Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are recognized as playing a role in the health sector in developing countries. This book includes the background to the growth both in the sector and interest in it, and the strengths and weaknesses of NGOs.
Containing studies commissioned by the United Nations, this book focuses on the dynamic interaction between the economic and social variables in development. It assesses the role of health, work opportunities, education and social participation in economic and social progress.
This work examines the impact of economic structural adjustment programmes on grassroots civil associations, and the implications for political liberalization and democratization in the developing countries of Latin America, Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
What promotes or hinders the development of conservative parties in Latin America? The author explores the area's long legacy of authoritarianism and democratic instability and focuses on Argentina to trace the determinants of conservative party development.
This volume on Egyptian agriculture and rural society combines local research with national rural policy analysis and examines topics including: agribusiness strategy; access to water; the history of conflict in Egypt's agricultural sector; and tenancy relations and the 1992 tenancy law.
Billions are spent each year on foreign aid and tens of thousands are employed in the aid industry. Here, David Sogge asks questions such as: is there a real net flow of financial resources to the South?; how much aid should there be?; and on what terms should it be given?
Billions are spent each year on foreign aid and tens of thousands are employed in the aid industry. Here, David Sogge asks questions such as: is there a real net flow of financial resources to the South?; how much aid should there be?; and on what terms should it be given?
To what extent, and how, can women's movements influence the international political agenda? The contributors to this book explore the impacts women have made in development theory and practice, conflict management, and the conceptualization and politics of human rights.
To what extent, and how, can women's movements influence the international political agenda? The contributors to this book explore the impacts women have made in development theory and practice, conflict management, and the conceptualization and politics of human rights.
Several regions of the world are characterized by persistent internal conflict and deeply rooted structures of violence. This work explores why domestic and international efforts to re-establish order, human security, democratic processes, and a developing economy are proving difficult to achieve.
Radicals in Power provides an account of the innovative policies introduced over the past 20 years by the Workers Party of Brazil (PT) at state level, in big city administrations and medium-sized urban centres.
Radicals in Power provides an account of the innovative policies introduced over the past 20 years by the Workers Party of Brazil (PT) at state level, in big city administrations and medium-sized urban centres.
In this brutally honest, day-by-day account of a mission he undertook in Sierra Leone in 1986, Peter Griffiths uses his diary to tell the story of how the World Bank, obsessed with the free market, imposed a secret agreement on the government, banning all government food imports or subsidies.