Evalue les programmes de lutte contre la pauvreté axés sur l'accès à l'éducation et à la santé à partir d'une méthode dite d'expérimentation aléatoire inspirée des essais cliniques pratiqués en médecine.
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For many years Tanzania was the darling of international aid agencies. During the 1970s it received more assistance per capita than any other nation in the world. And yet, the economy performed dismally: growth was negative, exports collapsed, and poverty increased massively. In…
For many years Tanzania was the darling of international aid agencies. During the 1970s it received more assistance per capita than any other nation in the world. And yet, the economy performed dismally: growth was negative, exports collapsed, and poverty increased massively. In…
The contributors respond to the absence of critical debate surrounding the ways in which spaces of the city do not merely contain, but also constitute, urban poverty. The volume explores how the spaces of the city actively produce and reproduce urban poverty.
The Will to Improve is a remarkable account of development in action. Focusing on attempts to improve landscapes and livelihoods in Indonesia, Tania Murray Li carefully exposes the practices that enable experts to diagnose problems and devise interventions, and the agency of peo…
Contains 11 essays which discuss critically the conception of civil society implicit in donor assistance programmes and the methods by which donors implement such aid. Focuses largely on two aid programmes: USAID and PHARE (the European Community programme for assistance).
Few government programs that aid democracy abroad today seek to foster regime change. Technical programs that do not confront dictators are more common than the aid to dissidents and political parties that once dominated the field. What explains this 'taming' of democracy assist…
Argues that the standard top-down, technocratic approaches to global poverty not only don't work but also trample the individual rights of the people they're meant to help. And those rights, it turns out, are crucial to fostering lasting development. Over the last century, globa…
"First published in Great Britain in 1989 by Macmillan London Limited"--T.p. verso. Bibliography: p. 195-226.
Comparison of the role of Europe, role of USSR, role of Canada and role of Israel in Latin American affairs - analyses the foreign powers' objectives in respect of territoryal interests, defence relations, economic relations, political aspects, etc., examines the means of pursui…
Philanthro-capitalism: How charity became big business The charitable sector is one of the fastest-growing industries in the global economy. Nearly half of the more than 85,000 private foundations in the United States have come into being since the year 2000. Just under 5,000 mo…
Contents: Introduction : concepts and instruments by Robert O. Matthews and Cranford Pratt. Part 1: Domestic context. Human rights in domestic politics and policy by Ronald Manzer. Cabin d, Cribb d, confin d? : Canada's interest in human rights. By Kim Richard Nossal. Huma…
How effective is western aid-agency intervention in Africa? What can African women do to manage the AIDS crisis? Can western feminist theory be applied to the rural African context? These vital issues, and many others, are considered in this topical book by eminent scholars and …
With case-studies drawn from Mozambique, Ethiopia and Afghanistan, this title provides a critical and historically informed analysis of the NGO movement, humanitarian intervention, sustainable development, human security, coherence, fragile states, migration and the place of rac…
At the 'Earth Summit' in Rio de Janeiro 1992 the real agenda focused more on preserving the interests of the North than on concern for the environment and the peoples of the South. The authors criticise this attitude. With figures and tables on climate, energy, forestry and agri…