7. If the people who know you best were asked, would they say you tend to be mostly predictable or unpredictable? Why? Which of these traits do you most value in a friend? Do you tend to follow a set routine or do you often do the same things differently?
9. For $10,000 would you be willing to stand up spontaneously and sing The Star Spangled Banner at the top of your lungs in the middle of a church service?
11. If you were to move to a poor, primitive country, what three things would you most miss from your current life?
12. What is the biggest lie you’ve ever told? Why? What were the consequences, if any?
14. What is one of the books (other than the Bible) that has had the greatest influence on your life? Why?
34. Do you think people would be surprised about your thought life? How often would you be embarrassed if others knew exactly what was on your mind? Do you think your thought life is better or worse than most of the people in your circle of friends? Why?
Chapter 1 provides a brief history of the changing policy
discourse and the processes that led to the greater visibility of
both poverty reduction and gender equality
Chapter 2 charts the gradual evolution of macroeconomic
analysis from its earlier gender-blindness to current attempts to
make it more gender aware.
Chapter 3 sketches out an ‘institutional framework’ for the
analysis of gender inequality within the economy and explores
its variation across the world.
Chapter 4 turns to a more detailed examination of the relationship between gender inequality and poverty at regional
and national levels, drawing on findings from three different
approaches to poverty analysis: the poverty line approach; the
capabilities approach (using human development indicators);
and participatory poverty assessments.
Women’s role as economic actors – and its critical importance to the livelihoods of the poor across the world – is considered in Chapter 5.
Chapter 6 focuses on the human development concerns of
the MDGs.
Chapter 7 reinforces the critical importance of certain
resources to women’s capacity to exercise agency, but this time
focuses on forms of agency that are in the interests of women
themselves – in other words, those that serve the goals of
women’s empowerment and gender justice.
The final chapter (Chapter 8) attempts to draw out the
implications of the relationship between gender equality and
pro-poor growth for policy efforts to achieve the MDGs.
Millennium Development Goal (MDG) on
poverty eradication.
"In September 2000, at the United Nations Millennium Summit, 189 governments across the world made a commitment to take collective responsibility for halving world poverty by 2015."
So far, one of the few countries making progress on-track to achieve this goal is (surprisingly) Bangladesh (cited in Yunus, Mohammad. _Creating a World Without Poverty_)
Debunking Stereotypes. In this project, students collect information about the cultural stereotypes of their countries and and debunk them. Facilitated by Saeed Al Abdulsalam in Oman. Poster at right by Macedonia team. Read more and connect to the forum.