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Performance-based Partnership Agreements for the reconstruction of the health system in Afghanistan

Full-text sample article FREE from Taylor & Francis. The reconstruction of the health system in Afghanistan is in its early stages, and donors have proposed Performance-based Partnership Agreements (PPA) through which to subcontract the delivery of he ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:44

Population control in the new world order

Population-control programmes can violate basic human rights and be a form of violence against women. The author presents her views on family planning as a form of social control arising from a neo-Malthusian world view which blames poverty and environmen ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:53

What is development?

The author presents his views on the essential ingredients of development, comparing the development ideal with its reality. Development is about change for the better, which must be appropriate (culturally, economically, technologically etc.) if change i ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:55

Beyond development, what?

The authors begin to outline the epic now unfolding at the grassroots, arguing that pioneering social movements are groping for their liberation from the `Global Project' being imposed upon them. Going beyond the premises and promises of modernity, peop ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:59

Can we measure civil society? A proposed methodology for international comparative research

In recent years, there has been renewed interest in the concept of civil society in development and governance circles. Broadly understood as the space in society where collective citizen action takes place, civil society has, in fact, proved an extremely ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:05

Governance of the Amman water utility

In 1993 the World Bank assisted the Ministry of Water and Irrigation of Jordan in updating a review of the water sector, and thus began the process of private sector participation (psp) in service provision to improve the efficiency of the water sector an ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:07

Primary Health Care: can the dream be revived?

12 September 2003 was the twenty-fifth anniversary of WHOs Alma Ata Health for All (HfA) by the Year 2000 Strategy. The strategy reflected an optimism that health could improve for poor and disadvantaged peoples around the world through the provision of c ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:10

Southeast Asia in Search of an ASEAN Community : Insights from the Former ASEAN Secretary-General