Poverty, Social Exclusion and the MDGs: The Challenge of ‘Durable Inequalities' in the Asian Context

Kabeer, Naila

doi:10.1111/j.1759-5436.2006.tb00270.x

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“…In Pakistan, perceptions of social identity are also related to caste membership [8]. Powerful groups construct and draw upon societal beliefs, norms and values to disparage, make invisible and demean certain groups of people and, thereby justify denying them full rights of participation in economic, social and political life [9]. Caste membership and gender are inextricably linked with economic poverty [10].…”

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Are community midwives addressing the inequities in access to skilled birth attendance in Punjab, Pakistan? Gender, class and social exclusion

Mumtaz

O’Brien

Bhatti

et al. 2012

BMC Health Serv Res

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BackgroundPakistan is one of the six countries estimated to contribute to over half of all maternal deaths worldwide. To address its high maternal mortality rate, in particular the inequities in access to maternal health care services, the government of Pakistan created a new cadre of community-based midwives (CMW). A key expectation is that the CMWs will improve access to skilled antenatal and intra-partum care for the poor and disadvantaged women. A critical gap in our knowledge is whether this cadre of workers, operating in the private health care context, will meet the expectation to provide care to the poorest and most marginalized women. There is an inherent paradox between the notions of fee-for-service and increasing access to health care for the poorest who, by definition, are unable to pay.Methods/DesignData will be collected in three interlinked modules. Module 1 will consist of a population-based survey in the catchment areas of the CMW’s in districts Jhelum and Layyah in Punjab. Proportions of socially excluded women who are served by CMWs and their satisfaction levels with their maternity care provider will be assessed. Module 2 will explore, using an institutional ethnographic approach, the challenges (organizational, social, financial) that CMWs face in providing care to the poor and socially marginalized women. Module 3 will identify the social, financial, geographical and other barriers to uncover the hidden forces and power relations that shape the choices and opportunities of poor and marginalized women in accessing CMW services. An extensive knowledge dissemination plan will facilitate uptake of research findings to inform positive developments in maternal health policy, service design and care delivery in Pakistan.DiscussionThe findings of this study will enhance understanding of the power dynamics of gender and class that may underlie poor women’s marginalization from health care systems, including community midwifery care. One key outcome will be an increased sensitization of the special needs of socially excluded women, an otherwise invisible group. Another expectation is that the poor, socially excluded women will be targeted for provision of maternity care. The research will support the achievement of the 5th Millennium Development Goal in Pakistan.

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Are community midwives addressing the inequities in access to skilled birth attendance in Punjab, Pakistan? Gender, class and social exclusion

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Bhatti

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BMC Health Serv Res

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“…11 In 2007 James Raymond Vreeland reviewed a vast collection of studies on explanations for failures of adjustment policies and concluded that they had a strongly negative and statistically significant impact on economic growth in the long run. As he put it, 'the newly emerging consensus is that IMF adjustment policies hurt economic growth' (Vreeland 2007: 90 Kabeer (2006), Manning (2010), Pollard et al (2011) and Vandemoortele and Delamonica (2010). 14 See for example, Vandemoortele (2014Vandemoortele ( , 2016.…”

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From Development of the ‘Other’ to Global Governance for Universal and Sustainable Development

Jolly¹,

Santos

2016

IDS Bulletin

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“…Development scholars approach the idea of development positively, because it brings material and psychological improvement as human beings learn how to manipulate the natural world (Kabeer 2006). This is a result of human beings' tendency to evaluate development in terms of material outcome and gain, for instance, income, goods and services.…”

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“…The axiom underlying this theory as an approach to social development is that citizens should have opportunities to participate in a wide range of activities, if they choose to do so. In order to have everyone on board, institutional or structural barriers to participation need to be minimised, as they obstruct access to power and the decision making that affects people's daily lives, such as livelihoods options and human rights (Kabeer 2006).It is also important to mention that after the 1960s, the African development landscape was guided by the basic-needs approach, which directed the allocation of public resources to social sectors. Moreover, the approach insisted on ensuring transparency and the meaningful participation of all people, especially the most disadvantaged, in decision making.…”

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Contemporary concerns in development studies: Perspectives from Tanzania and Zambia

Kilonzo¹,

Kontinen²

2015

Publications of the Department of Political and Economic Studies. Development Studies

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As part of the institutionalization of "development" after the Second World War, academia has witnessed emergence of the discipline of development studies. The five decades of the discipline have testified a number of theoretical shifts in considering how to conceptualize the very notion of development, and how to make sense out of the global processes and inequalities. Additionally, the place of development studies within the disciplinary landscape of academia has been continuously debated. Moreover, as a discipline, development studies have had more or less close connections with development policy and practice. Many strands of development studies have contributed to defining the pertinent development problems, and generating suggestions on the ways in which to address these problems.In this edited volume we would like to take some distance from on one hand, the development problems, and on the other, the abstract theoretical discourses of development. That is why we have selected to address the "concerns" of development studies. We are inspired by development studies being both embedded in theory and having concern on the societal and natural phenomena that contribute to inequalities and human well-being. Concerns, in this volume, refer to development-related puzzles that call for theoretically-informed investigation, and empirically-grounded ideas on how to address these concerns.Without doubt, the concept of development is a point of departure for the discipline. The central concern in development studies has been to research development processes as affected by array of factors in order to understand the underlying forces. Regardless of time and resources spent so far in development aspects, development studies is still experiencing unsolved challenges, which we refer as "concerns" including: rapid urbanization, political instability, gender inequality, food insecurity, poor governance, global technological gaps, spiraling levels of poverty and unequal distribution of financial and other resources.These concerns still exist partly because they are addressed in isolation with individual disciplines. For example, the economists deal with poverty in economic point of view i.e. following economic growth standards as their main concern. On the other hand, sociologists address development concerns using sociological lenses without considering other areas like political science, geography and rural development, while all these are areas in development studies. Anthropology has had an ambiguous relationship with development and its interventionists pursues. The agricultural sciences, 8 forestry, geology, biology and the like add to the complexity of approaches, not to mention the computer sciences and its possibilities in dealing with so-called big data now increasingly available also in developing world.The contemporary concerns in development studies in this volume are identified and discussed mainly by development scholars with first-hand experience of development. Too often, development studies publications pr...

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Poverty, Social Exclusion and the MDGs: The Challenge of ‘Durable Inequalities' in the Asian Context

Cited by 98 publications

References 13 publications

Are community midwives addressing the inequities in access to skilled birth attendance in Punjab, Pakistan? Gender, class and social exclusion

Are community midwives addressing the inequities in access to skilled birth attendance in Punjab, Pakistan? Gender, class and social exclusion

From Development of the ‘Other’ to Global Governance for Universal and Sustainable Development

Contemporary concerns in development studies: Perspectives from Tanzania and Zambia

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