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Naila Kabeer
Researcher at London School of Economics and Political Science
Publications - 207
Citations - 18173
Naila Kabeer is an academic researcher from London School of Economics and Political Science. The author has contributed to research in topics: Poverty & Empowerment. The author has an hindex of 54, co-authored 205 publications receiving 16511 citations. Previous affiliations of Naila Kabeer include SOAS, University of London & Philippine Institute for Development Studies.
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Resources, Agency, Achievements: Reflections on the Measurement of Women's Empowerment
TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate the measurement of women empowerment in the context of three interrelated dimensions: resources agency, achievements, and consequences, and conclude that empowerment is defined by the structural dimensions of individual choice.
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Reversed Realities: Gender Hierarchies in Development Thought
TL;DR: In this paper, Naila Kabeer traces the emergence of women as a specific category in development thought and examines alternative frameworks for analysing gender hierarchies and compares the extent to which gender inequalities are revealed in different approaches to the concept of the family unit.
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Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment: A Critical Analysis of the Third Millennium Development Goal
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the third Millennium Development Goal (MDG), on gender equality and women's empowerment, and highlight ways in which the indicators associated with this Goal can contribute to it.
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Conflicts Over Credit: Re-Evaluating the Empowerment Potential of Loans to Women in Rural Bangladesh
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the reasons why recent evaluations of the empowerment potential of credit programs for rural women in Bangladesh have arrived at very conflicting conclusions and argue that the primary source of the conflict lies in the very different understandings of intra-household power relations which these studies draw on.
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Gender Mainstreaming in Poverty Eradication and the Millennium Development Goals
TL;DR: The authors highlights the interconnections between production and reproduction within different societies; women's critical role in straddling both and points to various synergies, tradeoffs and externalities which these generate.