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Peter Coleridge discusses issues raised by Brian O'Toole and Geraldine Maison-Halls ([12]Development in Practice 4(1)) outlining the use of community-based rehabilitation (CBR) in providing services to disabled people in low-income countries. The author o ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:54
- Hidden Lives: Voices of Children in Latin America and the Caribbean
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Author: Green, Duncan Issue: Volume 9, Numbe ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-05 19:19
- Spirituality: a development taboo
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Spirituality is central to many of the daily decisions people in the 'South' make about their own and their community' s development, including that of whether or not to participate in risky but potentially beneficial social action. Despite its importance ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:05
- The role and example of Chilean and Argentinean Mothers in democratisation
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This paper explores the development issue of democratisation from a gendered perspective, emphasising the need to look for the building blocks of democracy within civil society sectors where women play a key role. Chilean and Argentinean women prove an im ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:00
- A smorgasbord of agricultural technologies: farmers’ choices and lessons from Chalite, Panama
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Patronato de Nutrición introduced a range of 18 optional agricultural technologies in the indigenous community of Chalite, Panama. Three of the technologies were adopted by more than half of the farmers surveyed, while an additional eight technologies wer ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:08
- Junto con los niños: street children in Mexico
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A notable absentee from the ten-point action plan set out by the 1990 World Summit for Children was the issue of street children. Yet such children are a common sight in cities of the developing world, and live in some of the most extreme conditions of po ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:57
- The Spirit of Regeneration: Andean Culture Confronting Western Notions of Development
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Author: Apffel-Marglin, Frédérique with PRATEC (eds.) Issue: ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-09 19:45
- The new urban poor: the Tobas indians
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The author describes the movement of the Tobas indians from their nomadic, rural lifestyle in northern Argentina (due mainly to industrial deforestation) to Rosario, a city of around 1 million inhabitants. He highlights the difficulties the Tobas face in ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:05
- Building assets to reduce vulnerability: microfinance provision by a rural working people's union in Mexico
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Full-text sample article FREE from Taylor & Francis. Proyecto Tequisquiapan (PT) provides protective microfinance services in a small region of rural Mexico, including, importantly, open access deposit facilities. The authors report on new research wh ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:00
- Balancing act: Business and household in a small Bolivian city
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Sucre is a city of micro enterprises. The lines between business and household are often blurred: accounts are mixed, space is shared, and partners from outside the household are rare. On the surface, this kind of business organisation seems most inadequa ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:09
