Research Catalog

Title

Limits to productivity : improving women's access to technology and credit / International Center for Research on Women ; prepared by Ilsa Schumacher, Jennefer Sebstad and Mayra Buvinic for the Office of Women and Development, Bureau of Program and Policy Coordination, Agency for International Development under contract number AID/OTR-C-1801.

Author

Schumacher, Ilsa.

Publication

[Washington, D.C.?] : The Agency, [1980]

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Additional Authors

• Sebstad, Jennefer.
• Buvinić, Mayra.
• International Center for Research on Women.
• United States. Agency for International Development. Office of Women in Development.

Description

57, [8] p.; 28 cm.

Summary

Research paper on obstacles to rural women's access to agricultural credit and technology in developing countries - covers constraints such as the dual economy, sexual division of labour, insufficient knowhow and ineffective demand by women, programme planning focus of governments, bilateral aid and international organizations, choice of technology not adapted to women's needs, their participation in credit systems, etc., and includes technology and credit policy recommendations. Bibliography pp. 60 to 65.

Subject

• Women in rural development
• Women > Employment > Developing countries
• Sex discrimination in consumer credit
• Women in technology

Genre/Form

• bibliography.
• research paper.
• bibliographie.
• étude de recherche.
• bibliografía.
• estudio de investigación.

Note

• Cover title.
• "May 1980."

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. [60]-[65]

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

OCLC

• 9346973
• SCSB-11138317

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library