scholarly journals The COVID-19 Virus Wears Stiletto: Review of Gendered Socio-economic Impacts and Implications of the Corona virus Pandemic on Women and Girls in Zimbabwe

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 380-387
Author(s):  
Ruvarashe Chigiya-Mujeni
Keyword(s):  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Multiple Roles ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Global North ◽  
Women And Girls ◽  
The Rich ◽  
The Impact ◽  
North And South ◽  
Desk Review

Background: With its ability to mutate and take charge of its hosts’ respiratory organs, COVID-19 has ravaged the global north and south alike. The world’s greatest economies are crumbling and death tolls continue to rise exponentially. The most recent strain of the coronavirus has spread like wildfire, sparing neither the rich nor the poor. It is pertinent, however, to note that natural disasters do not affect members of society unilaterally. Women, children and the disabled interact with global and national disasters differently, highlighting the urgent need to take cognizance of the various elements that constitute the measures drafted and implemented to tackle the spread and impact of these disasters. Objective:This paper seeks to demonstrate these intricacies based on the webinar seminar held in March 2020 by UN Women in Zimbabwe and discuss the impact and implications of this virus on women and girls in Zimbabwe and bring out the challenges faced as they fight the virus in various socioeconomic settings Methods: A desk review approach was used to highlight the various gender dimensions surrounding the coronavirus and its implications on women and girls in Zimbabwe. Results: Women, due to their multiple roles and biological makeup, are more vulnerable to succumb to this disease and besides their biological disposition women are impacted differently and negatively by the pandemic. Conclusions: There is a need to take a holistic approach in dealing with issues of the pandemic without ignoring the fact that women are on the receiving end. Implications: This paper is useful to policy makers, institutions working on COVID-19 and government to take necessary actions. Originality: This paper is original and not sent anywhere else for the publication.

Reimagining Global Abortion Politics

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fiona Bloomer ◽  
Claire Pierson ◽  
Sylvia Estrada Claudio
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Reproductive Justice ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Abortion Law ◽  
Global North ◽  
Abortion Politics ◽  
Human Rights Norms ◽  
The Impact ◽  
North And South

What are the contemporary issues in abortion politics globally? What factors explain variations in access to abortion between and within different countries? This text provides a transnationally focused, interdisciplinary analysis of trends in abortion politics using case studies from around the global north and south. It considers how societal influences, such as religion, nationalism and culture, impact abortion law and access. It explores the impact of international human rights norms, the increasing displacement of people due to conflict and crisis and the role of activists on law reform and access. The book concludes by considering the future of abortion politics through the more holistic lens of reproductive justice. Utilising a unique interdisciplinary approach, this book provides a major contribution to the knowledge base on abortion politics globally. It provides an accessible, informative and engaging text for academics, policy makers and readers interested in abortion politics.

scholarly journals The gendered effects of entrepreneurialism in contrasting contexts

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Malin Tillmar ◽  
Helene Ahl ◽  
Karin Berglund ◽  
Katarina Pettersson
Keyword(s):  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Careful Analysis ◽  
Economic Consequences ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Social ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
Global North ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Experiences Of Women ◽  
North And South

Purpose Contrasting Sweden and Tanzania, this paper aims to explore the experiences of women entrepreneurs affected by entrepreneurialism. This study discusses the impact on their position in society and on their ability to take feminist action. Design/methodology/approach This paper analysed interviews conducted in the two countries over 15 years, using a holistic perspective on context, including its gendered dimensions. Findings The results amount to a critique of entrepreneurialism. Women in Sweden did not experience much gain from entrepreneurship, while in Tanzania results were mixed. Entrepreneurialism seems unable to improve the situation for women in the relatively well-functioning economies in the global north, where it was designed. Research limitations/implications In mainstream entrepreneurship studies, there is a focus on the institutional context. From the analysis, it is apparent that equal attention must be given to the social and spatial contexts, as they may have severe material and economic consequences for entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship. The paper raises questions for further studies on the gendering of markets in different contexts, as well as questions on the urban-rural dimension. Practical implications In Sweden, marketisation of welfare services led to more women-owned businesses, but the position of women did not improve. The results strongly convey the need for a careful analysis of the pre-existing context, before initiating reforms. Originality/value The paper adds to the understanding of context in entrepreneurship studies: Africa is largely an underexplored continent and contrasting North and South is an underexplored methodological approach. This paper further extends and develops the model of gendered contexts developed by Welter et al. (2014).

