Diane Elson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 96242 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Diane Elson |
| PRENOMES | Diane |
| SOBRENOME | Elson |
| ASSINATURA | ELSON D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Essex |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 43 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 578 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 41 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1979 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Engendering Monetary Policy
Inflation-targeting monetary policy based on the New Keynesian Economic framework has been an obstacle to fiscal stimulus, employment, and growth, reducing public investment in equality supporting services and transfers, with disproportionate impacts for women. Empirical research highlights the gender-based distributional impacts of interest rate interventions via differential changes in employment, wages, and debt servicing burdens. Quantitative…
Forty Years of Debt Distress
Measuring Depletion
Nilüfer Çagatay 1955–2022 In Memoriam
Introduction to Special Issue on feminism and gender research in Japan
The articles in this Special Issue illuminate important dimensions of gender inequality in Japan; their relation to neoliberal policies; their implications for social reproduction; and the ways in which Japanese scholars are debating and analyzing these issues. They show that gender gaps are generally larger in Japan than in other OECD countries, and that fertility is well below replacement rate. They call for investment in democratized, decentra…
Intersections of gender and class in the distribution of income
This article considers the intersection of gender and class in the distribution of income. The first section applies a gender lens to reread Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century, showing how the analysis would be different if capitalism were recognized as not only patrimonial but also patriarchal. The second section discusses an OECD study that claimed, "More women in paid work means less income inequality," taking into account unpaid wo…
Recognize, Reduce, and Redistribute Unpaid Care Work
Rethinking Economic Policy for Social Justice
The dominant approach to economic policy has so far failed to adequately address the pressing challenges the world faces today: extreme poverty, widespread joblessness and precarious employment, burgeoning inequality, and large-scale environmental threats. This message was brought home forcibly by the 2008 global economic crisis. Rethinking Economic Policy for Social Justice shows how human rights have the potential to transform economic thinking…
Plan F
Plan F is being developed by the UK Women's Budget Group (which I chair), in conjunction with the Scottish Women's Budget Group. Both UKWBG and SWBG are networks of researchers, policy analysts, an
Transcending the Impact of the Financial Crisis in the United Kingdom
This paper sets out a framework for understanding the impacts of the financial crisis and its aftermath that is based on the idea of three interacting spheres: finance, production and reproduction. All of these spheres are gendered and globalised. The gendered impact of the current crisis is discussed in terms of the impact on unemployment, employment protection and security, public sector services, social security benefits, pensions, and the rea…
Human Rights and the Capabilities Approach
Public policies on water provision and early childhood education and care (Ecec)
Governments need to provide public finance to support services to reduce and redistribute unpaid work. However, while the financial costs of the required public investment are up front and highly visible; the (many) benefits are diffuse, spread over time, and include non-monetary as well as monetary benefits. This article focuses on two experiences from developing countries, in the water sector in Tanzania and early education and child care in Me…
Expenditure Incidence Analysis
Gender-disaggregated expenditure incidence analysis (EIA) is a tool for assessing the gender responsiveness of budgets and policies. However, to date there has been a limited take-up of gender-disaggregated EIA in policy and budget decision making. Using data from the 2007 Timor-Leste Living Standards Survey (TLLSS) and interviews and discussions with stakeholders, this paper conducts an EIA of expenditures on public schools and discusses the eff…
The reduction of the UK budget deficit
This paper contributes to new thinking in economics by employing a human rights perspective to examine the budget deficit reduction strategy of the UK coalition government, as set out in 2010 in the June budget and October Spending Review. Focusing on economic and social rights, the paper explains the human rights obligations of governments and key human rights principles. As examples of how they should be applied to examine the deficit reduction…
Social Reproduction in the Global Crisis
This chapter examines the social dimensions of the recent global economic crisis through the prism of social reproduction, allowing us to examine the invisible, unpaid parts of economies, as well as the much more visible paid parts. The crisis has been a crisis of capital accumulation, with falling investment, output and employment. But it has also been a rupture in social reproduction, understood as ?the process by which all the main relations i…
Economic Policy and Human Rights
Economic Policy and Human Rights presents a powerful critique of three decades of neoliberal economic policies, assessed from the perspective of human rights norms. In doing so, it brings together two areas of thought and action that have hitherto been separate: progressive economics concerned with promoting economic justice and human development; and human rights analysis and advocacy. Focussing on in-depth comparative case studies of the USA an…
Questioning financial governance from a feminist perspective
