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Safeguarding the Health Sector in Times of Macroeconomic Instability presents the results of an international initiative to document the effects of how health systems in the developing world have responded to macroeconomic austerity and adjustment measures. Are these systems flexible and resilient to changes or are they rigid? In which circumstances and under which conditions do health systems respond favourably or unfavourably? What are the success stories? Country studies from Burkina Faso, Zimbabwe, India, Thailand, Mexico, and Colombia discuss lessons learned and identify policy measures f

International audience ; This paper examines the operation of Kudumbashree, the Poverty Eradication Mission for Kerala (India). Kudumbashree operates through female-only Neighbourhood Groups, which aim to contribute to their participants' economic uplift, and to integrate them with the activities and institutions of local governance. As such, Kudumbashree echoes poverty alleviation programmes elsewhere in the Global South designed to link poverty alleviation to 'active citizenship'. This paper evaluates the programme, arguing that although Kudumbashree has undoubtedly been successful in supporting women's public participation, questions remain over the autonomy of the 'invited spaces' it has created, and the underlying vision of poverty alleviation it embodies.