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Structural Adjustment - The SAPRI Report: The Policy Roots of Economic Crisis, Poverty and Inequality

Author:  The Structural Adjustment Participatory Review International Network (SAPRIN) Publisher:  ...

Book review - admin - 2009-10-18 20:48

The European Union and the Third World

Author:  Holland, Martin Publisher:  New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002, ISB ...

Book review - admin - 2009-10-18 20:49

Adjustment and Poverty: Options and Choices

Author:  Stewart, Frances Issue:  Volume 6, Num ...

Book review - admin - 2009-12-09 19:45

Development and Advocacy

Edited by:  Eade, Deborah Most major development NGOs dedicate significant resources to advocacy. Many also work to inform and shape pub ...

Book - anna - 2009-12-22 15:52

The impact of high food prices on food security in Cambodia

Food prices in Cambodia increased by 36.8 per cent between July 2007 and July 2008. High food prices negatively affected people from all walks of life, but the extent of the impact varied. The poorest 40 per cent of the population spend 70 per cent of t ...

Abstract - dwardle - 2011-08-16 10:15

Is foreign direct investment good for the poor? A review and stocktake

Few issues in the development process raise as much heat as the role of the international private sector in the form of transnational corporations (TNCs) and foreign direct investment (FDI). This article reviews the most recent research on the impact of F ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:47

Mapping the road to development: a methodology for scaling up

Understanding local variability in context and mobilising local participation to define development agendas are widely accepted development strategies. There remain, hoUnderstanding local variability in context and mobilising local participation to defi ...

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

Adjusting health care: the case of Nicaragua

In 1978 at Alma Ata, the date was set for achieving `Health for All by the Year 2000'. Achieving this seems more remote than it did then, due in part to Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs), the author argues. In Nicaragua, as elsewhere, structural adj ...

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

Mainstreaming gender in the police: the Maharashtra experience

This paper offers an insight into the creative ways in which a major social institution in one of the most progressive States in India has attempted to take gender issues on board. The Maharashtra Police Force has taken a major step towards empowering wom ...

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

Poverty reduction

The idea of poverty reduction naturally attracts all kinds of angels – in NGOs, government departments and international financial institutions – but their ministrations are frustrated by many obstacles. These include the narrow and static way in which ec ...

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