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- Educational efficiency in the Caribbean: a comparative analysis
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With a rapidly growing population and limited resources, accountability has taken on increased importance, especially in the area of public management. To assess the effectiveness of public spending on education in the Caribbean, this article compares per ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:08
- An East Asian Model for Latin American Success: The New Path
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Author: Hira, Anil Publisher: Aldershot UK/Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007, ISBN ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-07 09:16
- Is social change fundable? NGOs and theories and practices of social change
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Northern NGOs have come under critical scrutiny since the 1990s, often with negative conclusions as organisations which had supported radical social change in the 1970s and 1980s have since turned themselves into a professionalised and bureaucratic aid ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2010-11-05 13:30
- Environmental reform in Brazil: advances and reversals
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It is now two years since the Government of President Fernando Collor de Mello took office in Brazil. This article assesses its effectiveness in implementing its environmental policies and resolving social conflicts in the Amazon in the run-up to the Unit ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:53
- Change and continuity: the challenge of transition (Paper from Symposium)
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This symposium, co-hosted by the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) and the South Africa Office of Oxfam, drew together individuals and organisations working in the areas of violence, conflict and peace-building. In this paper, the ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:58
- Violence in development: the logic of forced displacement on Colombia’s Pacific coast
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A progressive piece of legislation in 1993 granted collective land rights to Colombia’s black communities living in the rural areas of the Pacific coast region. This measure aimed partly to support sustainable development strategies in the region through ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:07
- Challenging relations: a labour-NGO coalition to oppose the Canada-US and North American Free Trade Agreements (NAFTA), 1985-1993
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In 1987-1988, a national debate erupted in Canada on the desirability of entering into a free trade agreement with the USA and its potential effect on Canadian culture, society, and national sovereignty - as well as its economy. A national coalition of la ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:11
- Transcending Neo-liberalism: Community-based Development in Latin America
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Author: Veltmeyer, Henry and O’Malley, Anthony (eds.) Publisher: Bloomfield, ...
Book review - admin - 2009-10-18 20:49
- Food crisis, small-scale farmers, and markets in the Andes
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In the Andean region, national policy responses to the 2007–08 food-price crisis emphasised reducing pressures on consumers, and particularly on urban populations. In Bolivia, the prices of all domestic and imported food tubers and grains rose dra ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2011-08-15 16:37
- Operationalising participatory research and farmer-to-farmer extension: the Kamayoq in Peru
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While rural poverty is endemic in the Andean region, structural adjustment programmes have led to a dismemberment of agricultural research and extension services so that they are unable to serve the needs of smallholder farmers. The NGO Practical Action h ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:00
