Development Seminar

The David Morrison Lecture 2012: Naila Kabeer on "Microfinance and Social Mobilisation: Alternative Models of Social Change"

Naila Kabeer is Professor of Development Studies in the University of London at the School of Oriental and African Studies. A prolific writer, Naila Kabeer has written, edited or co-edited over 25 books, has written numerous advisory reports, and has published more than 25 book chapters or articles since 2000.  Of her many publications, she is probably best known for three: Mainstreaming Gender Equality in Poverty Eradication and the Millennium Development Goals: A Handbook for Policy Makers; The Power to Choose: Bangladeshi Women and Labour Market Decisions in London and Dhaka; and Reversed Realities: Gender Hierarchies in Development Thought.  Her most recent books areMainstreaming Gender and Social Protection in the Informal Economy andGlobal Perspectives on Gender Equality: Reversing the Gaze, which she co-edited with Agneta Stark.