Description: This book maps the emerging impact of the economic crisis on people in different contexts, and suggest policy and practice changes. Authors include researchers as well as policymakers and development practitioners, who analyse the initial impacts of the economic crisis in South and East Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East.
Brief description: Ruth Pearson is Professor of International Development at the University of Leeds and is researching gender and work in the global economy. She is the author of several books and many articles.
Review Quotes: "Nine previously published papers examine gender and the economic crisis. Papers discuss the global economic crisis, its gender and ethnic implications and pilicy responses; gender and the global economic crisis in developing countries - a framework for analysis; gendered implications of the economic crisis for migrant workers from Burma/Myanmar in Thailand... the case of street traders in Johannesburg; and crisis, care, and childhood - the impact of the economic crisis on care work in poor households in the developing world."--Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Association Publications