Naila Kabeer, Simeen Mahmud
Failure to invest in children's education is widely recognised as a key mechanism for the intergenerational transmission of poverty. At the same time, rising levels of education among different socioeconomic groups in countries like Bangladesh suggest that poverty on its own is not an adequate expla...
Naila Kabeer, Ariful Haq Kabir
Summary The complex nature of the challenge posed by state–society relations to the realisation of citizenship rights in the poorer countries of the world reflects the incapacity or unwillingness on the part of the state to guarantee basic security of life and livelihoods to its citizens and its pro...
Naila Kabeer, Munshi Sulaiman
While Bangladesh has a large and active development non-governmental organization sector, it has undergone a steady process of homogenization, turning from its early focus on social mobilization to a market-oriented service provision model, dominated by microfinance. This article explores the impact...
Naila Kabeer
The complex nature of the challenge posed by state–society relations to the realization of citizenship rights in poorer countries reflects the unwillingness as well as incapacity on the part of the state to guarantee basic security of life and livelihoods to its citizens, and its proneness to captur...
Simeen Mahmud, Naila Kabeer
The women workers in the Bangladesh garment industry have had more public attention to their rights than any group of workers in the entire history of the country. (Journalist, Development Research Centre (DRC) Inception Workshop on Inclusive Citizenship, Bangladesh, 2001) I believe that the "cultur...
Naila Kabeer
Naila Kabeer, Simeen Mahmud, Jairo Guillermo Isaza Castro
Summary Recent research Bangladesh has come to embody an interesting paradox. On the one hand, it has experienced rising rates of growth, a slow but steady decline in poverty and impressive progress in terms of social development, outperforming some of its richer neighbours on a number of Millennium...
Sarah Cook, Naila Kabeer
Foreword 1. Introduction -- Exclusions, Deficits and Trajectories: Rethinking Social Protection as Development Policy in the Asia Region Sarah Cook and Naila Kabeer Part 1. Social Protection in Transition Economies: Transformation, Restructuring and Coping in China and Vietnam 2. Shock-induced Pover...
Naila Kabeer
This chapter examines the complex interactions between religion and culture in constructing definitions of national identity in Bangladesh and in shaping the political projects of recent regimes. It also attempts to throw light on certain features which differentiate current Islamisation processes i...
Naila Kabeer
Bangladesh has achieved remarkable success in expanding primary education, especially for girls, despite continuing prevalence of widespread poverty and social devaluation of women and girls. This paper argues that underlining this success is a confluence of both demand- and supply-side factors invo...
Naila Kabeer
The idea of the ‘Bangladesh paradox’ describes the unexpected social progress that Bangladesh has made in recent decades that has been both pro-poor and gender equitable. This began at a time when the country was characterised by extreme levels of poverty, poor quality governance, an oppressive patr...
Andréa Cornwall, Jenny Edwards
* Introduction: Negotiating Empowerment * Andrea Cornwall and Jenny Edwards * 1.Legal Reform, Women's Empowerment and Social Change: The Case of Egypt * Mulki Al-Sharmani * 2.Quotas: A Pathway of Political Empowerment? * Ana Alice Alcantara Costa * 3. Advancing Women's Empowerment or Rolling Back th...
Naomi Hossain, Ramya Subrahmanian, Naila Kabeer
Naila Kabeer, Lopita Haq, Munshi Sulaiman
The collapse of the Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh in April, 2013 resulting in the death and injury of more than 2,000 workers from the country’s export garment industry was one of the worst industrial disasters in recorded history. The tragedy galvanized a range of stakeholders to take action to...