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Brings together some of the best-known academics, activists and practitioners in the field to present a comprehensive overview with original case studies from Brazil, India, China , South Africa, Malawi, Uganda and Nicaragua.
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I Don't Know Monica Lewinsky, and I'm Not in the CIA. Now How about that Interview?
On January 18, 1998, I walked off a plane in São Paulo, Brazil. As I cleared customs and weaved through the hot, steamy airport, the cafes and newsstands, I noticed one young woman's face on the front pages of all the newspapers and journals I passed. She was wearing a beret and hugging Bill Clinton in the photo, and her name was Monica Lewinsky. Never having heard of her before, I assumed the interest in her was specific to Brazil. Surely I would know her name if she actually mattered to anyone, I thought, and went on.
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Delivering on the promise of pro-poor growth : insights and lessons from country experiences
Broad-based growth is critical for accelerating poverty reduction. But income inequality also affects the pace at which growth translates into gains for the poor. Despite the attention researchers have given to the relative roles of growth and inqequality in reducing poverty, little is known about how the microunderpinnings of growth strategies affect poor households' ability to participate in and profit from growth. Delivering on the Promise of Pro-Poor Growth contributes to the debate on how to accelerate poverty reduction by providing insights from eight countries that have been relatively successful in delivering pro-poor growth: Bangladesh, Brazil, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Tunisia, Uganda, and Vietnam. It integrates growth analytics with the microanalysis of household data to determine how country policies and conditions interact to reduce poverty and to spread the benefits of growth across different income groups. This title is a useful resource for policy makers, donor agencies, academics, think tanks, and government officials seeking a practical framework to improve country level diagnostics of growth-poverty linkages.
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\Calling a state a state\: Feminist politics and the policing of violence against women in Brazil
Hautzinger focuses on the question of whose interests are served by the creation of Salvador Brazil's Delagacia de Protecao a Mulher (DPM) or Police Station for the Protection of Women. She argues that Salvador's policewomen benefit little from the creation of the DPM because assumptions about femininity used to organize the DPM contribute to discrimination against female police.
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Black Brazilian Women and the Lula Administration
THE SOCIAL SCIENCES PRODUCED BY BLACK intellectuals that developed in Brazil in the 1970s and '80s1 showed us that without the implementation of public policies for black citizens, no theory of development can be sustained as a model for overcoming socioeconomic inequalities.2 After more than 30 years, with the arrival in January 2003 of the Luiz Inacio \"LuIa\" Da Silva administration, the fight for racial and gender equality that took to the streets and intervened in the national policy agenda beginning in the 1980s now faces limits imposed, in part, by institutionalized racism.3 This racism takes the form of a lack of understanding of the strategic meaning of confronting racism and sexism as a fundamental step in development. It deals specifically with the way in which racism, partriarchy class oppression and other discriminatory systems create basic inequalities that organize positions relative to women, races, ethnic groups, classes and others.6 The conceptual development of intersectionality-which is necessary for articulating policy, and key to understanding government action in implementing public policies that confront simultaneous racism, sexism, ageism, classism, regionalism and other prejudices-must take into account all the accumulated identities that burden black Brazilian women, who rank among the lowest in the Americas on the Index of Human Development.
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