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- Land acquisition, employment loss, and women's participation in income generation in the coastal belt of South Gujarat
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This article analyses the industrialisation process in Hazira, situated on the coastal belt of South Gujarat in India. The author sets out to gauge the impact of industrial development on land distribution, on the employment opportunities of local people, ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:09
- Visions of Solidarity: US Peace Activists in Nicaragua from War to Women’s Activism and Globalization
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Author: Weber, Clare Publisher: Lexington Books, 2006, ISBN: 978-0-7391-1718-7 ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-05 18:58
- The Network Inside Out
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Author: Riles, Annelise Publisher: Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2 ...
Book review - admin - 2009-10-18 20:51
- Whose Reality Counts: Putting the Last First
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Author: Chambers, Robert Issue: Volume 8, Num ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-17 13:10
- Dance Civet Cat: Child Labour in the Zambezi Valley
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Author: Reynolds, Pamela Issue: Volume 1, Num ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-17 12:55
- Analysing cultural proximity: Islamic Relief Worldwide and Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh
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Based on fieldwork carried out on Islamic Relief’s relief programme for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, this article contributes to the debate on whether Muslim aid agencies bring added value when working with Muslim beneficiaries in Muslim areas ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2011-06-21 12:48
- Child protection: a role for conditional cash transfer programmes?
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Drawing on empirical data from a community-based study with children and adults in rural Peru, the paper analyses the everyday experiences of a conditional cash transfer programme, called ‘Juntos’. The findings show that social protection pr ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2012-06-13 16:06
- Developing indicators to assess women's empowerment in Vietnam
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From mid-1999 to mid-2001, the authors carried out a qualitative study in rural Vietnam to explore relationships between gender equity and reproductive health. One of the study's objectives was to develop culturally appropriate indicators of women's empow ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:00
- Women and NGO professionalisation: a case study of Jordan
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This article examines the impact of NGO professionalisation on who works in NGOs and why. Based on an in-depth survey of employees in 20 advocacy NGOs in Jordan, it demonstrates the gendered impact of professionalisation. The majority of NGO employees a ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:53
- Beijing: a conference of commitments?
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The author briefly discusses the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, negotiated and adopted by 189 countries at the Fourth World Conference on Women in September 1995, and how it promises that governments will take responsibility for its implemen ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:56
