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Gender and Structural Adjustment

In: Do World Bank and IMF Policies Work?

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  • Shahrukh Rafi Khan

    (Sustainable Development Policy Institute)

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‘If men and women were to take turns bearing children and if men were to bear the first, no family would have more than two children.’ This is a hard-hitting saying by a down-to-earth woman. One could also say that if men lived the lives of poor rural or urban women for a day, they would quickly endorse a special focus on the condition of women. As things stand, in Pakistan, a special focus on women is often suspected to be driven by a foreign agenda. Even so, one needs to consider the ideological resistance to studying women, and to focus on interventions to improve their social and economic conditions.

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  • Shahrukh Rafi Khan, 1999. "Gender and Structural Adjustment," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Do World Bank and IMF Policies Work?, chapter 7, pages 124-137, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-37325-9_8
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230373259_8
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