Naila Kabeer (Bengali: নায়লা কবির; born 28 January 1950)[1] is an Indian-born British Bangladeshi social economist, research fellow, writer and professor at the London School of Economics.
Kabeer was the Kerstin Hesselgren Professor at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden from 2004 to 2005 and Senior Sabaticant with International Development Research Centre Regional Office in South Asia from 2005 to 2006.
[9][10] She has been active in developing frameworks and methodologies for integrating gender concerns into policy and planning and has experience of training and advisory work with governments, bilateral and multilateral agencies and NGOs[6] including Oxfam, ActionAid, Women for Women International,[7] BRAC, PRADAN and Nijera Kori.
[11] She is the author of Reversed Realities: Gender Hierarchies in Development Thought, Vero, 1994 and The Power to Choose: Bangladeshi Women and Labour Market Decisions in London and Dhaka, Verso 2000.
[9] She collaborated with UNRISD for the programme Social Effects of Globalization and wrote three papers: Gender, Demographic Transition and the Economics of Family Size: Population Policy for a Human-Centred Development in 1996; The Conditions and Consequences of Choice: Reflections on the Measurement of Women's Empowerment in 1999; and Leaving the Rice Fields but Not the Countryside: Gender, Livelihood Diversification and Pro-Poor Growth in Rural Viet Nam in 2000.
[6] Kabeer is also involved in ERSC-DIFD Funded research on Gender and Labour Market dynamics in Bangladesh and India.