However, recent debates have been on whether cash transfers should be made conditional or unconditional. Conditionality in cash transfers, a UNICEF approach report written in February 2016, highlighted how the issue of conditionality has generated substantial debate in cash transfer policy.
In Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex, Kimberle Crenshaw (1989 p. 141) mentioned that one of the ways to approach the issue of intersectionality is by understanding the way courts frame and interpret it.
In the author’s bid to provide a detailed analysis of the research, he (Jones) drew from a variety of accounts, ranging from personal interviews that he had with key actors and certain persons of interest.
Advocates for microfinance like Muhammd Yunu, who first experimented with microfinance in the late 1970s, and Hernando De Soto, who also began a career advising international development agencies on the benefits of microfinance, argued that microfinance was the perfect answer to poverty reduction, i
A woman’s body they say is a country Curves to show the hills Molds to separate continent from continent A woman’s body is more than a country It’s the world
The court according to Crenshaw concluded that congress had never contemplated the fact that Black women, could be discriminated against as “Black women”. There was no provision in the law for that, and neither is the court willing to protect against such discrimination.
I do love to engage my boyfriend in conversations on gender because he gets all riled up and has a lot of opinions, that kick-start my writing juices. Our last conversation on gender was based on LGBTQ especially the “T” and the “Q” in the acronym.
Over the years, the IMF and World Bank have come up with various structural adjustments and policies aimed at improving countries' economic state. Most of these policies have been heavily criticized and have also fueled a lot of controversies an example is a structural adjustment.
The question of “Does the MPI measure functioning or capabilities”, will have to be answered by first defining what the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) is, then I will move on to base my arguments on whether they measure functions or capabilities then finally develop some indicators that measur
I found out that, to better understand the concept of gender, one has to approach it as if it were a slice of cake, each piece of it has to be sliced away in other to get to the whole piece.
The United Nations (UN) was created by Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States. Initially, the United Nations was created in such a way that all countries could join, but preference was for countries with great powers in terms of their economic standing and Government. At the time of
I don't remember when I officially met her, my memory could not stretch that far. But I do remember that in the beginning, we were friends. She would spend days with my family and me at home because she lived nearby and her mom had to work on weekends.
The features of the hijra community, to some extent, do legitimize the view that gender is not necessarily binary. However, it does not, by implication, sever sex from gender. It is only when sex is understood in fixed binary terms that such a separation between sex and gender becomes imperative in
A female husband is a woman who pays bridewealth for another woman and acquires a wife, but doesn’t have sexual relations with the said wife.
“But gender is socially constructed: it is historical and culture-bound. Consequently, the assumption that a gender system existed in 0yo society prior to Western colonization is yet another case of Western dominance in the documentation and interpretation of the world, one that is facilitated by th
Experiences from working in a Senior home.
The final part of the Circle of Friends story.
A story about friendship and friendship break ups.
According to Rowntree there are two types of poverty, Primary poverty and Secondary Poverty. You know that you belong in the Primary Poverty section, when you are unable to provide yourself with the minimum basic necessities of merely physical efficiency.
A story about searching and belonging.