Globalization, Poverty and Inequality provides an alternative viewpoint. It argues that for many - particularly for those living in Africa, Latin America, Asia and Central Europe - poverty and globalization are relational.
1 January 2005
The researchers who have written this book are clear not only that mass poverty is still the leading humanitarian crisis in developing countries, but that, if effective policies are put into place, the national elites who control governments and economies need to be convinced both of the reasons...
1 January 2005
These Guidelines offer an overview to social performance management, including an introduction, a roadmap for developing an SPM system, and a resource guide to SPM. They are supplemented by a set of eight Practice Notes, which offer more in-depth information on the issues discussed in the...
1 January 2005
In this paper we outline the context of pregnant women's lives and the plural health systems they encounter in Koppal, the most deprived district in the state of Karnataka, south India. We combine preliminary survey findings with qualitative work to illustrate the dynamics involved in seeking...
1 January 2005
The last few decades have seen heated debates over the issue of international labour standards. As governments sign up to international trade agreements, some of their constituencies call for the inclusion of labour agreements that would oblige them to abide by certain standards protecting...
1 January 2005
This paper investigates how the moral politics of AIDS activism in South Africa is contributing towards new forms of biological/health citizenship (Petryna 2002) that are concerned with both rights-based struggles and creating collectively shared meanings of the extreme experiences of illness...
1 January 2005
This paper compares and contrasts the cultures of activism and illness and treatment experiences of UK and South African AIDS activists. By the 1990s AIDS public health discourse in the UK, and elsewhere in the West, was reconfiguring AIDS as a manageable chronic illness that could be treated...
1 January 2005
This paper examines the participatory processes which led to the building of the Berg River Dam in South Africa's western Cape province. The government-led formal participatory processes initiated by government stand in contrast to the mobilisation of environmental activists against the building...
1 January 2005
Community Led Total Sanitation, or CLTS, is an approach which facilitates a process of empowering local communities to stop open defecation and to build and use latrines without the support of any external hardware subsidy.
1 January 2005
Debates about science and technology are central to the future of development. No recent controversy has highlighted this as much as the debates about genetically-modified (GM) crops. Looking at the experiences of anti-GM activism in India, South Africa and Brazil, this paper explores how...
1 January 2005
How far are microfinance institutions around the world contributing to global poverty reduction and what can they do to improve on this performance? This book presents the findings of a five-year action research programme into how far poverty-oriented microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Africa,...
1 January 2005
This book reflects the implications of a social performance management agenda for the perspective of twelve partners from Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe, who participated in a five-year microfinance action-research programme known as Imp-Act. It features contributions from MFI staff who...
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