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- 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
- Partnering for sustainability: business-NGO alliances in the coffee industry
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The movement to promote sustainably produced coffee is one of many efforts aimed at linking social responsibility and market capitalism. In the wake of a worldwide coffee crisis in which prices have fallen to levels that do not support small-scale product ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:50
- Women in the informal sector: the contribution of education and training
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This article reviews the extent to which the educational system has acknowledged the importance to women of the informal sector of the economy, and the extent to which it has sought to prepare them for employment or self-employment within it. It assesses ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:56
- Are universal social standards possible?
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The author, the former president of Tanzania, answers this question resoundingly in the negative, arguing that while universal social principles may be possible, the inequity of wealth alone between countries means that social standards cannot currently b ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:02
- 'Resistance as creation': a new sociability in Argentina
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While everyday forms of resistance are not new in Argentina, the spontaneity that characterised the insurrection on 19 and 20 December 2001 was unprecedented. It showed how the absence of leadership, co-ordination, and promise might open the doors to powe ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:07
- Economic development - a first-hand report of the Chinese experience
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Zhuhai was designated a special economic zone (SEZ) as an experimentation point of economic liberalisation. This articles traces the development of the Zhuhai Special Economic Zone from a humble village to a significant economic power in southern China, f ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:10
- Shifting Burdens: Gender and Agrarian Reform under Neo-liberalism
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Author: Razavi, Shahra (ed.) Publisher: Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press, 2002, ...
Book review - admin - 2009-10-18 20:49
- City, Class and Trade: Social and Economic Change in the Third World
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Author: Harris, Nigel Issue: Volume 1, Numbe ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-22 08:30
- The long-term implications of the 2007–08 commodity-price boom
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The recent commodity-price boom was one of the longest and broadest of the post-World War II period, and, not unexpectedly, it reignited discussions about resource scarcity as well as proposals to ‘manage’ reminiscent of the 1970s. This cont ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2011-08-15 16:12
- “Your kool-aid is not my kool-aid”: ideologies on microfinance within an INGO culture
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Development investigations focus on synergies of institutional cultures for policy and practice. International non-governmental organisations (INGOs) currently enjoy a privileged position as harbingers of world culture unity. While there is contestation ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2012-08-16 10:18
