Women's Self-Employment as a Developmental Strategy: The Dual Constraints of Care Work and Aggregate Demand.
The promotion of self-employment through financial inclusion initiatives has been adopted as a means of harnessing the entrepreneurial and productive capacities of women within the neoliberal developmental policy framework. This study presents a simple analytical model in the Post-Keynesian traditio...
| Publicado en: | Feminist Economics Vol. 28; no. 3; pp. 56 - 84 |
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