Naila Kabeer

Naila Kabeer
Native name
 নাদিয়া কবির
Born 28 January 1950
East Bengal (now Bangladesh)
Nationality British
Institution Department for International Development
London School of Economics
School of Oriental and African Studies
Field Social economy
School or tradition
 Socioeconomics
Alma mater London School of Economics

Naila Kabeer (Bengali: নাদিয়া কবির; born 28 January 1950)[1] is a Bangladeshi-born British social economist, research fellow and writer. She works primarily on poverty, gender and social policy issues. Her research interests include gender, poverty, social exclusion, labour markets and livelihoods, social protection, focussed on South and South East Asia.

Early life

Kabeer was born and brought up in East Bengal (now Bangladesh) and she was an only child.[2]

In 1979, Kabeer did her PhD fieldwork in a village in Bangladesh.[3] In 1985, she completed her PhD in Economics at London School of Economics, after her undergraduate and master's degree in Economics.[2]

Career

From 1986 to 2010, Kabeer was a Professorial Fellow at Institute of Development Studies whilst working part-time as a Senior Research Fellow at Department for International Development.[4] She has collaborated with United Nations Research Institute For Social Development (UNRISD).[5] She was the Kerstin Hesselgren Professor at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden in between 2004–2005 and senior sabaticant with IDRC Regional Office in South Asia between 2005–2006.[6] She has also worked as a Senior Research Fellow at the Department for International Development, UK 2009–2010. In October 2013, she joined the Gender Institute at the London School of Economics as Professor of Development Studies.[6][7]

Kabeer has been active in developing frameworks and methodologies for integrating gender concerns into policy and planning.[4] She is a social economist and works primarily on poverty, gender and social policy issues.[5] Her research interests include gender, poverty, social exclusion, labour markets and livelihoods, social protection and citizenship in the context of globalization, with a focus on South and South East Asia.[7][8] She has been active in developing frameworks and methodologies for integrating gender concerns into policy and planning and has experience of training and advisory work with governments, bilateral and multilateral agencies and NGOs[4] (including Oxfam, ActionAid, Women for Women International,[7] BRAC, PRADAN and Nijera Kori).[6] as well as for a number of international development agencies (including the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), UNICEF, World Bank, UN Women,[7] SIDA.[9] and North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD).[6] and DIFD.[9]

Kabeer is the author of numerous books and journal publications.[9] She is the author of Reversed Realities: Gender Hierarchies in Development Thought, Vero, 1994 and The Power to Choose: Bangladeshi Women and Labour Market Decisions in London and Dhaka, Verso 2000.[5] She collaborated with UNRISD for the programme Social Effects of Globalization and wrote three papers: Gender, Demographic Transition and the Economics of Family Size: Population Policy for a Human-Centred Development in 1996; The Conditions and Consequences of Choice: Reflections on the Measurement of Women's Empowerment in 1999; and Leaving the Rice Fields but Not the Countryside: Gender, Livelihood Diversification and Pro-Poor Growth in Rural Viet Nam in 2000. For the UNRISD programme Gender and Development, she co-edited a Routledge/UNRISD book Global Perspectives on Gender Equality: Reversing the Gaze in 2007.[10][5] Kabeer has worked with the United Nations Division for the Advancement for Women (DAW) as the lead author on The World Survey on Women and Development in 2009.[4] For the UNRISD programme Social Policy and Development, she co-edited another Routledge/UNRISD volume "Social Protection As Development Policy: Asian Perspectives" in 2010.[5]

Kabeer is currently on advisory editorial committee for the journals Feminist Economics, Development and Change, Gender and Development and on the board of the Feminist Review Trust.[6][7] She is on the Advisory Committee for Better Work.[9]

She is currently engaged in research on social protection strategies and struggles for citizenship among workers in the informal economy.[4]

Selected bibliography

Books

Chapters in books

Journal articles

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Kabeer, Naila". Library of Congress. Retrieved 15 August 2014. CIP t.p. (Naila Kabeer) data sheet (born January 28, 1950)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Prof. Naila Kabeer: Reflections on Researching Women's Empowerment, SOAS, University of London". soasuniversity. 28 January 2013. Retrieved 1 March 2014.
  3. ↑ "Naila Kabeer: South Asia's 'Daughter Deficit'". IDRCCRDI. 7 November 2011. Retrieved 1 March 2014.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 "Naila Kabeer". Institute of Development Studies. Retrieved 1 March 2014.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 "Naila Kabeer". UNRISD. Retrieved 1 March 2014.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 "Tracking the Gender Politics of the Millennium Development Goals: from the Millennium Declaration to the post-MDG consultations". LSE – London School of Economics and Political Science. 2 October 2013. Retrieved 1 March 2014.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 "Ninth Confirmed Speaker: Naila Kabeer". LSESU-UCL Economics Conference 2013/14. 4 November 2013. Retrieved 1 March 2014.
  8. ↑ "Faculty". Gender Institute. Retrieved 1 March 2014. Naila Kabeer
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 "Naila Kabeer joins Better Work Advisory Committee". Better Work. 28 March 2013. Retrieved 1 March 2014.
  10. ↑ Kabeer, Naila; Stark, Agneta; Magnus, Edda (2008). Global perspectives on gender equality reversing the gaze. New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780203938386.

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