"Questioning Financial Governance from a Feminist Perspective brings together feminist economists and feminist political economists from different countries located in North America and Europe to analyze the 'strategic silence' about gender in fiscal and monetary policy, and financial regulation. This silence reflects a set of assumptions that the key instruments of financial governance are gender-neutral. This often masks the ways in which finan…
Human rights and the capabilities approach
Among several contesting views about the purpose of development and how progress should be evaluated, human rights and capabilities (or human development) stand out as two approaches that are concerned first and foremost with the well-being of individuals, their freedom, dignity and empowerment. These two approaches contrast sharply with the dominant development frameworks that emphasize economic growth as the essential objective. Though human ri…
Financial Regulation, Capabilities and Human Rights in the US Financial Crisis
This paper analyses the role of finance and financial regulation in shaping capabilities, in the context of the 2008 financial crisis in the USA, paying particular attention to the implications for capability to be adequately housed. It argues that public reasoning and public action to safeguard this capability can benefit from reference to the obligation to realize the human right to adequate housing. The paper contributes to two areas of discus…
Guest Editors' Note
Introduction
Gender and the global economic crisis in developing countries
This paper sets out a framework for thinking about the gender dimensions of the economic crisis. It considers the likely impact of the crisis, as well as the responses to it, on the part of both individuals and collectivities, in three spheres of the economy: finance; production; and reproduction. It identifies the kinds of ‘gender numbers’ that we need; sex-disaggregated statistics of various kinds. It also argues that we need to pay attention t…
Guest Editors' Note
Gender Equality and Economic Growth in the World Bank World Development Report 2006
This contribution examines how gender equality features in the World Bank's World Development Report 2006: Equity and Development, focusing on its conceptual framework, use of empirical evidence, and policy recommendations. It concludes that despite acknowledging that liberalization and privatization have been captured by elites for their own benefit, the report still clings to a neoclassical understanding of how markets and competition work. Mor…
Engendering Government Budgets in the Context of Globalization(s)
This article considers the strengths and weaknesses of attempts to 'engender' government budgets in the context of globalization, drawing on my own personal engagement in such attempts, and on the work of many gender budget initiatives (GBIs) all around the world. GBIs have sought to improve the distribution, adequacy and impact of government budgets at national, regional and local levels; and to secure greater transparency in the use of public m…
Labor Markets as Gendered Institutions
Nimble Fingers Make Cheap Workers
The idea that women's subordinate position stems from a lack of job opportunities, and can be ended by the provision of sufficient job opportunities, is deeply rooted and held by a wide spectrum of opinion, from international development agencies, government bureaux and mainstream Marxists to many women's organizations. Our work in the Workshop on the Subordination of Women in the process of development at the Institute of Development Studies, Su…
The Social Content of Macroeconomic Policies
Gender Awareness in Modeling Structural Adjustment
The economic, the political and the domestic
(1998). The economic, the political and the domestic: Businesses, states and households in the organisation of production. New Political Economy: Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 189-208
Gender and the global economic crisis in developing countries
This paper sets out a framework for thinking about the gender dimensions of the economic crisis. It considers the likely impact of the crisis, as well as the responses to it, on the part of both individuals and collectivities, in three spheres of the economy: finance; production; and reproduction. It identifies the kinds of ‘gender numbers’ that we need; sex-disaggregated statistics of various kinds. It also argues that we need to pay attention t…
Transcending the Impact of the Financial Crisis in the United Kingdom
This paper sets out a framework for understanding the impacts of the financial crisis and its aftermath that is based on the idea of three interacting spheres: finance, production and reproduction. All of these spheres are gendered and globalised. The gendered impact of the current crisis is discussed in terms of the impact on unemployment, employment protection and security, public sector services, social security benefits, pensions, and the rea…
Recognize, Reduce, and Redistribute Unpaid Care Work
Gender Equality and Economic Growth in the World Bank World Development Report 2006
This contribution examines how gender equality features in the World Bank's World Development Report 2006: Equity and Development, focusing on its conceptual framework, use of empirical evidence, and policy recommendations. It concludes that despite acknowledging that liberalization and privatization have been captured by elites for their own benefit, the report still clings to a neoclassical understanding of how markets and competition work. Mor…
Engendering Government Budgets in the Context of Globalization(s)
This article considers the strengths and weaknesses of attempts to 'engender' government budgets in the context of globalization, drawing on my own personal engagement in such attempts, and on the work of many gender budget initiatives (GBIs) all around the world. GBIs have sought to improve the distribution, adequacy and impact of government budgets at national, regional and local levels; and to secure greater transparency in the use of public m…
Introduction
People, development and international financial institutions
