Edited by Kartik C. Roy, Clement A. Tisdell, and Hans C. Blomqvist Praeger Paperback . Westport, Conn. 1999 . 256 pages LC .
Economic development is supposed to remove impediments to the improvement in women's status.
In some developing countries researchers have found that instead of lessening the forces of restrictions, economic development may, in fact, have strengthened them. The editors call for a greater involvement of women as active participants in the process of dismantling social, legal, and institutional barriers to women's development. Its editors and other contributors are fully aware of the crucial relation between the status of women and successful and sustainable economic development . . . Inc. All rights reserved.