Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 13,66 MB
Release : 2019-04-04
Category :
ISBN : 9264683356
The report proposes the development of innovative public policies based on the reinforcement of the social capital of women and policy approaches that promote better integration of the initiatives undertaken by governments, international and non-governmental organisations to empower women and strengthen their resilience.
Author : OECD
Publisher : Org. for Economic Cooperation & Development
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,20 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Businesswomen
ISBN : 9789264595026
Women make a significant contribution to West Africa's food economy, perpetuating a long tradition of commerce and participating in cross-border trade and regional outreach. Their activities face numerous obstacles but also present important opportunities, highlighted in this report through an unprecedented relational and spatial analysis of social networks. The study focuses on the rice sector in the Dendi region (Benin, Niger and Nigeria) and on the regional governance networks that support women's entrepreneurship. It confirms that Nigeria occupies a privileged position due to its demographics and growing urbanisation. The report proposes the development of innovative public policies based on the reinforcement of the social capital of women and policy approaches that promote better integration of the initiatives undertaken by governments, international and non-governmental organisations to empower women and strengthen their resilience.
Author : Ghislaine Lydon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 28,94 MB
Release : 2009-03-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521887240
This study examines the history and organization of trans-Saharan trade in western Africa using original source material.
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 25,14 MB
Release : 2021-03-29
Category :
ISBN : 9264455906
Conflicts in North and West Africa have become more violent and widespread than in the past. They have also become more difficult to resolve due to the complex relationships between a growing number of belligerents with diverging agendas. This report maps conflict networks and the evolution of rivalries and alliances in 21 North and West African countries.
Author : World Bank;World Trade Organization
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 17,50 MB
Release : 2020-09-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1464815569
Trade can dramatically improve women’s lives, creating new jobs, enhancing consumer choices, and increasing women’s bargaining power in society. It can also lead to job losses and a concentration of work in low-skilled employment. Given the complexity and specificity of the relationship between trade and gender, it is essential to assess the potential impact of trade policy on both women and men and to develop appropriate, evidence-based policies to ensure that trade helps to enhance opportunities for all. Research on gender equality and trade has been constrained by limited data and a lack of understanding of the connections among the economic roles that women play as workers, consumers, and decision makers. Building on new analyses and new sex-disaggregated data, Women and Trade: The Role of Trade in Promoting Gender Equality aims to advance the understanding of the relationship between trade and gender equality and to identify a series of opportunities through which trade can improve the lives of women.
Author : Bandana Purkayastha
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 13,91 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780739108048
Too often, editors Bandana Purkayastha and Mangala Subramaniam have found, marginalized groups in rural or impoverished areas are overlooked by the international economy of knowledge. The Power of Women's Informal Networks describes and evaluates social organization among poor women in South Asia and West Africa as attempts to challenge marginalization. The discerning editors and contributors explicitly consider the situated contexts within which women work together to improve their lives, with a primary focus on international women's agencies.
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 38,63 MB
Release : 2014-12-19
Category :
ISBN : 9264222359
This book explains the structure and geographical and organisational mobility of criminal and migratory movements in the Sahara and the Sahel with a view to helping establish better development strategies for the region.
Author : Kelly Ann Krawczyk
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 12,28 MB
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9811981906
This book examines women’s participation in social, economic and political development in West Africa. The book looks at women from the premise of being active agents in the development processes within their communities, thereby subverting the dominate narrative of women as passive recipients of development.
Author : Robin Law
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 35,75 MB
Release : 2002-08-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521523066
This edited collection, written by eleven leading specialists, examines the nineteenth-century commercial transition in West Africa: the ending of the Atlantic slave trade and the development of alternative forms of 'legitimate' trade, mainly in vegetable products. Approaching the subject from an African, rather than a European or American, perspective, the case studies consider the effects of transition on the African societies involved. They offer significant insights into the history of pre-colonial Africa and the slave trade, the origins of European imperialism, and longer-term issues of economic development in Africa.
Author : George E. Brooks
Publisher : James Currey Publishers
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 36,94 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780852554890
This text examines the late-18th-century changes to the circumstances of Eurafricans - the offspring of Jewish, French, Dutch and English traders in western Africa.