scholarly journals The Equity Dimension of Climate Change: Perspectives From the Global North and South

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 283-286
Author(s):  
Mark Seasons
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Action Planning ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Thematic Issue ◽  
Existing Problems ◽  
Climate Action ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Global North ◽  
Local Impacts ◽  
North And South

The articles in this thematic issue represent a variety of perspectives on the challenges for equity that are attributable to climate change. Contributions explore an emerging and important issue for communities in the Global North and Global South: the implications for urban social equity associated with the impacts caused by climate change. While much is known about the technical, policy, and financial tools and strategies that can be applied to mitigate or adapt to climate change in communities, we are only now thinking about who is affected by climate change, and how. Is it too little, too late? Or better now than never? The articles in this thematic issue demonstrate that the local impacts of climate change are experienced differently by socio-economic groups in communities. This is especially the case for the disadvantaged and marginalized—i.e., the poor, the very young, the aged, the disabled, and women. Ideally, climate action planning interventions should enhance quality of life, health and well-being, and sustainability, rather than exacerbate existing problems experienced by the disadvantaged. This is the challenge for planners and anyone working to adapt to climate change in our communities.

Comment: African Arts and Political Science

1962 ◽  
Vol 5 (02) ◽  
pp. 27-29
Author(s):  
James S. Coleman
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Social Stratification ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
Political Factors ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Stratification System ◽  
The Impact

The study of Africa has helped to further several healthy trends in the development of the discipline of political science. Confrontation with the rich variety of structural forms and modes of human expression of contemporary Africa has compelled the political analyst to look beyond the narrow “political” realm and conventional “political” structures for a more complete understanding and explanation of political phenomena. This African impact upon the discipline has come at a most propitious time—a time of intensive self-criticism from which at least three new emphases in research are beginning to emerge. One is the holistic approach reflected in efforts to classify and to compare political systems as wholes. A second approach, obviously related to the first but independently pursued by its proponents, is an ever-increasing explicit concern with non-political factors (e. g., the family, voluntary associations, the economic system, the social stratification system, cultural values, and so forth) as they may be related to and effect the political system and political behavior. Here, the impact of other disciplines, and particularly sociology, anthropology and psychology, is clearly manifest not only in the type of data gathered but in such neologisms as “political socialization” and “political acculturation.”

Writing national histories of sociology: Methods, approaches and visions

2021 ◽  
pp. 144078332110061
Author(s):  
Fran M Collyer ◽  
Ben Manning
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
History Of Sociology ◽  
History Of ◽  
Global North ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Australian History ◽  
The Impact ◽  
North And South

There has been a renewal of interest in the writing of national histories of sociology, with dozens of histories recently published in both the global North and South. Despite this, there has been a dearth of discussion about the methods and methodologies appropriate to such a task. Indeed, few histories of sociology, and fewer still national histories of sociology, explicitly address methodology. In this study, we review the literature on histories of sociology from a variety of countries, focusing on how the authors have approached the writing of history, and their implicit use of methods and methodologies. We suggest the use of a content analysis as an additional, though perhaps unusual, method of historiography, and apply this in the case of an Australian history of sociology. Our content analysis reveals both similarities and differences in the Australian approach, indicating the impact of settler-colonialism on Australian sociology and its historiography.

