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Podcast: The Purse Podcast
Episode: #101: Why the GDP measure is damaging to women and how to move beyond it with Anam Parvez Butt
Description: Anam Parvez Butt is a Pakistani feminist economist who currently works as the Head of Research at Oxfam GB where she works with others to develop and implement Oxfam’s research agendas on care and informal work, fragility and conflict and climate justice.Â
In particular, the focus areas of her research include gender and macroeconomic policies, the care economy, feminist economic alternatives including metrics that challenge the neoliberal logic of growth, social norms and ending violence against women and girls (eVAWG).
She is deeply committed to integrating intersectional feminist and decolonial approaches in research, learning from...