Equality for Women: Where Do We Stand on Millennium Development Goal 3?

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction, Overview, and Future Policy Agenda / Mayra Buvinic, Andrew R. Morrison -- 2. The State of World Progress, 1990-2007 / Andrew R. Morrison, Shwetlena Sabarwal, Mirja Sjoblom -- 3. Indicators and Indexes of Gender Equality: What Do They Measure and What Do They Miss? / Caren Grown -- 4. Monitoring Progress in Gender Equality in the Labor Market / Zafiris Tzannatos -- 5. The Financial Requirements of Achieving Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment / Caren Grown, Chandrika Bahadur, Jessie Handbury, Diane Elson -- 6. What Money Can't Buy: Getting Implementation Right for MDG3 in South Asia / Maitreyi Bordia Das -- 7. Policy Interventions to Meet the MDG3 Challenge in Developing Countries: Experiences from Mexico / Miguel Szekely -- 8. Gender Mainstreaming: Making It Happen / Rekha Mehra, Geeta Rao Gupta -- Index. Review Citations: Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2009 pg. 160 (EAN 9780821374467, Paperback) Contributor Bio:  Buvinic, Mayra Buvinic is the Chief of the Social Development Division and the Women in Development Unit at the Inter-American Development Bank, and serves as special advisor on Violence at the IDB. Contributor Bio:  Morrison, Andrew R Andrew Morrison, an assistant professor of economics at Tulane University, has worked extensively on labor market issues in developing countries. In addition to his work on Africa, he has published articles on labor market structure, migration and urbanization in Latin America. Dr. Morrison is the first economist to quantify the GNP effects of interregional migration; for this work the Population Association of America honored him with the Dorothy Thomas Award in 1988.