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Assuming women’s empowerment would accelerate the pace of social change in rural Nepal, the World Bank urged the Nepali government to undertake a “Gender Activities Project” within an ongoing long-term water-engineering scheme. The author, an anthropologist specializing in bureaucratic organizations and gender studies, was hired to monitor the project. Analyzing her own experience as a “development expert,” she demonstrates how the professed goal of “women’s empowerment” is a pretext for promoting the interests of local elites. She demonstrates how a project intended to benefit women fails to provide them with any of the promised resources.
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- anthropology
- Asia
- Bank
- Development Studies
- Economics
- gender
- Gender studies, gender groups
- Gender studies: women
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- nepal
- Social groups
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
- Society & culture: general
- Society & Social Sciences
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- Women
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