DAWN´s first analysis made a significant impact at the UN Conference on Women in Nairobi in 1985, putting macro-economic issues firmly on the agenda of the women’s movement for the first time.

Published as a book written by Gita Sen and Caren Grown, “Development, Crises and Alternative Visions” is a South feminist critique of three decades of development, which highlighted the impacts of famine, debt, militarism and fundamentalism on women of the South and offered alternative visions