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- Global Governance, Development and Human Security: The Challenges of Poverty and Inequality
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Author: Thomas, Caroline Publisher: London: Pluto Press, 2000, ISBN: 0 7453 1 ...
Book review - admin - 2009-10-18 20:51
- A Blighted Harvest
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Author: Gibbon, Peter et al. Issue: Volume 4, ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-17 12:58
- The impact of agricultural research: evidence from West Africa
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Can agricultural research help to enlist smallholders and their resources for global food security? The Convergence of Sciences (CoS) research programme in Benin and Ghana (2002–2006) tested the impact of technology development, using a pathway fo ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2010-11-09 12:25
- Designing food security projects: Kapchorwa and Bukwo, Uganda
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Food security is a key aspect of human development. The present article explores the shortcomings of agricultural interventions in two districts in eastern Uganda. Our study shows that these interventions have achieved only minor successes in relieving ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2012-05-15 10:11
- What difference can they make? Assessing the social impact of corporate codes of practice
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As retailers in the North increasingly adopt codes of practice containing social and/or environmental provisions in global supply chains, there is a need for rigorous assessment of their social impact. Moving beyond the rhetoric, it is important to establ ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:49
- `The Right to Truth: Amnesty, Amnesia, and Secrecy'
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The annual international conference of the Catholic Institute for International Relations took place in London in December 1993, and was concerned with problems arising when countries emerge from experiencing gross human rights violations. The delegates a ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:54
- The global struggle for the right to a place to live
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The problem of inadequate housing and living conditions facing one quarter of the world's population is situated in this article within the framework of human rights, and of international recognition of the basic rights to a place to live, and to gain and ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:56
- Public sector trade unions in the face of privatisation
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This paper looks at the nature and extent of privatisation around the world, including an analysis of the bodies or interests which promote this `panacea' policy. It identifies a number of responses which public sector trade unions have made to such polic ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:02
- The uncertain relationship between transparency and accountability
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The concepts of transparency and accountability are closely linked: transparency is supposed to generate accountability. This article questions this widely held assumption. Transparency mobilises the power of shame, yet the shameless may not be vulnerable ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:06
- NGO–government partnerships for scaling up: sexuality education in Mexico
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Governments in developing countries need effective programmes to advance public policies and improve social welfare. NGOs often have well-tested programmes and research outcomes that are relevant to such needs, yet the scaling up of pilot programmes to ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:08
