The Legal Edge

Easter Boserup’s book, Women in Economic Development, 1970, the Seventh Kenya National Development Plan 2003 and the World Bank  2007 have awakened the realities that “man” does not necessarily include women. The contribution of women in development has largely remained unrecognized and tended to marginalise women thereby isolating them from participating in development and decision making and sharing unequal  shares in some of the  benefits of development.   Gender according to Mari Mikkola Feminist Perspectives on Sex and Gender Encapsulates the varied complex arrangements between men and women encompassing the organization of reproduction, the sexual divisions and cultural definitions of femininity and masculinity. Gender has been concerned with social relations - categories men and women male and female and interactions of men and women rather than their biological characteristics.It relates to their social activity - resources of production; work remuneration...

Debt in Developing Countries   As Mr. Outtara (MD World Bank) said in Zubair Iqbal, Ravi Kanbur, External Finance for Low Income Countries, “globalisation holds extraordinary promise for us all: of faster growth, greater poverty reduction, and a better quality of life for more people.   But it also poses considerable risks, particularly that of a "two-speed" world emerging: on the one hand, those countries that are rapidly becoming integrated into the new global economy of expanding trade, private capital, and information flows; and on the other hand, those countries that are being left behind—unable to make the necessary connections with the new global trends. The rise in public debt has been accompanied by an increase in corporate debt, particularly in middle-income countries, as many large companies took advantage of the long period of unusually low international interest rates. Further increases in global interest rates could create concerns for financial stability and, ...