It Is now fifty years since an inter‐governmental conference at the small American town of Bretton Woods set up two new institutions and agreed new ‘rules of the game’ for the governance of the international economic system. For many people, ‘fifty years is enough’ and there is an international debate about ways to reshape the governance of the international economic system so that it becomes more ‘people‐friendly’. This article offers an interpr…
Gender equality, bilateral program assistance and structural adjustment
The Differentiation of Children's Labour in the Capitalist Labour Market
Expenditure Incidence Analysis
Gender-disaggregated expenditure incidence analysis (EIA) is a tool for assessing the gender responsiveness of budgets and policies. However, to date there has been a limited take-up of gender-disaggregated EIA in policy and budget decision making. Using data from the 2007 Timor-Leste Living Standards Survey (TLLSS) and interviews and discussions with stakeholders, this paper conducts an EIA of expenditures on public schools and discusses the eff…
Structural Adjustment With Gender Awareness
Intersections of gender and class in the distribution of income
This article considers the intersection of gender and class in the distribution of income. The first section applies a gender lens to reread Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century, showing how the analysis would be different if capitalism were recognized as not only patrimonial but also patriarchal. The second section discusses an OECD study that claimed, "More women in paid work means less income inequality," taking into account unpaid wo…
Plan F
Plan F is being developed by the UK Women's Budget Group (which I chair), in conjunction with the Scottish Women's Budget Group. Both UKWBG and SWBG are networks of researchers, policy analysts, an
The New International Division of Labour in the Textile and Garment Industry
The international division of employment in the clothing and textile industry has been changing in the last 20 years. Such employment has declined in developed market economies but increased in developing countries and centrally planned economies. It is a widely held view that this is a result of the internationalisation of the Babbage principle. This theory and other forces that may be operating are discussed and illustrated with a case study of…
The Brandt Report
The aim of this article is to develop a critique of the Brandt Report. It explores the way in which the recommendations of the Report are related to the assumptions and concepts from which the Report begins; and examines why these assumptions and concepts seem plausible to many socialists. The conclusion reached is that the Brandt Report conflates the danger to human survival with the danger to the survival of capitalism, and produces a strategy …
Public policies on water provision and early childhood education and care (Ecec)
Governments need to provide public finance to support services to reduce and redistribute unpaid work. However, while the financial costs of the required public investment are up front and highly visible; the (many) benefits are diffuse, spread over time, and include non-monetary as well as monetary benefits. This article focuses on two experiences from developing countries, in the water sector in Tanzania and early education and child care in Me…
Financial Regulation, Capabilities and Human Rights in the US Financial Crisis
This paper analyses the role of finance and financial regulation in shaping capabilities, in the context of the 2008 financial crisis in the USA, paying particular attention to the implications for capability to be adequately housed. It argues that public reasoning and public action to safeguard this capability can benefit from reference to the obligation to realize the human right to adequate housing. The paper contributes to two areas of discus…
Gender relations and economic issues
While most discussions of economic issues pay no explicit attention to gender relations, most economic policy is marked by male bias which provides women with an unequal access to resources. This situation exists because most economists, officials, and business managers lack the imagination to see the gender impact of economic issues and most women's groups and researchers lack the language to portray this connection. This article explores some a…
Reading Capital Politically
Which Way 'Out of the Ghetto
Which Way 'Out of the Ghetto
Nimble Fingers Make Cheap Workers
The idea that women's subordinate position stems from a lack of job opportunities, and can be ended by the provision of sufficient job opportunities, is deeply rooted and held by a wide spectrum of opinion, from international development agencies, government bureaux and mainstream Marxists to many women's organizations. Our work in the Workshop on the Subordination of Women in the process of development at the Institute of Development Studies, Su…
The Brandt Report
The aim of this article is to develop a critique of the Brandt Report. It explores the way in which the recommendations of the Report are related to the assumptions and concepts from which the Report begins; and examines why these assumptions and concepts seem plausible to many socialists. The conclusion reached is that the Brandt Report conflates the danger to human survival with the danger to the survival of capitalism, and produces a strategy …
The Differentiation of Children's Labour in the Capitalist Labour Market
Reading Capital Politically
The New International Division of Labour in the Textile and Garment Industry
The international division of employment in the clothing and textile industry has been changing in the last 20 years. Such employment has declined in developed market economies but increased in developing countries and centrally planned economies. It is a widely held view that this is a result of the internationalisation of the Babbage principle. This theory and other forces that may be operating are discussed and illustrated with a case study of…
Market Socialism or Socialization of the Market
The virtues of the market and the deficiencies of central planning have become common sense for many socialist economists, both in the capitalist countries and in those of ‘actually existing socialism’. Some spirited defences have recently been made of non-market forms of economic co-ordination, particularly by Ernest Mandel
