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Women’s empowerment for sustainable rural livelihoods:
(kassel university press, 2018-12)
Agricultural interventions are designed on certain assumptions of empowerment that do not necessarily address the livelihood constraints of the rural women they set out to support. This is a failing that might be due to the omission of women’s voices expressing their understanding of empowerment and its relation to existing gender orders. Using primary data from the Upper East and Northern Regions in Ghana, we explored women and men’s notions of the processes and outcomes of empowerment. We began by understanding the ...
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Progressive Fiskal- und Steuerpolitik als Instrument für nachhaltige Entwicklung?
(kassel university press, 2019)
Hohe Rohstoffeinnahmen werden in rentenstaatstheoretischen Ansätzen oftmals als Ursache eines fiskalpolitischen Ressourcenfluchs gesehen. Demnach vernachlässigen rohstoffabhängige Staaten u. a. den Aufbau eines effektiven Steuersystems. Auch verlieren produktive Wirtschaftssektoren an Bedeutung, was schließlich zu Stagnation und Niedergang ganzer Volkswirtschaften führen kann. Sobald die Rohstoffeinnahmen zurückgehen, geraten Rohstoffstaaten in finanzielle Schwierigkeiten. Für Ecuadors Revolución Ciudadana (2007 – ...
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Care Extractivism and the Reconfiguration of Social Reproduction in Post-Fordist Economies
(kassel university press, 2019-04)
This paper suggests the concept of care extractivism as a space- and time-diagnostic tool to international political economics in post-fordist societies. Analogous to resourceextractivism, care extractivism depicts the intensified commodification of social reproduction and care work along social hierarchies of gender, class, race and North-Southas a strategy to cope with a crisis of social reproduction. Extractivist policies result in the creation of a cheap reproductive labour force.The paper analyses the current ...
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Farmers in Peri-Urban Regions: Socio- Economic Changes and Access to Finance Study for Indian Economy
(kassel university press, 2018)
Given the rapid pace of urbanization and expansion of cities, the peri-urban regions become important mostly because of their dynamic and transitional nature. This paper tries to capture the changing nature of socio-economic characteristics and access to different financial activities in the peri-urban regions of India in general and Karnataka in particular. More specifically, the paper examines these changing characteristics among the farmers of the peri-urban regions. Results reveal that urbanization has had impact ...