ISBN: 978-1-55587-817-7 $35.00 | ||
1999/305 pages/LC: 99-26774 |
The authors focus on such issues as property use and ownership, efforts to recognize women’s economic rights through development programming, poverty and women-headed households, and household bargaining. The final chapter surveys the impact of various development policies, highlighting successes and failures.
"Provides rich institutional detail about how a shift to a market orientation is shaped by culture, the gender division of labor, and the legal system."—Stephanie Seguino, Review of Social Economy
"Brings together hard-to-get materials on an important area of the globe currently undergoing massive changes."—Weizhen Dong and Janet W. Salaff, China Quarterly