Gender in the World Bank's poverty assessments: six case studies from Sub-Saharan Africa
Concern with poverty within the World Bank has ebbed and flowed over time. What is different about current thinking is that awareness of "women in development" and "gender and development" is far more pervasive. The gender and poverty relationship, which has been readily taken up by development agencies such as the World Bank, is far from straightforward, and there are concerns that objectives about unequal gender relations will become subordinatied to an agenda about increasing welfare.