Prevention of obesity in women of reproductive age is widely recognised to be important
both for their health and for that of their offspring. Weight-control interventions, including …

What is a life worth? In the wake of eugenics, new quantitative racist practices that valued
life for the sake of economic futures flourished. In The Economization of Life, Michelle …

We study the effects of explosive growth in the Bangladeshi ready-made garments industry
on the lives on Bangladeshi women. We compare the marriage, childbearing, school …

Increasing attention to adolescent girls has generated an abundance of programs and a
growing body of research on adolescent girls in low-and middle-income countries. Despite …

This article traces the emergence of a politico-economic project of “transnational business
feminism”(TBF) over the past decade. This project–which is being developed by a coalition …

6. INTERVENTIONS TO ADDRESS CHILDHOOD OBESITY 6.1. Preconception and
pregnancy: reducing obesity risk 6.2. Obesity prevention in infants, preschool children …

This paper presents a poststructuralist, postcolonial and feminist interrogation of the 'Girl
Effect'. First coined by Nike inc, the 'Girl Effect'has become a key development discourse …

The five-year evaluation of a cash transfer program targeted to adolescent females points to
both the promise and limitations of cash transfers for persistent welfare gains. Conditional …

How and why are US transnational corporations investing in the lives, educations, and
futures of poor, racialized girls and women in the Global South? Is it a solution to ending …

Although girls are approximately half the youth population in developing countries, they
contribute less than their potential to the economy. The objective of this paper is to quantify …