Author : Robert H. Bates
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 13,19 MB
Release : 2017-09-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0691167354
Introduction -- The fundamental tension -- Taming the hierarchy -- Forging the political terrain -- The developing world: two examples -- The use of power -- Conclusion
Author : J. F. J. Toye
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 12,3 MB
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780631185475
This new edition preserves much of the original material on the resurgence of neo-classical economics in the field of development policy, but adds a range of new discussions to ensure that the text maintains its relevance in the 1990s.
Author : Melvin D. Ayogu
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 50,9 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Developing countries
ISBN : 9780415331050
The new economy is characterized in the developing world by open capital markets and coordinated international regulation - neither of which existed in the colonial period.
Author : Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 12,24 MB
Release : 2021-09-30
Category :
ISBN : 9781032173825
This book evaluates approaches towards regional and local socio-economic development, identifying practical instruments and solutions for shaping the local economy. It will be of interest to economics, geography, politics, and planning scholars and researchers working on regional sciences and local development.
Author : Martin Prowse
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 17,2 MB
Release : 2019-12-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3030339858
This book takes the reader through the expansion, restructuring and possible salvation of Malawi’s main industry, tobacco. Malawi has been dependent on tobacco exports for a century, but now, with demand for Malawian tobacco declining fast, the country needs to diversify rapidly. The authors combine an innovative range of theory and methods to provide a comprehensive and incisive analysis of the dilemmas faced by countries which still rely on a limited number of agricultural commodities in the 21st century. This work will be ideal for scholars and researchers interested in political economy and African development.
Author : Sarah A. Radcliffe
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 13,85 MB
Release : 2015-10-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0822375028
In Dilemmas of Difference Sarah A. Radcliffe explores the relationship of rural indigenous women in Ecuador to the development policies and actors that are ostensibly there to help ameliorate social and economic inequality. Radcliffe finds that development policies’s inability to recognize and reckon with the legacies of colonialism reinforces long-standing social hierarchies, thereby reproducing the very poverty and disempowerment they are there to solve. This ineffectiveness results from failures to acknowledge the local population's diversity and a lack of accounting for the complex intersections of gender, race, ethnicity, class, and geography. As a result, projects often fail to match beneficiaries' needs, certain groups are made invisible, and indigenous women become excluded from positions of authority. Drawing from a mix of ethnographic fieldwork and postcolonial and social theory, Radcliffe centers the perspectives of indigenous women to show how they craft practices and epistemologies that critique ineffective development methods, inform their political agendas, and shape their strategic interventions in public policy debates.
Author : Laurie Ross
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 39,74 MB
Release : 2015-07-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317549872
The fundamental aim of youth work is to build trusting and mutually respectful relationships with young people, creating transformative experiences for young people in formal and informal spaces outside of homes and schools. These complex and multidimensional situations mean that the day-to-day work of youth workers is full of dilemmas, pitting moral, developmental, motivational, organizational, and other concerns against each other. By showing how different youth workers respond to a variety of such dilemmas, this authentic text makes visible youth workers’ unique knowledge and skills, and explores how to work with challenging situations – from the everyday to the extraordinary. Beginning by setting out a framework for dilemma resolution, it includes a number of narrative-based chapters, in which youth workers describe and reflect on dilemmas they have faced, the knowledge and experiences they brought to bear on them and alternative paths they could have taken. Each chapter closes with a discussion from the literature about themes raised in the chapter, an analysis of dilemma and a set of overarching discussion questions designed to have readers compare and contrast the cases, consider what they would do in the situation, and reflect on their own practice. Teaching us a great deal about the norms, conventions, continuities, and discontinuities of youth work, this practical book reveals essential dimensions of the profession and contributes to a practice-based theoretical foundation of youth work.
Author : Bill Freund
Publisher : University of Kwazulu Natal Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,50 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Economic development
ISBN : 9781869141899
What is really meant by 'development' in 21st-century post-apartheid South Africa? What are the challenges and complexities of real transformation in this context? The contributions in this book address the ways in which people in all sectors of South African society are confronting its development dilemmas - from the energy crisis, environmental sustainability, and environmental justice, to grassroots social movements, problems of policy implementation, land and agricultural reform, and gender inequality. Written by leading academics and activists, this book is an essential and illuminating in-depth study of the dilemmas facing post-apartheid South Africa, and the historical, political, economic, and social context out of which a new democracy is being built. Collectively, the authors suggest that there is no easy way to attain development - it is a process, not an event, and is fraught with failures and loss, as well as gains.
Author : Peter Lewis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 753 pages
File Size : 34,49 MB
Release : 2018-02-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 042998216X
This book focuses on the historical construction of African states, the modes of political control in the region, and the character of political elites. It examines the nature of political legitimacy and the avenues of participation or withdrawal pursued by various popular sectors.
Author : Colin Filer
Publisher : ANU E Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 41,15 MB
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1922144428
"The main purpose of this volume is to publish, and thus to publicise, the factual material contained in a series of consultancy reports commissioned by the Porgera Joint Venture (PJV) between 1992 and 1994 (Banks 1993, 1994a, 1994b, 1994c; Bonne1l1994). These reports dealt with the social and economic impact of the Porgera gold mine on the population of the Porgera Valley during the period which had elapsed since the Government of Papua New Guinea (PNG) signed a Mining Development Contract with the PJV in April 1989. They were commissioned as part of what became known as the Porgera Social Monitoring Programme, which was itself intended to satisfy some of the conditions which the PNG Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC) had attached to its approval of the company's Environmental Plan (NSR 1988) and Environmental Management and Monitoring Programme(PJV 1991). The substance of these reports has been revised and edited to form Chapters 2-7 of the present volume. The last two chapters have been specially commissioned from two other social scientists who have studied the social impact of the mining project, and who were asked to provide their own comments on the design, management and output of the Porgera Social Monitoring Programme."--Introduction.
