This paper explores the efforts of government to interrupt the intergenerational transmission of poverty. It focuses on the practices and effects of the Primary Education Stipend Programme, a conditional cash transfer designed to attract the rural poor into school. It documents how the objects...

The food, fuel, and financial crises that started in 2008 reverberated throughout the global economy, causing job losses; poverty; and economic, financial, and political upheaval in countries all over the world. This book is not about the causes of these crises or the macroeconomic and financial...

Deals with the impact of economic globalization on female employment and considers new areas of paid employment opened up for women.

Research into the impact of the food, fuel and financial crises uncovered a palpable sense of uncertainty, awareness of global connectedness and a sense that governments had failed to act to protect people. Naomi Hossain draws on these findings to suggest that a reading of the political...

Sohela Nazneen, Maheen Sultan and Naomi Hossain explore concepts of empowerment being used by some women's organizations, development NGOs, mass political parties and aid donors in Bangladesh. Focusing primarily on public discourses, they review publicly available documentation of women's...

This paper surveys qualitative crisis monitoring data from sites in 17 developing and transition countries to describe crisis impacts and analyze the responses and sources of support used by people to cope. These crises included shocks to export sectors as a result of the global financial...

Evidence indicates that a much-feted conditional cash transfer programme designed to widen access to basic education in Bangladesh has failed in its aims. The programme is analysed here as an instance of the effort to govern chronic poverty. For the state, education fits within a national...

This article aggregates qualitative field research from sites in 17 developing countries to describe crisis impacts and analyse how people coped with the food, fuel, and financial crises during 2008--2011. The research uncovered significant hardships behind the apparent resilience, with...