IDeA Debate Articles #1
Diverse development models and strategies revisited
A special contribution to the 12th AWID International Forum
This collection of articles aims to provoke further analysis on other ways to think about development and organization of the economy. These pieces highlight the need to unpack the understanding that development (in both theory and practice) is neither a rigid nor monolithic concept—but rather, an economic, social, political, and cultural process. As feminists and women's rights advocates, we need to recreate, reformulate, and rethink development at the global, regional, and local level to advance gender equality and women's rights and justice. This collection of articles is a contribution from AWID's strategic initiative Influencing Devleopment Actors and Practices for Women's Rights (IDeA) to the 12th AWID International Forum (Istanbul, Turkey, 19-22 April 2012) and beyond
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