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Donna L. Doane
Donna L. Doane has been working on issues of concern to informal women workers for many years. She received her Ph.D. in Economics and an M.A. in Anthropology from Yale University, and has spent a great deal of her life in Asia (in Japan, India, Thailand, and other countries in the region), working in research institutes and universities. She now lives in the Philippines and has been doing research in recent years with Homenet South East Asia, a network of informal women workers, on issues of social protection for homebased workers. She has also worked on projects for the Fair Trade Alliance (FTA) of the Philippines, Gender and Development Studies of the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) in Thailand, and the Department of Women and Development Studies, College of Social Work and Community Development, University of the Philippines (UP Diliman).