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Decentralising urban health activities in developing countries: issues in planning

While there is considerable documented experience of decentralisation of health services in rural areas of developing countries, the decentralisation of health services in the urban context is rarely analysed. Urban development literature usually fails to ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:54

Partnership: casual affairs, marriages of convenience, or lasting relationships?

The author reports on the `International Conference on Scientific Research Partnership for Sustainable Development - North-South and South-South Dimensions', held in Berne in March 1996. Over 400 people from a wide range of fields attended, and while the ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:57

Kafka meets Machiavelli: post-war, post-transition Eastern Slavonia

As the agonising over `what next' for Kosovo and Serbia continues, Eastern Slavonia offers a transition experience and timescale from which we may learn. Each case is specific in historical and political terms, and in the nature of international intervent ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:02

Corruption

This article engages with the ways in which corruption has taken centre stage in much development policy making and rhetoric. It argues that there is a need to destablilise ‘taken for granted’ assumptions about what corruption is and how it operates. This ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:06

Reducing poverty in sub-Saharan Africa: the need for participatory governance

Traditional approaches to fighting poverty have yielded unsatisfactory results in some African countries, and have been positively damaging in others. Economic growth and social expenditure on the part of both national governments and international donors ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:35

Playing with fire: power, participation, and communication for development

Communication and its role in development and social change is still poorly understood and supported by large development players, despite decades of innovative practice and positive outcomes. Gaps between discourse and action, outdated evaluation metho ...

Abstract - anna - 2009-10-01 16:28

States, Scarcity and Civil Strife in the Developing World