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Capital, labour and land relations in Africa: a gender analysis of the World Bank's Policy Research Report on Land Institutions and Land Policy
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UNSPECIFIED (2003) Capital, labour and land relations in Africa: a gender analysis of the World Bank's Policy Research Report on Land Institutions and Land Policy. THIRD WORLD QUARTERLY, 24 (1). pp. 97-114. doi:10.1080/0143659032000044379 ISSN 0143-6597.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0143659032000044379
Abstract
This paper presents a gender analysis of the World Bank's recent Policy Research Report. It assesses the implications for women, and more widely for gender relations, of the World Bank's approach to land relations. The analysis focuses on two issues: the Report's promotion of formal rural credit and its assumption of the availability of women's agricultural labour This paper challenges the notion of 'non-contractible labour', as well as the Report's use of the household as a unit of analysis and its underlying assumption of motivated family labour It discusses the consequences for households of defaulting on rural loans and challenges the Report's attempts to link the promotion of credit markets and reliance on women's unpaid labour to poverty reduction. In light of this discussion, the paper argues that it continues to be important for advocates of women's rights in Africa to be attentive to land issues and in particular to respond to the World Bank's land agenda.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | THIRD WORLD QUARTERLY | ||||
Publisher: | CARFAX PUBLISHING | ||||
ISSN: | 0143-6597 | ||||
Official Date: | February 2003 | ||||
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Volume: | 24 | ||||
Number: | 1 | ||||
Number of Pages: | 18 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 97-114 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1080/0143659032000044379 | ||||
Publication Status: | Published |
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