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- Participation, Negotiation and Poverty: Encountering the Power of Images
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Author: Tembo, Fletcher Publisher: Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003, ISBN: 0 7546 3377 ...
Book review - admin - 2009-10-18 20:49
- Social Development in Latin America: The Politics of Reform
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Author: Tulchin, Joseph S. Allison M. Garland Publisher: Boulder, CO: Lynne Ri ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-09 13:42
- Forced Migration: Policy Issues in the Post-Cold War World
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Author: Rogers, Rosemarie and Emily Copeland Issue: ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-22 08:41
- Rethinking impact: understanding the complexity of poverty and change – overview
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The international workshop ‘Rethinking Impact: Understanding the Complexity of Poverty and Change’ (Cali, Colombia, 26–28 March 2008) explored the challenges inherent in evaluating agricultural research-for-development efforts, identif ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2010-11-09 11:56
- Addressing challenges of social assistance schemes: rights-based approach in Orissa, India
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The present article documents the programme strategy that has been used to address the challenges of social assistance schemes in Orissa, India. Key aspects of the strategy are: community mobilisation; use of mobile technology, web and media for communi ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2012-05-14 17:02
- Managing ethical standards: when rhetoric meets reality
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In the last two decades, the private sector has been placed under intensifying pressure to ensure it operates in an environmentally and socially responsible manner. Companies have moved through various phases of response, starting with a `deny and defend' ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:49
- The Nicaraguan Literacy Crusade: how lasting were its benefits?
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In 1981, Nicaragua was awarded UNESCO's Nadezhda K Krupskaya prize in recognition of the success of the 1980 National Literacy Crusade (CNA) through which, it was claimed, three quarters of the country's illiterate had been taught to read and write. This ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:54
- The WTO and foreign investment: implications and alternatives for developing countries
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The European Commission (EC) and other OECD countries would like a foreign investment treaty (or `multilateral investment agreement') within the World Trade Organisation (WTO). This would allow foreign companies to establish themselves with 100 per cent e ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:56
- Privatisation, multinationals, and corruption
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Full-text sample article FREE from Taylor & Francis. Recent initiatives from the OECD, the World Bank, and others on the subject of corruption have received widespread attention. However, the author argues that the incidence of corruption is closely co ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:02
- Country ownership: a term whose time has gone
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The term ‘country ownership’ refers to a property of the conditionality attached to programmes, processes, plans, or strategies involving both a ‘domestic’ party (generally a nation state) and a foreign party (generally the IMF, the World Bank, the Region ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:06
