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- Microfinance evangelism, `destitute women', and the hard selling of a new anti-poverty formula
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This article challenges the recent uncritical enthusiasm for the potential of micro-finance institutions to reduce poverty. It is argued that, although understanding about how to design anti-poverty financial intermediation has improved, the current campa ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:56
- Globalisation and women in India
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Describing the way globalisation has affected India over the last decade, the author considers the impact of these changes on women, in the main areas of `development' due to globalisation: commercialisation, capitalisation, foreign trade orientation, and ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:02
- Celso Furtado and development: an outline
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This review essay focuses on the most crucial points in the evolution of Celso Furtado’s contribution to economic and political thought in relation to development, in the hope that a wider readership will appreciate the importance of his ideas to Latin Am ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:07
- The role of horizontal networks in microfinance impact monitoring and assessment
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This paper draws on five case studies to explore potential benefits and barriers to horizontal networking to promote impact monitoring and assessment of microfinance. Its main aim is to stimulate further discussion of this issue, but it also draws tentati ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:10
- The Native Tourist: Mass Tourism Within Developing Countries
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Author: Ghimire, Krishna B. (ed.) Publisher: London: Earthscan, 2001, ISBN: 1 ...
Book review - admin - 2009-10-18 20:50
- From Feast to Famine: Official Cures and Grassroots Remedies to Africa's Food Crisis
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Author: Rau, Bill Issue: Volume 1, Number 3 ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-07 09:25
- Which instruments best tackle food price instability in developing countries?
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The food crisis of 2007–08 and the urban riots that ensued in some 40 developing countries placed the question of food price instability at the heart of policy debates. Since the 1980s, the prevailing idea has been that the best solution is managi ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2011-08-15 16:18
- To what extent does social policy design address social problems? Evidence from the “70 y más” programme in Mexico
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Previous research has revealed that social policy design is relevant for addressing social problems, particularly for reducing poverty. However, evidence on poverty reduction exposes a sluggish trend towards achieving its main goals. This paper first re ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2012-08-16 10:20
- International NGOs and unions in the South: worlds apart or allies in the struggle?
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In the early 1980s, support for trade unions was a significant component of Oxfam GB's programmes in various parts of the world, most notably Central America and South Africa. In Central America, this was motivated both because organised labour played an ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:01
- Is foreign direct investment good for the poor? A review and stocktake
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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
