pt. 1. Rural livelihoods under liberalization: The gendered impacts of liberalization policies on African agricultural economies and rural livelihoods / Anne Whitehead ; Gender inequality and agrarian change in liberalizing India / Cecile Jackson and Nitya Rao ; The feminization of agriculture? : The impact of economic restructuring in rural Latin America -- pt. 2. Informalization and feminization of labour: Informalization, the informal economy and urban women's livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa since the 1990s ; Informalization and women's workforce participation : a consideration of recent trends in Asia / Jayati Ghosh ; Informalization of labour markets : is formalization the answer? / Martha Alter Chen ; Women's migration, social reproduction and care / Nicola Yeates -- pt. 3. Social policy and the search for security: Labour reform and livelihood insecurity in China / Ching Kwan Lee ; Girls, mothers, and poverty reduction in Mexico : evaluating progresa-oportunidades / Gustín Escobar Latapí and Mercedes González de la Rocha ; Gender, citizenship and new approaches to poverty relief : conditional cash transfer programmes in Argentina / Constanza Tabbush ; Women in India's national rural employment guarantee scheme / Smita Gupta.

xiv, 374 p. : graphs, tables

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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