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By: Kristina

Kristina — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 10:46:54 +0000

I think what keeps care off the agenda is the neoliberal market economy, in which states and development cooperation all ultimately serve the market. Putting care on the agenda costs money – it means changing the focus of states from helping the economy to helping people, an unthinkable thought in the current climate of austerity, cutting down public services in order to save banks etc.
But that is also what makes it so important to stick to care. Other issues, like economic participation, land rights etc. easily become policy issues because they can easily be instrumentalized by the economy, e.g. we need to give women land rights, so they can invest in land or sell it to investors, in any case it will help the economy. Or as the World Bank puts it “Gender Equality is Smart Economics”. But to really adress care, would mean a complete change of pardigm, recognizing that work that is not per se profitable is also work. It would mean that states would have to revert to serving people rather than serving markets etc.

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