Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Marmara University, Journal of the Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences, cilt.30, ss.417-442, 2011 (Hakemli Dergi)
This
article treats the question of women in one of the most important development
agencies, the World Bank, especially concerning the effect of its Structural
Adjustment Programs (SAPs) towards the developing world. The major idea behind
the article is that women are those who suffer the most from the adverse
effects of the neo-liberal agenda that is supported by these programs. It is
thus discussed that The World Bank, as long as it does not question its own
goals remaining in neo-liberal thinking, there is not a chance that this
institution would indeed play a positive role beyond the rhetoric regarding
women. While analyzing this problematic, throughout the article, the
theoretical evolution regarding women and development from the “Women in
Development” (WID) to arrive to a sense of “Gender and Development” (GAD) and
finally to the “Gender Efficiency” approaches are as well to be examined.