This book introduces a much-needed gender lens to debates around social protection. Millions of dollars are invested annually in social protection policies and programs addressing poverty and vulnerability in the developing world. Despite this, little attention has been paid to social protection's role in tackling gendered experiences of poverty and vulnerability. Gender and Social Protection in the Developing World argues that gender-sensitive policy and program design and implementation are essential. Drawing on empirical evidence from Africa, Asia and Latin America, the book provides rich insights. into the effects of a broad range of social protection instruments. It concludes that with relatively simple design changes and investment in implementation capacity there is potential for social protection to contribute to transforming gender relations at the individual, intra-household and community levels.

Product Description: An illuminating look at the relationship between knowledge, policy, and power, this book scrutinizes the problems that hamper attempts to bring knowledge to bear on policy, such as difficulties in analyzing political contexts, persistent power imbalances between involved parties, ignorance of different types of knowledge, and misconceptions of the role of intermediaries...read more

Product Description: In 1993, he found a Roman coin dated 33-44 AD. And in 2007 the first supernatural event occurred. The last owner of the coin, a Roman surgeon named Cateus, along with his daughter, visits the new owner, Malcolm Jones, with unfinished business and a story to tell...read more

Part of the 'Churchill Livingstone Illustrated Colour Text' series, this volume is suitable for medical students and nurses. It provides a visual introduction to the basic principles and practice of intensive care medicine. It includes line diagrams, clinical photographs, and radiological images that demonstrate essential concepts at a glance.