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Suitable for economists, sociologists, development workers, and activists, this book highlights the key issue of how the role of women in economic development has or has not changed over the past decades in developing countries. It covers topics ranging from women and inequality, international and national migration, to conflict, HIV and AIDS.

In this work, the author reviews 70 years of work and writing on development economics and its relation to her own experience, from government planner in Denmark during the World War II, via the United Nations, to consultant concerned with today's problems of the Third World.