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Lourdes Beneria

Professor

Graduate Fields

Research Focus

  • gender and development
  • labor markets
  • women's work
  • globalization
  • European integration
  • Latin American development
  • labor market informalization
  • poverty
  • Urban households and poverty in Bolivia and Ecuador
  • Labor market informalization and the changing landscapes of cities
  • Feminization of international migration and the care crisis in Europe.

Educational Background

  • Lic., University of Barcelona, Spain, 1961
  • M.Ph., Columbia University, 1974
  • Ph.D., Columbia University, 1975

Selected Publications

PubMed Listings
Books
  • Gender, Development and Globalization, Economics as if all People Mattered, Routledge 2003. Spanish translation published by Editorial Hacer, Barcelona 2005.
  • Editor (with Savitri Bisnath), Global Tensions. Challenges and Opportunites in the World Economy, Routledge 2003.
Articles
  • “The Crisis of Care, International Migration and Public Policy” forthcoming in Feminist Economics.
  • “From Harmony to Ccoperative Conflicts; Amartya Sen’s Contribution to Household Theory,” forthcoming in Ravi Kanbur and Kaushik Basu, eds., Arguments for a Better World. Essays in Honor of Amartya Sen, Vol. II: Ethics, Welfare and Measurement.
  • Spanish translation: De la “armonía” a los “conflictos cooperativos,” forthcoming in Araucaria (Complutense University, Madrid).
  • “Globalització, gènere i la transformació del rol de les dones,” (“Globalization, Gender and the Transformation of Women’s Roles,” Revista Catalana de Geografia, Fall 2008.
  •  “Labor Market Informalization, Gender and Social Protection: Reflections on Poor Urban Households in Bolivia, Ecuador and Thailand,” (with Maria Floro), in S. Razawi and S. Hassim, eds., Gender and Social Policy in a Global Context, Palgrave 2006 (with Maria Floro),