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- Globalisation and homelessness in the USA: building a social movement to end poverty
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The authors explore the deleterious effects of economic globalisation on people in the USA, and explain the rise of poor people's organisations as a response to these conditions. They look at the impact of economic changes in terms of public policy and ar ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:01
- Redefining development for national security: implications for civil society
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The effects of counter-terrorism legislation on civil society organisations (CSOs) based in the South have received little attention in the wider literature. This article reports on the findings of a series of international workshops to examine the effe ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-12-10 14:53
- Free Trade and Uneven Development: The North American Apparel Industry after NAFTA
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Reviewed by Luz María de la Mora, Trade Representative of the Mexican Ministry of Economy at the EU, Brussels Author: Bair, Jennifer ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:02
- Neither silent nor invisible’: anti-poverty communication in the San Francisco Bay Area
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The communication practices of three US anti-poverty groups in the San Francisco Bay Area – Coalition on Homelessness, Poor News Network, and Media Alliance – are discussed whose communication strategies work for the recognition and rights o ...
Abstract - anna - 2009-10-01 16:47
- Academic-community collaboration, gender research, and development: pitfalls and possibilities
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Collaboration has become a watchword for development practitioners and theorists. Yet collaboration or partnerships between academics and community-based researchers and activists have often proved difficult. This is particularly true for partnerships wit ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:02
- A rural economic development plan to help the USA win its war on cocaine
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Since the 1980s, the USA has fought cocaine in the Andes with carrots and sticks: interdiction and crop eradication wield the sticks, while Alternative Development (AD), which offers economic assistance to farmers who voluntarily abandon illicit cultiva ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2010-11-05 13:57
- How can PhD research contribute to the global health research agenda?
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We suggest that PhD and post-doctoral researchers are a strong, untapped resource with the potential to make a real contribution to global health research (GHR). However, we raise some ethical, institutional, and funding issues that either discourage new ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:02
- Thinking and acting outside the charitable food box: hunger and the right to food in rich societies
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From a food-supply standpoint, the 30 member states of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) – the world's rich club – can reasonably claim to be self-sufficient. Issues of food access are met through publicly fund ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2011-08-16 10:32
- The Participatory Change Process: a capacity building model from a US NGO
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This paper describes the Participatory Change Process (PCP), a model that promotes the formation and action of sustainable grassroots organisations in poor and marginalised communities, using participatory learning and action methods to provide people wit ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:03
- 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
