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- Rural Poverty, Risk and Development
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Author: Fafchamps, Marcel Publisher: Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2004, ISBN: 1 8 ...
Book review - admin - 2009-10-18 20:48
- Frontiers of Development Economics: The Future in Perspective
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Author: Meier, Gerald M. and Joseph E Stiglitz (eds.) Publisher: New York, NY: ...
Book review - admin - 2009-10-18 20:49
- A World Divided: Militarism and Development After the Cold War
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Author: Tansey, Geoff, Kath Tansey, and Paul Rogers (eds.) Issue: ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-07 18:22
- Development and Cities
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Edited by: Westendorff, David Edited by: Eade, Deborah ...
Book - anna - 2009-12-22 15:48
- Food-price hikes and the situation of farm workers in the Philippines
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Agricultural wage labourers in the Philippines were especially vulnerable to the food-price increases of 2007–08. Their wages do not cover the costs of food, clothing, and shelter, much less healthcare and their children's education. Food-price in ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2011-08-16 10:19
- Corporate responsibility or core competence?
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Although the concept that corporations are responsible not only to their shareholders but also for the social and environmental impacts of their activities has now entered the mainstream, pressure is still required to ensure that companies honour their pu ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:47
- Challenging conventional views on mobile telecommunications investment: evidence from conflict zones
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Huge amounts are being invested in information and communication technologies (ICTs) such as mobile phones and their telecommunications infrastructure. Development agencies provide a conventional view on the ‘climate’ needed to encourage suc ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:34
- Depoliticising development: the uses and abuses of participation
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Participation must be seen as political. There are always tensions underlying issues about who is involved, how and on whose terms. While participation has the potential to challenge patterns of dominance, it may also be the means through which existing p ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:56
- `Engendering' environmental projects: the case of eco-timber production in the Solomon Islands
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Worldwide concern for the environment has spawned a new field of interest and expertise within the development assistance industry. Environmental projects have become the new `darling' of the foreign aid community with donors and practitioners vying for s ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:59
- Social protection
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The term ‘social protection’ has been widely used around the world and is often treated as synonymous with ‘social security’, which is misleading. This article considers the numerous terms that have become part of the language of social protection, indica ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:05
