Pub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.1177/14649934221103913
Gloria Abena Ampim, Haldis Haukanes, A. Blystad, A. Kpoor
Drawing on qualitative research from rural and urban areas, this article contributes to evolving social research in Ghana on possible changes in the gendered distribution of domestic labour. Formulated within debates on ‘doing gender’ and ‘undoing gender’, this study examines the extent to which acts of gender transgression may potentially occur during peak reproductive periods in the lives of Ghanaian couples. The findings of the study indicate that the participants reiterated normative gendered definitions of men as primary providers and women as primary domestic caretakers. Nonetheless, it was noted that during their partner’s pregnancy, men in both urban and rural areas were willing to modify their daily schedule to incorporate more housework. Simultaneously, men’s involvement in all or most of the household chores was perceived as potentially dangerous to the gendered balance of labour in the family and could, according to the participants, stimulate laziness among female partners. Despite the apparent resistance to male performance of domestic chores, the article argues that men’s willingness to do housework during their partner’s pregnancy may be an early indicator of slow but steady transformations in gender relations in Ghana.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-11DOI: 10.1177/14649934221117857
C. Locke
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{"title":"Book review: Táíwò, O.O. 2022: Reconsidering Reparations","authors":"Jason C. Mueller","doi":"10.1177/14649934221119843","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14649934221119843","url":null,"abstract":"Táíwò, O.O. 2022: Reconsidering Reparations. New York: Oxford University Press. 280 pp. $35.00 (hardback). ISBN: 978-0-197-50889-3 (hardback).","PeriodicalId":47042,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Development Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43596067","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-06DOI: 10.1177/14649934221119842
Khadija Zulfiqar, Yen-Chiang Chang
Traczykowski, L. 2021: Ethics, Law and Natural Hazards: The Moral Imperative for International Intervention Post-Disaster. London: Routledge. 140 pp. £120 hardcover, £33.29 paperback. ISBN: 9780367808600 (paperback), 9780367407049 (hardcover).
{"title":"Book review: Traczykowski, L. 2021: Ethics, Law and Natural Hazards: The Moral Imperative for International Intervention Post-Disaster","authors":"Khadija Zulfiqar, Yen-Chiang Chang","doi":"10.1177/14649934221119842","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14649934221119842","url":null,"abstract":"Traczykowski, L. 2021: Ethics, Law and Natural Hazards: The Moral Imperative for International Intervention Post-Disaster. London: Routledge. 140 pp. £120 hardcover, £33.29 paperback. ISBN: 9780367808600 (paperback), 9780367407049 (hardcover).","PeriodicalId":47042,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Development Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48463470","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-11DOI: 10.1177/14649934221113741
K. Kim, E. Choi, Suh-Yong Chung
This article assesses how South Korea, an emerging donor, is mainstreaming climate change considerations into its official development assistance (ODA) activities. We find that Korea’s climate mainstreaming remains in the incipient stage, with a lack of consistent political commitment at the macro level, misalignment with the recipient’s development plans at the meso level and insufficient institutional capacity at the micro level. In addition to the governance systems that fall short of incentivizing the mainstreaming of climate change, this research identifies a number of characteristics accounting for Korea’s progress with climate mainstreaming that may be unique to emerging donors, like under-reporting of climate ODA and the absence of mainstreaming fatigue.
{"title":"Mainstreaming Climate Change into Emerging Donor’s Official Development Assistance: The Case of South Korea","authors":"K. Kim, E. Choi, Suh-Yong Chung","doi":"10.1177/14649934221113741","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14649934221113741","url":null,"abstract":"This article assesses how South Korea, an emerging donor, is mainstreaming climate change considerations into its official development assistance (ODA) activities. We find that Korea’s climate mainstreaming remains in the incipient stage, with a lack of consistent political commitment at the macro level, misalignment with the recipient’s development plans at the meso level and insufficient institutional capacity at the micro level. In addition to the governance systems that fall short of incentivizing the mainstreaming of climate change, this research identifies a number of characteristics accounting for Korea’s progress with climate mainstreaming that may be unique to emerging donors, like under-reporting of climate ODA and the absence of mainstreaming fatigue.","PeriodicalId":47042,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Development Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47663067","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-07-01DOI: 10.1177/14649934221110026
E. Igonya, L. Nencel, Ida Sabelis, Grace Kimemia
This article has two objectives: first, to contribute to the academic understanding of the relationship of money with sex work by going beyond purely instrumentalist conceptualizations; and second, to inform interventions aiming to empower sex workers’ economically. Qualitative research was conducted to better understand the financial lives of sex workers in Mombasa, Kenya. The article draws largely on a participatory method using 12 economic diaries accompanied by 30 informal discussions. We complement the economic diaries with 24 in-depth interviews, key informant interviews and participant observations conducted between 2014 and 2017. We found that sex workers’ savings, spending, and earning practices were highly influenced by stigma, mobility and economic insecurity. We also found that sex workers gave substantial meaning to the idea of ‘quick money’, which reflected their daily financial strategies. The likelihood for development interventions to succeed will increase when sex workers are directly involved and not just recipients in programmes; furthermore, that programmes adequately recognize and address the needs and desires of sex workers and understand the socio-economic dynamics shaping sex work. In this article, these socio-economic factors revealed through the process and method of participants’ writing economic diaries.
