People-led Transformation: African futuresDevelopment - Tập 55 - Trang 519-525 - 2012
Hakima Abbas
Hakima Abbas proposes a transformation in the international discourse towards people-led development. Focusing on rural development, she offers a paradigm shift towards a decolonized economic model based on the knowledge and values of people rather than profit.
Who's WhoDevelopment - Tập 49 - Trang 131-133 - 2006
BookshelfDevelopment - Tập 48 - Trang 151-154 - 2005
Introduction: Global Land Grabs: Investments, risks and dangerous legaciesDevelopment - Tập 54 - Trang 5-11 - 2011
In their introduction to this journal issue, the Land Research Action Network warns that a new global wave of land grabbing is underway. The current trend of investments is triggered by the interrelated crises in food, finance, energy and climate that have been spurred by decades of corporate driven globalization, neo-liberal policy regimes and natural resource exploitation. They argue that one po...... hiện toàn bộ
Reproductive Rights Advocacy: Concentration of effort, dilution of intentionDevelopment - Tập 48 - Trang 69-74 - 2005
Pascale Allotey, Daniel D Reidpath
Pascale Allotey and Daniel D. Reidpath discuss the issue of female genital cutting and obstetric fistulae within the context of reproductive rights advocacy. They use these examples to discuss the potential effects on the broader reproductive rights agenda of interventions that focus narrowly on what is often a symptom of unaddressed structural violence. They argue for a broader rights approach ra...... hiện toàn bộ
Recovering Better from COVID-19 Will Need a Rethink of MultilateralismDevelopment - Tập 63 - Trang 157-161 - 2020
Richard Kozul-Wright
The world economy is experiencing a deep recession amid a still unchecked pandemic. But the commitment to recovering better will not materialize if, as happened after the global financial crisis, the advanced economies resort to a policy mix of austerity, liberalization and quantitative easing. Such an approach will only worsen a whole set of pre-existing conditions and in particular, high inequal...... hiện toàn bộ
‘The World is Becoming a More Dangerous Place’: Culture and identity among Mexican migrants in the United StatesDevelopment - Tập 50 - Trang 6-12 - 2007
Lourdes Arizpe
Lourdes Arizpe analyzes how Mexican migrants are being seen in the United States and how they and their non-migrant family members in their rural villages in Mexico perceive their multi-sited lives. She argues that the existing plural vision of the world in their region, shaped by indigenous, Mexican and religious forms and the political philosophies of different periods of the nation's history, i...... hiện toàn bộ
Uncodified Justice: Women negotiating family law and customary practice in PalestineDevelopment - Tập 47 - Trang 103-108 - 2004
Nahda Y. Shehada
Nahda Y. Shehada highlights the ways in which Palestinian women operate within the parameters of their culture. In the story of Salha she shows how women involved in a familial conflict operate as social agents even under the most constraining circumstances. She gives an insight into the struggle of every day life in the unique situation of the escalating and continuing violence of today's Palesti...... hiện toàn bộ