01534nam a22001577a 4500020002200000082002000022100001700042245007200059260004000131300001600171504005500187520099900242650007801241650002501319650003201344  a978-93-528-0771-0  a305.4208bJAI-C  aJain, Devaki  aClose encounters of another kindb: women and development economics  a New DelhIbSage Publicationsc2018  a xxv, 398p.  aincludes bibliography, index and about the author.  aClose Encounters of Another Kind: Women and Development Economics brings together Devaki Jain’s essays which engage with public policy, development economics and women. In the 1970s and 1980s, as a fallout of the First World Conference of Women, held in Mexico in 1975, then the Women’s Decade (1975–85), followed by the Second World Conference in 1985 in Nairobi, governments energized their bureaucracies to address women’s inclusion in development programmes. Thereby began the work of gendering development, and as a result of challenging the existing ideas, projects related to the design of development policies and programmes. However, most of these efforts were couched in the knowledge and experience of the global North since the efforts were largely led by the Northern intellectual community. In this volume therefore, Professor Jain highlights the ways in which the design of public policy has ignored the lived experience of what was being offered in India as development.  aEconomic Development vWomen and Development zFeminist Economics - India  aDeveloping countries  aEconomic developmentvWomen