and Russell King
reviewed by Allison J. Petrozziello
Microcredit
and Women's Empowerment: A Case Study of Bangladesh, by Aminul
Faraizi, Taskinur Rahman, and Jim McAllister
reviewed by Iman Bibars
The
Participation Reader, edited by Andrea Cornwall
reviewed by Jo Rowlands
Gender,
Sport and Development in Africa: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Patterns of
Representations and Marginalization, edited by Jimoh Shehu
reviewed by Louise Mansfield
Gendered
Experiences of Genocide: Anfal Survivors in Kurdistan-Iraq, by Choman
Hardi
reviewed by Laura Sjoberg