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Showing 1 to 20 of 271 for “"international development"”.
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Knowledge, Power, and International Development: Beyond Critique
Knowledge and power are important in international development. Michel Foucault, a theorist of power, conceptualised knowledge and power as being in a dynamic and reciprocal relationship (Foucault, 1980 p52). This thesis explores the relationship between knowledge and power, focusing on my …
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Evaluator Cultural Competence in International Development Evaluation Practices
… that have an impact on the effectiveness of international development evaluation. Impacts were identified in specific aspects of the evaluation process, notably, gaining cooperation from local populations, gaining access to data, selecting data collection methods, understanding and …
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Expedient benevolence : international development and the United Kingdom
This thesis examines the role of International Development in the United Kingdom during its transition from a colonial ruler to a neo-liberal capitalist state. Starting with the inter-war period, it looks at the changing position adopted by the British state vis-a-vis development aid to its …
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Inside International Development Organisations: Socially Constructing Judgement in-the-Moment
… to build new knowledge on how senior managers of international development organisations defined judgement and how they made sense of it in the context of their leadership roles and work environments. A secondary aim was to explore methodologies and methods, specifically unstructured interviews …
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Thirding North/South: Mexico and Turkey in international development politics
Thirding North/South: Mexico and Turkey in international development politics Sebastian Haug International development politics has traditionally been shaped by a fundamental set of binary imaginaries: the ‘developed’ and dominant ‘North’, on the one hand, and the ‘developing’ and marginalised (and …
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Federating EU Development Cooperation? Europe’s Contributions to International Development Effectiveness
… long strived to act collectively in the face of international challenges such as poverty, hunger and state fragility beyond its borders. While the EU member states and institutions seek coherent responses to these challenges, they also have partly competing agendas. Yet there has been increasing …
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Landscape of Ideas: The Rise of Chinese International Development Thinking
This dissertation explores the rise of Chinese international development thinking in recent years. The re-emergence of Chinese development cooperation since the early 2000s has attracted growing scholarly and policy debates. In the past 5-10 years, a growing number of Chinese thinkers have sought …
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International development in two rural Kenyan villages: a transnational feminist approach
… of Kenya and the impacts of Western driven international development projects in their communities. Through semi-structured interviews conducted in the villages of Umoja and Unity this thesis outlines the complexities of international development organizations and their relationship to the …
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Rethinking the design paradigm for university technology projects in international development
… from developed countries have played a role in international development. In recent years, universities have created graduate-level programs that look to engage students to solve challenges faced by resource-constrained communities globally by leveraging technology and innovation. These projects …
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Community Resilience: A Meta-Study of International Development Rhetoric in Emerging Economies
… seeks to shed light on how the large body of international development literature addresses, measures, and operationalizes community resilience. This analysis uses two resilience frameworks to understand and codify dominant themes in community resilience to assess whether the international …
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Adequate service provision as the guide for energy transitions and international development
… of well-being have agreed to emission-limiting international agreements, forcing them to seek alternative ways to increase well-being. GHG emissions are connected to resource consumption (i.e. energy and materials), which in turn provide the `services', either to cover needs or desires by …
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The Ambivalence of Altruism: White Canadian Women in International Development in East Africa
… ethos and everyday lives of white women Canadian development workers living and working in East Africa. While those who decide to work overseas often do so with a desire to ‘do good,’ once arriving in the field development workers are often caught between these altruistic ideals and the …
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THE CANADIAN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCY AND THE CANADIAN LABOUR CONGRESS: A DEVELOPING PARTNERSHIP
… union central or federation, and the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), which is the government agency that administers the Canadian foreign aid programme. It traces the history of that relationship from 1969 to 1983 and documents the linkages between the two organizations, …
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Unrealised obligations : implementing HIV and AIDS policy in a large international development organisation
… of organisational dynamics, within the wider international development scenario, and organisational introspection within individual UN offices vis-à-vis HIV and AIDS policy implementation. It is envisaged that the study will induce the commissioning of a larger study carried out by an …
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A nemzetközi fejlesztési segélyezés hatékonysága = The Effectiveness of the International Development Aid Regime
Az értekezés azt vizsgálja, hogy az ezredforduló óta milyen változások következtek be az átalakuló nemzetközi biztonsági környezet hatására a nemzetközi fejlesztési segélyezés gyakorlatában. A globalizációs folyamatok révén a világ fejlett országaira fokozódó hatással vannak a fejlődő országok …
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Capacity Building for International Development Practitioners Through an Off-Campus Graduate Education Program
… offers a graduate off-campus program in international development, the Master of International Development Administration (MIDA). The stimulus for this study came from the fact that there had never been an extensive investigation of the capacity building impact on the graduates of the …
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International Development Cooperation from Below: Recipient Agency in Agriculture Development Cooperation in Haiti
… agency has been theorised in different ways in development discourses and practices; but it is widely recognised that development settings have always been uneven fields of power, in which recipient agency faces various forms of constraint and limitation. Since the 1970s, ‘participatory …
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Forecasting the success of environmental and sustainability activities in international development using language models
International aid and cooperation improve the lives of the poorest in developing countries and help safeguard the environment and promote sustainability. However, international aid activities sometimes fail to achieve their objectives. Few attempts have been made in the literature to create models …
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The making of impact: Causal validity and epistemic justice in international development impact evaluation
… of causal validity and epistemic justice in international development impact evaluation (IDIE), with a specific focus on agricultural interventions. Drawing on Ernest House's (1980) assertion that evaluations should be not only true but also just, and Donald Campbell's (1986) …
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The impact of multidisciplinary mobilities on the effectiveness of global health and international development projects
… been growing rapidly over recent decades. The ‘international elective placement’, which was once a preserve of medical student curricula, has now become increasingly common amongst nursing, midwifery and allied health professional students. International volunteering for healthcare professionals …
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