Her research has focused on gender and development; international trade theories; and on engendering macroeconomics and international trade theories and policies. In 1994, with Diane Elson and Caren Grown, she founded the International Working Group on Gender, Macroeconomics and International Economics (GEM-IWG). She is the co-editor of the November 1995 special issue of World Development on Gender, Adjustment and Macroeconomics and the July 2000 special issue of World Development on Growth, Trade, Finance and Gender Inequalities. Between 1997-2000 she worked as Economic Advisor at UNDP's Social Development and Poverty Elimination Division in New York. She received her B.A. in Economics and Political Science from Yale University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University.