Volume 22, Issue 1: Researching the Household: Methodological and Empirical issues
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Gender Dimensions of Structural Adjustment: the Role of Economic Theory and Quantitative Analysis
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1991)Summary Macroeconomic theory identifies sectors which will be differentially affected by structural adjustment. This article considers the gender dimensions of such effects and how they can be analysed using large scale ... -
Gender and Poverty in Ghana: A Descriptive Analysis of Selected Outcomes and Processes
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1991)Summary The paper presents some expenditure?based and basic needs poverty indicators for Ghana, disaggregated by gender. The similarity of living standards as measured across a number of indicators and gender groupings ... -
A Methodological Framework for Analysing the Social Costs of Adjustment at the Micro?level: the Case of Guayaquil, Ecuador
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1991)Summary This article describes the methodology used to examine the social dimensions of debt, recession and structural adjustment policies in terms of their impact on low income urban households in Guayaquil, Ecuador. It ... -
Thoughts on the Cooperative Conflict Model of the Household in Relation to Economic Method
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1991)Summary Mainstream economic theory has traditionally been content to treat the family or household as a single unit. Theory has often spilled over into practice so that researchers and planners also regard the household ... -
Between the Household: Researching Community Organisation and Networks
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1991)Summary There is a growing appreciation of the importance of community and non?government organisations as factors in structural adjustment. Initially seen as an answer to poverty alleviation and later as providers of ... -
Location Gendered Experience: An Anthropologist's View from a Sierra Leonean Village
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1991)Summary This is a case study of an anthropological approach to gender and rural economic issues, based on fieldwork in a Mende village in eastern Sierra Leone. To understand people's access to resources there, it is ... -
Gender Issues in Rural Household Economics
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1991)Summary Economists working in agricultural development have been concerned to theorise and model the behaviour of households for a wide range of diagnostic and predictive purposes. These models combine two fundamental ... -
Anthropological Perspectives on the Household
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1991)Summary British anthropology until the 1960s used the term household in the descriptive sense. The arena of activities which are concentrated in the household was theorized under the term ‘the domestic domain’, in relation ...