scholarly journals Alleviating Poverty

2015 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ajay Phatak
Keyword(s):  
Standard Of Living ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The World ◽  
Employment Generation ◽  
The Rich ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Viable Approach ◽  
The Masses ◽  
The Impact

This essay is focused on an important subject discussed all over the country and the world, especially in political circles and among policymakers. There is a need established that to be able to pull individuals and communities out of poverty, we need that, meaningful employment is generated for a very large number of people. World over, certain approaches have been used by the policy makers which seem to increase the divide between the haves and have-nots. The policy of industrialization is leading nations into widening the gap between rich and the poor. It is also creating undesirable side effects by way of ‘pollution’ and depletion of resources at an ever increasing pace. This situation leads to the author’s belief that something is not right. Such policies will not lead to sustainable livelihoods for masses. Hence this attempt to explore alternative policies, which could provide a viable approach to alleviating poverty. Poverty alleviation is indeed a noble goal. All of us must also be seriously concerned about the difference in the standard of living between the rich and the poor. Moreover, our objective must be to see how the masses can live well and peacefully. Around the world and within our country, being unemployed is not the best state to be in. Employment in this context is gainful occupation. The impact of such unemployment has been disastrous. This has led to militancy on one hand and ongoing unrest in many a city on the other. The way forward, as proposed since many decades and being followed incessantly, is “consumerism” to help us get out of this mess. Industrial mode of employment generation has been linked to production and productivity. But all aspects of Industrial production are linked to use of natural resources to produce intermediate goods. This means any additional employment generated would dip further into the natural resource reserves. Can one think of a very different model of generating employment? Employment which does not dip into the reserves? Employment that can restore biological resources? There seems to be an opportunity for more thinking at the policy level to understand the root causes of unemployment and how we can tackle these for creating employment that can sustain, resulting in sustainable elimination of poverty.

scholarly journals TAMING PLATFORM CAPITALISM: STRUGGLES FROM THE GLOBAL SOUTH MEET STRUGGLES FROM THE GLOBAL NORTH

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arturo Arriagada ◽  
Mark Graham ◽  
Ursula Huws ◽  
Janaki Srinivasan ◽  
Macarena Bonhomme ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Global South ◽  
Job Quality ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Global North ◽  
Global Platform ◽  
The Impact ◽  
North And South ◽  
Platform Economy

This panel brings together scholars whose work seeks to tame platform capitalism understanding how the lives of platform workers are affected by digital platforms. Research on platform labor has been mostly done in the global north, as well as in relation to global platforms like Uber or Amazon (Rosenblat 2019; Scholz 2016). Thus, the panelists, moreover, explore how the lives of platform workers can be improved within the global platform economy by analyzing workers’ subjectivities in relation to platforms and the impact of technologies in job quality. To achieve this, this panel brings together scholars from global north and south countries that will map the complexities and subjectivities of platform workers in order to tame platform capitalism. We present a set of articles that address: (1) regulatory resistance that clarifies and redefines the rules that platforms need to abide by; (2) bottom-up resistance of platform workers who seek to organize, subvert, and build alternatives; (3) the ways that action research can support either of those initiatives to ultimately tame some of the worst excesses of platform capitalism.

Impact of globalization on income inequality in Asian emerging economies

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (1/2) ◽  
pp. 44-57
Author(s):  
Kashif Munir ◽  
Mahnoor Bukhari
Keyword(s):  
Income Inequality ◽  
Emerging Economies ◽  
Financial Integration ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Financial Globalization ◽  
Trade Restrictions ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Rich ◽  
The Impact

