Human Capital in Gender and Development

Taylor & Francis

Human Capital in Gender and DevelopmentAuthor(s): Sydney Calkin\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138697348, 978-1138697348\nSynopsis\nHuman Capital in Gender and Development addresses timely feminist debates about the relationship between feminism, neoliberalism, and international development. The book engages with human capital theory, a labour economics theory associated with the Chicago School that now animates a wide range of political and economic governance. The book argues that human capital theory has been instrumental in constructing an economistic vision of gender equality as a tool for economic growth, and girls and women of the global South as the quintessential entrepreneurs of the post-global financial crisis era. \n\nThe books critique of human capital theory and its role in Gender and Development gives insights into the kinds of development interventions that typify the Gender Equality as Smart Ec.