Andréa Cornwall, Vera Schattan P. Coelho
* Foreword - John Gaventa * 1. Spaces for Change? The Politics of Participation in New Democratic Arenas - Andrea Cornwall and Vera Schattan P. Coelho * Part I: The Challenge of Inclusion ** 2. Brazilian Health Councils: including the excluded? - Vera Schattan P. Coelho ** 3. Spaces for participatio...
Simeen Mahmud, Nirali Shah, Stan Becker
Women’s empowerment is a dynamic process that has been quantified, measured and described in a variety of ways. We measure empowerment in a sample of 3500 rural women in 128 villages of Bangladesh with five indicators. A conceptual framework is presented, together with descriptive data on the indica...
Naila Kabeer, Simeen Mahmud
Abstract Economic liberalization in Bangladesh has led to the emergence of a number of export‐oriented industries, of which the manufacture of ready‐made garments is the most prominent. The industry currently employs around 1.5 million workers, the overwhelming majority of whom are women. This paper...
Simeen Mahmud
Abstract This article re‐assesses the effect of microcredit programme participation on women's empowerment by applying an analytical framework that recognizes the conceptual shift in emphasis in the definition of empowerment, from notions of greater well‐being of women to notions of women's choice a...
Syed Masud Ahmed, Timothy Evans, Hilary Standing, Simeen Mahmud
How do we explain the paradox that Bangladesh has made remarkable progress in health and human development, yet its achievements have taken place within a health system that is frequently characterised as weak, in terms of inadequate physical and human infrastructure and logistics, and low performin...
Naila Kabeer, Simeen Mahmud, Sakiba Tasneem
The debate about the relationship between paid work and women’s position \nwithin the family and society is a long standing one. Some argue that women’s \nintegration into the market is the key to their empowerment while others offer \nmore sceptical, often pessimistic, accounts of this ...
Naila Kabeer, Simeen Mahmud, Jairo Guillermo Isaza Castro
Recent research in Bangladesh highlights an interesting paradox: impressive development outcomes combined with extremely poor quality of governance. The country’s active development NGO sector has been credited with some of the more positive development achievements. The question that this paper set...
Rajiv Chowdhury, Abbas Bhuiya, Simeen Mahmud, A K M Abdus Salam et al.
This paper examines inequalities in the use of, and access to, vaccination service in Bangladesh by analyzing national and small area-based datasets. The analysis showed that female children had a lower immunization coverage than male children--the difference persists for all antigens and widens aga...
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...
Simeen Mahmud, Sajeda Amin
In Bangladesh, girls’ ability to complete schooling is compromised by poverty and the practice of early marriage. Although most girls enroll in school, rates of dropping out are high around puberty. This paper uses a panel survey (2001 and 2003) of nearly 3,000 adolescent girls in rural Bangladesh t...
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...
Simeen Mahmud
Increase in female labor supply accompanied by generation of demand for female labor in new forms of production resulted in a feminization of the labor force in Bangladesh. This has affected both gender segregation and market segmentation. Women’s primary responsibility for reproductive work, howeve...
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...
Simeen Mahmud
Judith Heyer, Frances Stewart, Rosemary Thorp
This book focuses on group behaviour in developing countries. It includes studies of producer and community organizations, NGOs, and some public sector groups. Despite the fact that most economic decisions are taken by people acting within groups -- families, firms, neighbourhood or community associ...