"This article reveals how the engagement of women with development ideas and approaches within the orbit of the United Nations challenged mainstream views and programmes, and reclaimed agency – that is, the power to define the agenda.
Through description and analysis of six decades of this engagement, it comes to the conclusion that all three groups of actors – that is, women as represented by the international women’s movement; those involved in development as currently articulated through the liberal economics paradigm; and the UN, weakened by the entry of fi nancial and corporate global players – need to rethink their basic ideas and approaches."
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By: Devaki Jain, Shubha Chacko
Published in: Forum for Development Studies
Published by: The Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI)
Published: June 2008
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