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of three modes of globalization, i.e. trade globalization, financial globalization and technological globalization, separately on income inequality on the Asian emerging economies. Design/methodology/approach The study uses Hecksher–Ohlin and the Stolper–Samuelson theorem as a theoretical model for the relationship between globalization and income inequality. The study uses pooled least square (POLS) and instrumental variable least square (IVLS) estimation technique but prefers the IVLS over POLS due to the problems of omitted variable biased and endogeneity. Due to unavailability of data for all the Asian emerging economies, the study uses the following 11 countries, i.e. Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Singapore, South Korea and Thailand, from 1980 to 2014 for the trade and technological globalization model and from 1990 to 2014 for the financial globalization model. Findings Trade globalization significantly contributes to reduce income inequality in the Asian emerging economies. The impact of financial globalization on income inequality suggests that financial integration causes an increase in income inequality. Therefore, the benefits of financial globalization are not evenly distributed among the rich and the poor. The impact of technological globalization significantly contributes in the reduction of income inequality. Practical implications Government has to invest in research and development activities, establish efficient financial system, reduce trade restrictions and provide subsidies that help to increase the volume of trade. Originality/value This study contributes in the existing literature by analyzing the impact of trade globalization, financial globalization and technological globalization on income inequality in Asian emerging economies. The study provides useful guidelines to policy makers and governments to make effective policies in relation to globalization and income inequality that lead toward economic growth and reducing income inequality.

scholarly journals IMPACT OF FOREIGN AIDS ON POVERTY ALLEVIATION IN NIGERIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 102-111
Author(s):  
Adebayo Abiola Georgina ◽  
Afolayan Olufunmilayo T.
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Aid ◽  
Poverty Alleviation ◽  
Inflation Rate ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Household Consumption ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
Level Of Significance ◽  
The Impact

The aim of the study is to examine the impact of foreign aid on poverty alleviation in Nigeria over the period of 1990 to 2017. Data were collected from UNCTAD World Bank database and CBN Statistical Bulletin. Consequently, Cointegration, DOLS and Granger Causality techniques were utilized to address the objective of the study. The major findings are summarized as follow: Foreign aid has not led to poverty alleviation in Nigeria. Similarly, FDI has a negative impact on household consumption per capita and not significant at 10% level of significance. This implies that FDI does not reduce poverty in Nigeria. In addition, there is an existence of insignificant positive relationship between inflation rate and household consumption per capita in Nigeria. Furthermore, there is a unidirectional causality which runs from foreign aid to household consumption per capita. However, there is no feedback relationship between foreign aid and FDI, likewise FDI and household consumption per capita. Also, there is a unidirectional causal relationship flowing from inflation rate to household consumption per capita. Finally, due to the findings it is recommended that since foreign aid has no reducing impact on poverty in Nigeria, the policy makers should not depend on foreign aid as the only means of combating poverty in Nigeria. Therefore, a holistic approach for tackling the challenge of poverty in Nigeria is suggested and should be embraced.

scholarly journals Measuring and Understanding Unpaid Care and Domestic Work: Household Care Survey Toolkit

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucia Rost ◽  
Amber Parkes ◽  
Andrea Azevedo
Keyword(s):  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Domestic Work ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Survey Tool ◽  
Unpaid Care ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Care Survey ◽  
Women And Girls ◽  
Context Specific ◽  
The Impact

This toolkit provides guidance on using Oxfam’s Household Care Survey (HCS) methodology, which was developed by Oxfam as part of the WE-Care initiative to transform the provision of unpaid care and domestic work (UCDW). UCDW underpins all our lives yet is overwhelmingly provided by women and girls. Recognising UCDW is essential for any initiative that aims to understand and address gender inequality. The HCS is a quantitative survey tool that generates context-specific evidence on how women, men and children spend their time, how care is provided, by whom, and the main factors that affect people’s responsibilities for UCDW, such as access to care services, infrastructure and social norms. The HCS can be used to generate a baseline, or to measure the impact of a specific policy or programme. The methodology can be integrated into different projects with different objectives and adjusted for use in various contexts. The HCS toolkit is designed to be used by development practitioners, policy makers, employers, academics and researchers. Part A provides guidance for planning, collecting, analysing and using HCS data. Part B provides guidance for understanding, adjusting and using the HCS questions. Both sections should be read before undertaking the survey.

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