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- A social change model of health development in the Republic of Georgia:
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Since the fall of the Soviet Union, the Government of Georgia has been struggling to provide healthcare services to a population experiencing a deterioration in health status, while at the same time restructuring and reforming the delivery, priorities, re ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:06
- Two agricultural shocks in the former USSR, 60 years apart
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Besides wars and revolution, Russia and its neighbours suffered two major agricultural shocks in the last century: the collectivisation crisis of 1929–33 and the collapse of the collective farms in the 1990s. Both were in some sense policy-induced ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2011-08-16 10:29
- Aiding and abetting the politicians?
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The British government has increasingly assumed the role of international arbiter and peacekeeper, both with and without a UN mandate. The hijacking of the moral high ground and recurrent assertion of global consensus - even in the presence of overwhelmin ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:45
- Trading and trade-offs: women's livelihoods in Gorno-Badakhshan, Tajikistan
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This paper is based on a small micro-level study carried out to assess the impact of recent socio-economic changes in Tajikistan on the livelihoods and well-being of women in Gorno-Badakhshan. It examines the recent involvement of women in trading and inf ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:08
- Transdisciplinary innovation research in Uzbekistan – one year of ‘Follow-the-Innovation’
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In 2008, a German-funded interdisciplinary research project in Khorezm province, Uzbekistan, initiated a participatory approach to innovation development and diffusion with local stakeholders. Selected agricultural innovations, developed by the project ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2011-08-16 11:48
- Household coping strategies in Kyrgyzstan
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The author considers the coping strategies used by the newly poor households of the now-independent nation-state Kyrgyzstan. Like other former members of the Soviet Union, Kyrgyzstan has fared badly economically since the disintegration of both the Union ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:55
- Community-led development in practice: humanising institutions for children and older people in Russia
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This article focuses on the personal, social, and psychological hazards that children and the elderly face in Russian state-run institutions. The paper challenges two assumptions: that Russia's problems are purely economic, and that the state is solely re ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:08
- Editorial 21.7
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This is a good issue. Wahey. Author: Wardle, Debs Author: Wardle ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2011-11-29 12:40
- NGOs, civil society and the State: building democracy in transitional countries
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40 participants from 24 countries took part in this workshop, organised by the International NGO Training and Research Centre (INTRAC) in Oxford, UK. Much of the workshop was spent trying to reach agreement on what civil society means, and the degree to w ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:56
- Developing policy on integration and re/construction in Kosova
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The Gender Audit (GA) and associated reports and reviews drawn upon in this article enable an evaluation of how far the intervention processes at work in Kosova since 1999 have been inclusive of gender analysis and supportive of women's and girls' needs a ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:10
