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- We NGOs: a controversial way of being and acting
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While the forces of globalisation have intensified economic polarisation, diverse social movements worldwide are struggling to defend the public interest and to promote a more rights-based and sustainable form of organising human society. In allying thems ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:05
- Africa and the New Globalization
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Author: Klay Kieh Jr, George (ed.) Publisher: Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008, ISBN: ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-08 09:10
- The Internet and the South: Superhighway or Dirt Track?
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Author: Panos Media Briefing Paper No. 16 Issue: ...
Book review - admin - 2009-10-18 20:54
- The banking sector intervention in the microfinance world: a study of bankers' perception and outreach to rural microfinance in India with special reference to the state of Punjab
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Microfinance has been evolving as an indispensable tool of poverty eradication and rural improvement. At present, almost all the commercial banks have delved into the microfinance foray and offer various lucrative schemes designed for the rural poor, sp ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2012-08-16 10:17
- Managing ethical standards: when rhetoric meets reality
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In the last two decades, the private sector has been placed under intensifying pressure to ensure it operates in an environmentally and socially responsible manner. Companies have moved through various phases of response, starting with a `deny and defend' ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:49
- Globalism and nationalism: which one is bad?
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The author differentiates between globalism, an ideology, and globalisation, a process that affects us all. He compares globalism and nationalism, considering the positive, negative, and similar, aspects of each, using examples from Eastern Europe where a ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:02
- Never the twain shall meet? Women's organisations and trade unions in the maquila industry in Central America
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The garment and textile factories and assembly plants in the Central American free trade zones, known as the maquila industry, have given rise to new actors on the labour scene, as women's organisations and local monitoring groups now work alongside the t ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:10
- Corporate Responsibility and Labour Rights: Codes of Conduct in the Global Economy
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Author: Jenkins, Rhys , Ruth Pearson and Gill Seyfang (eds.) Publisher: London ...
Book review - admin - 2009-10-18 20:49
- The impact of agricultural research: evidence from West Africa
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Can agricultural research help to enlist smallholders and their resources for global food security? The Convergence of Sciences (CoS) research programme in Benin and Ghana (2002–2006) tested the impact of technology development, using a pathway fo ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2010-11-09 12:25
- The development impact of remittances to Nicaragua
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Global workers' remittances have grown noticeably in recent years. Remittances are now a key macroeconomic factor in many developing countries, representing an increasingly large percentage of total monetary inflows. For many developing countries, remitta ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:51