Gender relations and economic issues
While most discussions of economic issues pay no explicit attention to gender relations, most economic policy is marked by male bias which provides women with an unequal access to resources. This situation exists because most economists, officials, and business managers lack the imagination to see the gender impact of economic issues and most women's groups and researchers lack the language to portray this connection. This article explores some a…
Pour la socialisation du marché
In the model sketched here, firms are self-managed and dependent on an office for controlling public property. They are self-financed, and may obtain funding from the office, subject to interest. They are connected to public information networks, financed through tax, which suplly price and wages committees with the information usually withdrawn by private markets. The role of these committees is to set standards. For the production goods market,…
Structural Adjustment With Gender Awareness
People, development and international financial institutions
It Is now fifty years since an inter‐governmental conference at the small American town of Bretton Woods set up two new institutions and agreed new ‘rules of the game’ for the governance of the international economic system. For many people, ‘fifty years is enough’ and there is an international debate about ways to reshape the governance of the international economic system so that it becomes more ‘people‐friendly’. This article offers an interpr…
Gender Awareness in Modeling Structural Adjustment
Gender equality, bilateral program assistance and structural adjustment
The economic, the political and the domestic
(1998). The economic, the political and the domestic: Businesses, states and households in the organisation of production. New Political Economy: Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 189-208
Labor Markets as Gendered Institutions
Gender at the Macroeconomic Level
The arguments presented here are a contribution to a gendered political economy in the sense that they foreground a set of activities which are constitutive of gender (as a system of social relations and a structuration of personal identity) but which are left in the background by analysis which is not gender-aware. The aim differs from that of most of the other chapters, in that it is not to present a political economy of gender inequality, i.e.…
The Social Content of Macroeconomic Policies
Gender Justice, Human Rights, and Neo‐Liberal Economic Policies
This chapter analyses the links between neo-liberal economic policies and women’s substantive enjoyment of human rights. It examines the association between two different discourses: human rights and economic efficiency, and the experience of women, particularly poor women in the era of neo-liberal economic policies. Alternative approaches to economic policy that would promote social justice for poor women are considered.
Engendering Government Budgets in the Context of Globalization(s)
This article considers the strengths and weaknesses of attempts to 'engender' government budgets in the context of globalization, drawing on my own personal engagement in such attempts, and on the work of many gender budget initiatives (GBIs) all around the world. GBIs have sought to improve the distribution, adequacy and impact of government budgets at national, regional and local levels; and to secure greater transparency in the use of public m…
Gender Equality and Economic Growth in the World Bank World Development Report 2006
This contribution examines how gender equality features in the World Bank's World Development Report 2006: Equity and Development, focusing on its conceptual framework, use of empirical evidence, and policy recommendations. It concludes that despite acknowledging that liberalization and privatization have been captured by elites for their own benefit, the report still clings to a neoclassical understanding of how markets and competition work. Mor…
Gender and the global economic crisis in developing countries
This paper sets out a framework for thinking about the gender dimensions of the economic crisis. It considers the likely impact of the crisis, as well as the responses to it, on the part of both individuals and collectivities, in three spheres of the economy: finance; production; and reproduction. It identifies the kinds of ‘gender numbers’ that we need; sex-disaggregated statistics of various kinds. It also argues that we need to pay attention t…
Guest Editors' Note
Economic Policy and Human Rights
Economic Policy and Human Rights presents a powerful critique of three decades of neoliberal economic policies, assessed from the perspective of human rights norms. In doing so, it brings together two areas of thought and action that have hitherto been separate: progressive economics concerned with promoting economic justice and human development; and human rights analysis and advocacy. Focussing on in-depth comparative case studies of the USA an…
Questioning financial governance from a feminist perspective
"Questioning Financial Governance from a Feminist Perspective brings together feminist economists and feminist political economists from different countries located in North America and Europe to analyze the 'strategic silence' about gender in fiscal and monetary policy, and financial regulation. This silence reflects a set of assumptions that the key instruments of financial governance are gender-neutral. This often masks the ways in which finan…
Human rights and the capabilities approach
Among several contesting views about the purpose of development and how progress should be evaluated, human rights and capabilities (or human development) stand out as two approaches that are concerned first and foremost with the well-being of individuals, their freedom, dignity and empowerment. These two approaches contrast sharply with the dominant development frameworks that emphasize economic growth as the essential objective. Though human ri…
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