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- Sustainable development and democracy in the megacities
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Using Lima as an example, the author analyses the meaning of sustainable development and how grassroots community-based organisations can contribute to its achievement in megacities. Demands are today made of cities and countries of the South to develop i ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:07
- Self-determination in practice: the critical making of indigenous media
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The article examines the notion of development as self-determination in the context of current politicisation of indigenous peoples’ affairs. It looks at the links between development studies, indigenous social movements, and community media pract ...
Abstract - anna - 2009-10-01 16:58
- The Latin American City
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Author: Gilbert, Alan Issue: Volume 5, Number ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-07 09:09
- From philanthropy to corporate social responsibility in Guatemala: assessing shifts through Alianzas
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Latin American firms are moving from narrow philanthropy to broader engagement with development priorities. We examine this shift with data from Alianzas, a development programme promoting private contributions to health and education in Guatemala. We u ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2013-02-25 16:08
- Corporate responsibility and the US-Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA): are they compatible?
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The global garment-manufacturing industry will confront significant changes from 2005, when the system of quotas established under the Multi-Fibre Agreement comes to an end. These changes pose serious threats to jobs in the Central American assembly plant ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:50
- Rural grassroots organisations in Haiti: a case of wasted potential
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It is argued that the central role of rural grassroots organizations (RGOs) in Haitian rural development is of considerable importance. The Haitian Emergency Economic Recovery Programme has excluded the involvement of RGOs, and it is suggested that this w ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:57
- Citizenship: a perverse confluence
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This article discusses the different meanings that citizenship has assumed in Latin America in the past few decades. Its main argument is that, in the perverse confluence between neo-liberal and democratic participatory projects, the common reference to c ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:05
- New forms of environmental governance? A case study of Costa Rican environmental NGOs
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Increasingly development theorists and practitioners view NGOs as catalysts of sustainable development. NGOs have been regarded as champions of democratisation and promoters of new ways of engaging in politics, with considerable influence on the developme ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:09
- Leadership and Innovation in Subnational Government: Case Studies from Latin America
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Author: Campbell, Tim and Harald Fuhr (eds.) Publisher: Washington, DC: The W ...
Book review - admin - 2009-10-18 20:48
- Post-disaster emergency and reconstruction experiences in Asia and Latin America: an assessment
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From United Nations emergency responses involving tent camps, to the reconstruction approach of FUNDASAL in El Salvador and the post-disaster provision of housing by Caritas in Asia, it is clear that a giant step has been taken in thinking about emergen ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2010-11-05 13:43
