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- The Rise and Fall of Economic Liberalism: The Making of the Economic Gulag
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Author: Clairmont, Frederic E. Issue: Volume ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-09 19:44
- Governance and Nationbuilding: The Failure of International Intervention
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Author: Jenkins, Kate and William Plowden Publisher: Cheltenham, UK and Northa ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-10 09:14
- The functioning of the Egyptian food-subsidy system during food-price shocks
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Egypt has an extensive system of food subsidies which provides bread and other basic staples to the population at low prices. This article examines the functioning of the food-subsidy system during two recent periods of rapid food-price inflation to eva ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2011-08-16 09:46
- Aiding and abetting the politicians?
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The British government has increasingly assumed the role of international arbiter and peacekeeper, both with and without a UN mandate. The hijacking of the moral high ground and recurrent assertion of global consensus - even in the presence of overwhelmin ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:45
- Transformative learning and mind-change in rural Afghanistan
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This article presents results of a quantitative/qualitative enquiry into ‘transformative learning’ and ‘mind-change’ dynamics among rural community representatives participating in the Government of Afghanistan’s National S ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:53
- Culture, liberation, and 'development'
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Most of the socio-economic changes taking place in Africa and much of the South are externally driven. External agencies, often in league with the State, bypass working people and do not involve them in the decision-making processes. Their economic approa ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:55
- EURODAD's campaign on multilateral debt: the 1996 HIPC debt initiative and beyond
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'Multilateral debt is not a widespread problem for Severely Indebted Low Income Countries' wrote the World Bank in September 1994. Two years later, the International Financial Institutions (IFIs) - the Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) -agr ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:59
- NGOs and multi-layered management of protected resources in Belize and Malaysia
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Constrained largely by lack of resources – technical, financial, legal, and/or administrative – governments in developing countries often create multi-layered management structures to regulate and monitor protected resources. Such structures are created w ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:05
- Institutional innovations for urban infrastructural development: the Indian scenario
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As part of a human rights education campaign, the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC) fixed 700,000 posters throughout Bangladesh. This met with opposition from religious organisations. This paper investigates the nature and cause of the backlas ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:07
- The multi-image development NGO: an agent of the new imperialism?
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The failure of the post-colonial state to institutionalise democracy and regulate development for the benefit of the poor has given prominence to private actors, including development NGOs. With case studies from Malawi, this paper shows how NGOs may inad ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:10
