Naila Kabeer is Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex. She is a social economist and has been involved in teaching, research and advisory work in the field of gender, poverty, population and social policy. Her published work includes Reversed Realities: Gender Hierarchies in Development Thought (1994) and The Power to Choose: Bangladeshi Women and Labour Market Decisions in London and Dhaka (2000) and, as editor, Global Perspectives on Gender Equality: Reversing the Gaze (2008) and Inclusive Citizenship: Meanings and Expressions (2005). She is also the author of a previous title in this series: Gender Mainstreaming in Poverty Eradication and the Millennium Development Goals (2003).

• List of Boxes and Tables List of Abbreviations and Acronyms Foreword 1. Risk, Vulnerability and Social Protection: International Perspectives 2. Gender and Trends in the Global Labour Force: New and Persisting Forms of Vulnerability 3. Gender, Life Course and Livelihoods: Analytical Framework and Empirical Insights 4. Preventing Child Labour, Promoting Education: Disrupting the Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty 5. Alternative Approaches to Employment-based Social Protection 6. Financial Services for Women in the Informal Economy: Protecting and Promoting Livelihoods 7. Pensions and Transfers: Social Protection in Old Age 8. The Indispensability of Voice: Organising for Social Protection in the Informal Economy 9. Towards a ‘Generative’ Model of Social Protection: Making the Links to Development Policy Bibliography About the Author Index

Naila Kabeer is Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex. She is a social economist and has been involved in teaching, research and advisory work in the field of gender, poverty, population and social policy. Her published work includes Reversed Realities: Gender Hierarchies in Development Thought (1994) and The Power to Choose: Bangladeshi Women and Labour Market Decisions in London and Dhaka (2000) and, as editor, Global Perspectives on Gender Equality: Reversing the Gaze (2008) and Inclusive Citizenship: Meanings and Expressions (2005). She is also the author of a previous title in this series: Gender Mainstreaming in Poverty Eradication and the Millennium Development Goals (2003).

• List of Boxes and Tables List of Abbreviations and Acronyms Foreword 1. Risk, Vulnerability and Social Protection: International Perspectives 2. Gender and Trends in the Global Labour Force: New and Persisting Forms of Vulnerability 3. Gender, Life Course and Livelihoods: Analytical Framework and Empirical Insights 4. Preventing Child Labour, Promoting Education: Disrupting the Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty 5. Alternative Approaches to Employment-based Social Protection 6. Financial Services for Women in the Informal Economy: Protecting and Promoting Livelihoods 7. Pensions and Transfers: Social Protection in Old Age 8. The Indispensability of Voice: Organising for Social Protection in the Informal Economy 9. Towards a ‘Generative’ Model of Social Protection: Making the Links to Development Policy Bibliography About the Author Index

Naila Kabeer is Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex. She is a social economist and has been involved in teaching, research and advisory work in the field of gender, poverty, population and social policy. Her published work includes Reversed Realities: Gender Hierarchies in Development Thought (1994) and The Power to Choose: Bangladeshi Women and Labour Market Decisions in London and Dhaka (2000) and, as editor, Global Perspectives on Gender Equality: Reversing the Gaze (2008) and Inclusive Citizenship: Meanings and Expressions (2005). She is also the author of a previous title in this series: Gender Mainstreaming in Poverty Eradication and the Millennium Development Goals (2003).

• List of Boxes and Tables List of Abbreviations and Acronyms Foreword 1. Risk, Vulnerability and Social Protection: International Perspectives 2. Gender and Trends in the Global Labour Force: New and Persisting Forms of Vulnerability 3. Gender, Life Course and Livelihoods: Analytical Framework and Empirical Insights 4. Preventing Child Labour, Promoting Education: Disrupting the Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty 5. Alternative Approaches to Employment-based Social Protection 6. Financial Services for Women in the Informal Economy: Protecting and Promoting Livelihoods 7. Pensions and Transfers: Social Protection in Old Age 8. The Indispensability of Voice: Organising for Social Protection in the Informal Economy 9. Towards a ‘Generative’ Model of Social Protection: Making the Links to Development Policy Bibliography About the Author Index