Empowering Govermentalities Rather than Women

What is it about?

This articles analyzes the four UNDP Human Development Reports on the Arab World, and especially the last one (2005), which focused on gender in the region. It criticizes the gender human development report as avoiding the major obstacles to "empowerment," not addressing the causes of poverty and corruption, and recycling problematic assumptions about culture. Most importantly, the article argues that the logic of these reports expects governments to resolve problems they cause.

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