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Valorização de recursos naturais: eficiência e equidade

Fixar preços adequados para bens ambientais é essencial para a gestão sustentável de recursos naturais. Não é fácil, porém, estabelecer um valor para os recursos naturais pois o problema da exclusão torna difícil proteger os recursos naturais do uso não-p ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:52

Population control in the new world order

Population-control programmes can violate basic human rights and be a form of violence against women. The author presents her views on family planning as a form of social control arising from a neo-Malthusian world view which blames poverty and environmen ...

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

Networking in practice: the experience of the Arid Lands Information Network

As the development agenda becomes more and more led by the preoccupations of Southern non-government organisations (NGOs) it becomes increasingly crucial that good communications flows are encouraged and maintained between development practitioners. Proje ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:39

Home-based care for people with HIV/AIDS: Agomanya, Ghana

From December 1987 to January 1988, a team of medical personnel from the Korle-Bu teaching hospital undertook an epidemiological study in the Krobo district to study the efficiency and potency of a Korean and Zairean herbal preparation. Findings showed th ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:39

The World Bank's poverty strategy

The World Bank's reliance on market forces when trying to achieve economic growth produces problems when implementing the Bank's strategies. The author puts forward his view that poverty should not merely be defined in terms of income, and that the strugg ...

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

A tribal welfare project in Tamil Nadu

The Nilgiris Adivasi Welfare Association (NAWA) was founded in 1958, in Tamil Nadu, India, to work for the integrated welfare of the six Nilgiri tribes, all displaced and dispersed by the invasion of their forest homelands by incoming non-tribal peoples. ...

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

Editorial 6(2)

In English only Author:  Eade, Deborah Issue:  V ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:56

Feedback

Kishore Saint, one of Development in Practice's founding Editorial Advisers, shares his thoughts on the way forward for the journal as he prepares to stand down from his position. Author:  ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:56

The Zimbabwe Women's Resource Centre and Network

The paper discusses some of the innovative ways in which the Zimbabwe Women's Resource Centre and Network (ZWRCN) has generated space for alternative critical feminist knowledge and analysis, which it sees as an essential basis for equitable development. ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:38

Ruanda: além do ‘conflito étnico’

O artigo explora algumas das razões pelo fracasso da comunidade internacional em agir decisivamente e de maneira antecipada no genocídio de 1994 que ocorreu em Ruanda, que têm suas origens em um distante processo históric ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:38