{"title":"Using Economic Diaries in an Ethnographic Study: What They Can Tell About the Financial and Daily Lives of Male and Female Sex Workers in Mombasa","authors":"E. Igonya, L. Nencel, Ida Sabelis, Grace Kimemia","doi":"10.1177/14649934221110026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14649934221110026","url":null,"abstract":"This article has two objectives: first, to contribute to the academic understanding of the relationship of money with sex work by going beyond purely instrumentalist conceptualizations; and second, to inform interventions aiming to empower sex workers’ economically. Qualitative research was conducted to better understand the financial lives of sex workers in Mombasa, Kenya. The article draws largely on a participatory method using 12 economic diaries accompanied by 30 informal discussions. We complement the economic diaries with 24 in-depth interviews, key informant interviews and participant observations conducted between 2014 and 2017. We found that sex workers’ savings, spending, and earning practices were highly influenced by stigma, mobility and economic insecurity. We also found that sex workers gave substantial meaning to the idea of ‘quick money’, which reflected their daily financial strategies. The likelihood for development interventions to succeed will increase when sex workers are directly involved and not just recipients in programmes; furthermore, that programmes adequately recognize and address the needs and desires of sex workers and understand the socio-economic dynamics shaping sex work. In this article, these socio-economic factors revealed through the process and method of participants’ writing economic diaries.","PeriodicalId":47042,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Development Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45883360","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-13DOI: 10.1177/14649934221101735
Tushar Agrawal, A. Agrawal
A considerable body of research on inequality in India has focused on consumption inequality. This article compares inequality in consumption expenditure and income, using two waves of the India Human Development Survey. We find that while income inequality increased marginally, expenditure inequality remained stable. The article also undertakes the decomposition of income inequality by sources and finds that wage and agricultural incomes contribute most to inequality in rural areas whereas wage and business incomes are the major contributors in urban areas. Wages and government transfers arse found to be inequality-decreasing sources of income, and agricultural income is found to be inequality-increasing. While government transfers benefit low-income households, there is potential for increasing their efficacy and for attaining a more egalitarian distribution of income by better targeting. Further, we examine how expenditure and income are associated with the ownership of household assets. Our findings suggest that low consumption is a better indicator of material well-being than low income.
{"title":"Beyond Consumption Expenditure: Income Inequality and Its Sources in India","authors":"Tushar Agrawal, A. Agrawal","doi":"10.1177/14649934221101735","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14649934221101735","url":null,"abstract":"A considerable body of research on inequality in India has focused on consumption inequality. This article compares inequality in consumption expenditure and income, using two waves of the India Human Development Survey. We find that while income inequality increased marginally, expenditure inequality remained stable. The article also undertakes the decomposition of income inequality by sources and finds that wage and agricultural incomes contribute most to inequality in rural areas whereas wage and business incomes are the major contributors in urban areas. Wages and government transfers arse found to be inequality-decreasing sources of income, and agricultural income is found to be inequality-increasing. While government transfers benefit low-income households, there is potential for increasing their efficacy and for attaining a more egalitarian distribution of income by better targeting. Further, we examine how expenditure and income are associated with the ownership of household assets. Our findings suggest that low consumption is a better indicator of material well-being than low income.","PeriodicalId":47042,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Development Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47078253","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-05-17DOI: 10.1177/14649934211066894
O. Karnaukhova
Hout, W. and Salih, M.M.A. 2019: A Political Economy of African Regionalisms: An Overview of Asymmetrical Development. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing. 200 pp. £70 hardback. ISBN: 978-1-78536-436-5 (cased), 978-1-78536-437-2 (eBook). 10.4337/9781785364372
{"title":"Book review: Hout, W. and Salih, M.M.A. 2019: A Political Economy of African Regionalisms: An Overview of Asymmetrical Development","authors":"O. Karnaukhova","doi":"10.1177/14649934211066894","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14649934211066894","url":null,"abstract":"Hout, W. and Salih, M.M.A. 2019: A Political Economy of African Regionalisms: An Overview of Asymmetrical Development. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing. 200 pp. £70 hardback. ISBN: 978-1-78536-436-5 (cased), 978-1-78536-437-2 (eBook). 10.4337/9781785364372","PeriodicalId":47042,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Development Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47053253","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-05-16DOI: 10.1177/14649934221081958
S. Mukhopadhyay
Himanshu, Lanjouw, P. and Stern, N. 2018: How Lives Change: Palanpur, India, and Development Economics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, xiv+528 pp. £35.00, ISBN: 9780198806509 (Hardback).
{"title":"Book review: Himanshu, Lanjouw, P. and Stern, N. 2018: How Lives Change: Palanpur, India, and Development Economics","authors":"S. Mukhopadhyay","doi":"10.1177/14649934221081958","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14649934221081958","url":null,"abstract":"Himanshu, Lanjouw, P. and Stern, N. 2018: How Lives Change: Palanpur, India, and Development Economics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, xiv+528 pp. £35.00, ISBN: 9780198806509 (Hardback).","PeriodicalId":47042,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Development Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44996756","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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