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Moving On From The Developmental View Of Humanity

  • Maria Bargh

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For many Indigenous people’s questions relating to development and how development should occur are commonplace. In particular, which types of institutions Indigenous peoples should privilege and establish in order to manage resources and maintain ...
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“Development”: Projects, Power, and a Poststructuralist Perspective

  • Aram Ziai

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The postdevelopment school has criticized development projects for their inherent power relations and their authoritarian implications. However, since the 1980s a transformation in development discourse can be observed that includes an emphasis on ...
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Development, Territories, and People: Consolidating the External Sovereign Frontier

  • Mark Duffield

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As a liberal relation of governance, development has a long genealogy spanning the colonial and postcolonial periods. This article attempts to uncover these interconnections. Development is first examined in terms of its singular ability to constantly ...
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Introduction: Local Reaction to Global Integration—The Political Economy of Development in Indigenous Communities

  • Hokulani K. Aikau
  • James H. Spencer

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The case studies explored in this volume show how indigenous communities from North America, South America, and Asia have articulated their collective interests within the context of development. This global perspective reveals at least three recurring ...
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The Impact of Microcredit on the Poor in Bangladesh

  • Patrick Develtere
  • An Huybrechts

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This article presents a comparative overview of the most relevant findings from studies of the impact of microcredit institutions like the Grameen Bank and BRAC in Bangladesh. It first evaluates the evidence on economic impacts, which suggests that the ...
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Blair's Africa: The Politics of Securitization and Fear

  • Rita Abrahamsen

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Prime Minister Tony Blair has described Africa as a “scar on the conscience of the world.” This article argues that New Labour's increasing attention to Africa is part of an ongoing securitization of the continent; interactions with Africa are gradually ...
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Treatises of Development: The Context of Developmentalism in Bangladesh

  • Abul Hossain Ahmed Bhuiyan
  • Aminul Haque Faraizi
  • Jim McAllister
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Environment and Alternative Development

  • Rajni Kothari

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This paper stresses the global dimension of the present-day human predicament, marked by the inequity of simultaneous material abundance and overdevelopment in some regions or sections and underdevelopment, increasing poverty and deprivation in some ...
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Cultural Action and Rural Development

  • Carlos A. Benito

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Widespread rural poverty and a tendency of food production to stagnate are phenomena common to many Third World countries. The meager results of the development efforts of the last quarter century demand the search for new alternatives'. This essay ...
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Development: The Third Way

  • Jimoh Omo-Fadaka

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The coming of independence to new nations means, besides self-government and management of resources, responsibility for the total welfare of the population as a whole and minimum disruption of the ecosystem. When options are available, what is the wisest ...
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