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Volume 14, number 5

Editorial Deborah Eade

Articles

Local government and housing in South Africa: managing demand and enabling markets
David Pottie

Improving citizen participation in local government in Latin America through international cooperation: a case study
W.E. (Ted) Hewitt

The ‘Economy of Communion’: A case study of business and civil society in partnership for change
Lorna Gold

Children’s perceptions of poverty, participation, and local governance in Uganda
Sophie Witter and Jenifer Bukokhe

The Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) and faith-based NGO aid to Africa
Susan Dicklitch and Heather Rice

Viewpoint

Communication for social change in Latin America: contexts, theories, and experiences
Daniel Mato

Mayan dress as text: contested meanings
Morna Macleod

Reflections on NGOs in Tanzania: what we are, what we are not, and what we ought to be
Issa G. Shivji

Practical Notes

Impact measurement for NGOs: experiences from India and Sri Lanka
Linda Kelly, Patrick Kilby, and Nalini Kasynathan

Bridging gaps: collaboration between research and operational organisations
James L. Garrett

Book reviews

Niezen, Ronald
The Origins of Indigenism: Human Rights and the Politics of Identity
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003, ISBN: 0 520 235541, 272 pp.
reviewed by
Diana Vinding
International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs, Copenhagen

Leipziger, Deborah
The Corporate Responsibility Code Book
Sheffield: Greenleaf Publishing, 2003, ISBN: 1 87471 978 0, 512 pp.
reviewed by
Seb Beloe
Director, Research and Advocacy, SustainAbility Ltd, London

Skard, Torild
Continent of Mothers, Continent of Hope: Understanding and Promoting Development in Africa Today
London: Zed Books, 2003, ISBN: 1 84277 107 8, 260 pp.
reviewed by
Nish-Muthoni Matenjwa
Research, Publications & Communications Programme Manager, ABANTU for Development, London

Taye, Assefa, Severine M. Rugumamu, and Abdel Ghaffar M. Ahmed (eds.)
Globalization, Democracy and Development in Africa: Challenges and Prospects
Addis Ababa: OSSREA, 2002, ISBN: 0 9521 2694 X, 379 pp.
reviewed by
Ebere Onwudiwe
Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Central State University, Wilberforce, Ohio

Memmi, Albert, introduced by Jean-Paul Sartre and with a new introduction by Nadine Gordimer
The Colonizer and the Colonized
London: Earthscan, 2003, ISBN: 1 84407 040 9, 197 pp.
reviewed by
Patrick Chabal
Professor of Lusophone African Studies, King's College, London

 

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