World Development Report 2012: Gender Equality and Development— A Commentary

is Senior Researcher at the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), Palais des Nations, 1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland; e-mail razavi@unrisd.org. She specializes in the gender dimensions of social development, with a particular focus on livelihoods and social policy. Her recent publications include The Gendered Impacts of Liberalization: Towards ‘Embedded Liberalism’? (Routledge, 2009), Workers in the Care Economy, edited with Silke Staab (International Labour Review, 2010), and Seen, Heard and Counted: Rethinking Care in a Development Context (edited special issue of Development and Change, 2011).