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Group of feminists reintepreting macroeconomics: Assessing & Rebuilding Progress Through Women's Knowledge

The CASABLANCA Dream is an initiative of women from the South, activists and academics, seeking for solutions in order to empower women who carry the growing burden of world wide poverty.

ASSESSING & REBUILDING PROGRESS THROUGH WOMEN'S KNOWLEDGE

CASABLANCA PROCESS

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Contact: Devaki Jain devakijain@gmail.com

THE CASABLANCA PROCESS

The Starting Point:

Entry Points: The Initiative:

"We want women to walk out of poverty." With this task Devaki Jain invited a group of women thinkers to Casablanca in January 2007. The meeting was intended to see if there could be a consensus on both aspects, first: Is there a crisis? Is there a cause for concern? and second: Should we react? Can we react? Can we bring up any new ideas, new frameworks to deal with this situation? How to build the momentum to implement them? Our meeting was only to crack the egg shell - not to cook the omelette. And to that extent the two and a half days in Casablanca did achieve its purpose. The underlying consensus in the group was that theory, institutions, practices, policy need a revision, reconstruction, remodelling in the context of or in response to the terrible condition of those who are hungry - who lack the fundamentals. To further specify the first round of a follow up or an outline for discussion the group broke up into two:

Macro-economic ideas and how to transform them to be more human and enabling of justice

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