Increasing participation in conservation programs is viewed as necessary in today's world; however, more knowledge is needed regarding how to engage communities. This dissertation aims to deconstruct participation by exploring community-level social capital, gender differences, …
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Despite the fact that most multicultural education models have been developed in Western socio-political contexts, such models are increasingly being diffused around the world. Many scholars advocate the widespread use of such models for recognizing diversity and fostering inter…
Poverty and food insecurity in low-income countries are at the heart of the current agenda of the international community. The first Millennium Development Goal (MDG) aims to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, with a target of halving the incidence of poverty and hunger by 20…
This dissertation focuses on low-income rural-urban migrant children and their families in Bangladesh, living in a severe poverty-stricken environment in the capital city, Dhaka. Specifically, it deals with the dilemma of so-called non-formal primary education (NFPE) programs ai…
Fertilizer micro-dosing is a precision fertilizer application technique with the potential to improve agricultural productivity and livelihoods in the semi-arid-tropics. Despite more than two decades of disseminating the technology in Niger, micro-dosing adoption rates remain lo…
Why did many countries liberalize their trade and investment policies in the 1980s and the 1990s? Trade and investment liberalization in a country with a plural polity is likely to occur when a balance of payments crisis occurs in the presence of a pro-liberalization executive. …
This study considers the impact of government-imposed economic integration policies, particularly business registration and tax enrolment, on micro-scale entrepreneurs in Marrakech, Morocco. Economic formalization is currently the Moroccan government's main strategy for the econ…
Although Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina is a small municipality by population, it continues to be a recipient of substantial international assistance. Because of this and its contemporary history, it is a compelling case for a study of local economic development in transitional …
From the perspectives of economic anthropology, feminist anthropology, and feminist theory, this applied anthropological study is an evaluation of a popular international development model targeting poor women. Based on the celebrated Grameen Bank of Bangladesh, the so-called “m…
Development is everywhere. But development is a big business, with its own analogues to multi-national corporations, CEOs, misappropriation of funds, corrupt officials, trendsetters, yes-men, and protesters. Power imbalances within development are pervasive and evident through f…
This grounded theory-building dissertation targets the international effort to rebuild, transition and develop Bosnia and Herzegovina after the war. Hundreds of development organizations operate in Bosnia, linked in complex ways through interdisciplinary tasks and overlapping ma…
This thesis sets out to critically examine the field of higher education development, as one which is focused on socio-economic inequality and welfare, and determines educational purpose in poorer, or ‘developing’, countries accordingly. My question is whether mainstream develop…
This thesis constitutes an interpretive ethnography of children’s educational experiences in rural Rwanda. It advances a theoretical argument for conceptualizing subjectivity, one which attends to how impersonal forces of political economy and history converge to inform children…
Whereas historically government agencies were responsible for developing standards for food safety and quality and ensuring compliance to them, this responsibility is shifting to third-party certifiers with the globalization of the agrifood system, the consolidation of the food …
What does a gender audit offer a development organization that takes the time to conduct it? Does conducting a gender audit ensure gender integration or that gender equity policies will be followed? What is known about results years after an audit has been conducted? This study …
In recent years, neoclassical economic literature has undergone a fundamental change of emphasis, from orthodox neoclassical to neoinstitutional theory. World Bank research and high-level policy departments have reflected this change by shifting from development as 'structural a…
This dissertation explores how scaling-up affects the organizational identity of an NGO based in a developing country that transfers its programs to other developing nations. Using the concept of South-South transfer, as framed by organizational scaling up and programmatic borro…
This dissertation studies the collaborative efforts between World Vision Ethiopia (WVE) and Wisdom Micro financing Institution, S.C. (WISDOM) to provide caregivers of orphans and vulnerable children (OVCs) in Ethiopia with microfinance. Because of the millions of new OVCs being …
Lagos and Benin City are rapidly growing metropolitan areas with urban water markets, where multiple suppliers compete with a state-run water utility. The lack of household access to potable water is a major problem throughout the study area. While the literature on urban servic…