Naila Kabeer
Serene J. Khader
Abstract Development ethicists increasingly define women’s empowerment as the expansion of women’s agency. This chapter argues that this definition ignores the fact that women can increase their ability to achieve welfare by internalizing and discharging subordinate roles. This means that anti-pover...
Naila Kabeer, Simeen Mahmud, Sakiba Tasneem
The debate about the empowerment potential of women’s access to labour market opportunities is a long-standing one but it has taken on fresh lease of life with the increased feminization of paid work in the context of economic liberalization. Contradictory viewpoints reflect differences in how empow...
James Heintz, Naila Kabeer, Simeen Mahmud
This article was published in Oxford Development Studies [© 2017 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group] and the definite version is available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/13600818.2017.1382464 The Article's website is at: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi...
Naila Kabeer
Naila Kabeer, Lopita Huq, Simeen Mahmud
South Asia is a region characterized by a culture of son preference, severe discrimination against daughters, and excess levels of female mortality, leading to what Amartya Sen called the phenomenon of “missing women.” However, the onset of fertility decline across the region has been accompanied by...
Naila Kabeer
Whilst there is a formal commitment to rights in Bangladesh, spelt out in its constitution, its legal framework and its ratification of various international conventions on rights, the reality for its citizens is one of violations as much as the observance of rights. For the poor, in particular, who...
Naila Kabeer, Lopita Huq, Munshi Sulaiman
ABSTRACT The scale of the tragedy at Rana Plaza in Bangladesh, in which more than 1,000 garment factory workers died when the building collapsed in April 2013, galvanized a range of stakeholders to take action to prevent future disasters and to acknowledge that business as usual was not an option. P...
Naila Kabeer
Naila Kabeer
This paper examines national-level explanations tor poverty decline in Bangladesh in micro-level detail in order to better understand the nature of the causalities at work and why some households have gained, while others have failed to gain, in the processes of change involved. The analysis is base...
Naila Kabeer, Lopita Huq
This article examines the significance of social relationships in women's lives and their relevance to processes of women's empowerment. In Bangladesh, traditional structures limit women's social interaction to their immediate family and maintain male responsibility over them. However, here we look ...
Gabriele Koehler, Naila Kabeer, Deepta Chopra
This book sheds light on social policies in six South Asian countries introduced between 2003 and 2013, examining the ways in which these policies have come about, and what this reflects about the nature of the state in each of these countries. It offers a detailed analysis of the nature of these po...
Naila Kabeer
The persistence of high rates of fertility in Bangladesh, despite the poverty of its population, has been given alternative, and apparently competing, explanations, including the absence of effective forms of family planning, the resilience of pro-natalist values and norms and the existence of mater...
Naila Kabeer
Sarah Ashwin, Naila Kabeer, Elke Schüßler
ABSTRACT This Introduction synthesizes the key themes of this special cluster of articles and explores the implications of the three contributions on garment supply chains after the Rana Plaza disaster. The three articles examine the perspectives of key stakeholders in garment value chains — global ...