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Bina Agarwal | |
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.jpg) Agarwal in 2012 | |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Academic career | |
| Field | Development economics[1] |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge (B.A., M.A.) University of Delhi (Ph.D.) |
| Awards | Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize 1996, Edgar Graham Book Prize 1996, The K. H. Batheja Award 1995–96, Leontief Prize 2010 |
| Notes | |
Bina Agarwal is an Indian development economist and Professor of Development Economics and Environment at the Global Development Institute at The University of Manchester. She has written extensively on land, livelihoods and property rights; environment and development; the political economy of gender; poverty and inequality; legal change; and agriculture and technological transformation.
She is the author of an award-winning book, A Field of One's Own: Gender and Land Rights in South Asia, which has had an impact on governments, NGOs, and international agencies in promoting women's rights in land and property.[2] This work has also inspired research in Latin America and globally.[3]
- ^ "Enotes page on Bina Agarwal"[dead link]
- ^ Agarwal, Bina (1994). A field of one's own: gender and land rights in South Asia. Cambridge England New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521429269.
- ^ "Notes on contributors". Feminist Economics. 9 (2–3): 333–335. 2003. doi:10.1080/1354570032000114554. S2CID 216645024.