Includes bibliographical references.

Contents: Women and poverty in the 1990's: the responses of women in South Africa / Fatima Meer -- Structural adjustment in Zimbabwe: the way forward for low income urban women? / Nazneen Kanji -- Using the courts to obtain relief: Akan women and family courts in Ghana / Gwendolyn Mikell -- Women and poverty in urban Latin America: Mexican and Costa Rican experiences / Sylvia H. Chant -- Women's survival strategies in urban areas: Caricom and Guyana / Sybil Patterson -- Housing and household survival strategies in urban areas: a case study of the Solanda settlement, Quito, Ecuador / Lillia Rodriguez -- Strong Detroit women in global perspective: their struggle for university degrees and 'passports out of poverty' / Shirley Nuss -- Devising an empowerment paradigm for women in the Philippines: the importance of the family in urban micro-enterprises / Fe B. Mangahas and Virginia J. Pasalo -- Kitchen to kitchen via the market: poor women becoming self-reliant, a case study from India / Nishitha Sharma -- From survival to self-reliance: the experience of Self-Employed women's Association (SEWA) / Ela Bhatt.