In this new volume from the International Food Policy Research Institute, economists, demographers, sociologists, and anthropologists collaborate in the study of how resources are allocated within households in developing countries and why it matters from a policy perspective. S…
Agricultural economics treatise on the subjective equilibrium economic theory of the family farm household - defines the utility function of the farm household and its decision making behaviour; examines the subjective equilibrium of farm households under a wide range of assumpt…
This title reconstructs the distinctive relationship between the house and masculinity in the 18th century; adds a missing piece to the history of the home, uncovering the hopes and fears men had for their homes and families.
The relationship between men and the domestic in eighteenth-century Britain has, until now, been obscure. The Little Republic rescues the engagement of men with the house from this obscurity, better equipping historians to understand masculinity, the domestic environment and dom…
This title reconstructs the distinctive relationship between the house and masculinity in the 18th century; adds a missing piece to the history of the home, uncovering the hopes and fears men had for their homes and families.
The 'feminisation of poverty' is viewed as a global trend, and of particular concern in developing regions. Yet although popularisation of the term may have raised women's visibility in development discourses and gone some way to 'en-gender' policies for poverty reduction, the c…
