Faculty Profile

Lourdes Beneria joined the CRP Department in 1987 and holds a joint appointment with Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies. She has a doctorate in economics, and her work and multiple publications have focused on issues related to labor and the informal economy, women's work, gender and development, globalization, and Latin American development. More recently, her research has concentrated on the study of:

• 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.

She is also editing a volume for Edgar Elgar Publishers that includes the most prominent published articles on feminist economics. Her publications include books (Gender, Development and the Global Economy and Global Tensions, edited with Savitri Bisnath) and many articles in journals, edited books, and the popular press. Parallel to her academic work, Beneri­a has been involved in activities of international organizations such as the International Labor Organization (ILO), United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). She served on the International Advisory Committee for the UNIFEM report on World's Women's Progress/2000; she was a member of the International Advisory Board for the ILO's Global Programme on Socioeconomic Security (2000-2004); and, she is a current member of UNDP's Directory of Appointed Experts on Poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean. She has also collaborated with activist organizations and international solidarity groups. She has lectured widely and participated in international conferences and meetings in many countries. At present, she distributes her academic year between Ithaca, NY, and Barcelona, Spain, and is working on a comparative study of policies to balance family and labor market work with an emphasis on Spain and Latin America.

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
• Editor (with Neema Kudva), Rethinking Labor Market Informalization: Poverty, Precarious Jobs and Social Protection, Ithaca, NY: The Internet-First University Press, 2006

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 "armonia" a los "conflictos cooperativos," forthcoming in Araucaria (Complutense University, Madrid).

• "Globalitzacio genere i la transformacio 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),
• Editor (with Diana Strassmann and Ann Mari May) of the 3-volume book Feminist Economics for the 21st Century, forthcoming: Edgar Elgar Publishers
  

• Gender and International Development
• Globalization and Development
• Gender, Race, Class, and Urban Planning
• International Institutions
• Globalization and Gender
• The Political Economy of Women's Work
• Economics for Planners

• The Institute for the Social Sciences
• The Mario Einaudi Center for International Students
• The Institute for European Studies
• International Studies in Planning