IMF policies and gender orders: The case of the poverty reduction and growth facility

Questioning Financial Governance from a Feminist Perspective

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 110-131

  Elson, Diane ^a   Warnecke, Tonia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b ROLLINS COLLEGE   (United States)

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