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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"politics of development"”.
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The Politics of Development Aid: Understanding the Lending Practices of the World Bank Group
… examines variations in the lending strategies of the four main agencies of the World Bank. Countries with similar basic development and demographic attributes often receive very different amounts of financial support from the different agencies of the World Bank. Utilizing regression analysis …
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Analyzing the Politics of Development Funding, Competition, and Corruption in the Ch’orti’ Maya Area
My thesis is a study of the obstacles that prevent development practitioners from prioritizing beneficiaries’ needs when implementing development projects in the Ch’orti’ Maya area. Historically, structural dynamics have prevented the Ch’orti’ population from meeting their basic needs. While …
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Bargaining in a Labor Regime: Plantation Life and the Politics of Development in Sri Lanka
This dissertation is an ethnographic study of migrant labor, development, and gender among Malaiyaha ("Hill Country") Tamil tea plantation residents in contemporary Sri Lanka. It draws on one year of field research (2008-2009) conducted during state emergency rule in Sri Lanka amongst Malaiyaha …
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The Yellow Revolution in Malwa : alternative arenas of struggle and the cultural politics of development
… two analytical frameworks to explore questions of social transformation and structures of power in rural society in India. The first is a specific critique of various types of development discourse and development projects that have been elaborated by national and international elites during the …
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Of Roads and Revolutions: Peasants, Property, and the Politics of Development in La LIbertad, Chontales (1895-1995)
This dissertation analyzes the political-economy of agrarian social relations and uneven development in La Libertad, Chontales, Nicaragua. It locates the development of agrarian structures and municipal politics at the interstices of local level processes and supra-local political-economic …
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Empowerment through mine community development: how the politics of development perpetuate poverty in mining areas – a legal theoretical analysis
The Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act (“MPRDA”) and the Broad-Based Socio-Economic Empowerment Charter for the South African Mining and Minerals Industry (“Mining Charter”), created in terms of the MPRDA, aim to address the exploitative legacies of past discriminatory practices in the …
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Encounters of development knowledge, identities and practices: participation of faith based organisations in multi-stakeholder partnerships for HIV/AIDS mitigation in Botswana in 2003-2005
The magnitude of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, the severity of its impact and the inadequacy of a purely medical-based response has prompted the development of multi-stakeholder partnerships (MSPs) for HIV/AIDS mitigation. MSPs utilise an appropriate mix of health and non-health based interventions and …
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Essays on the Political Behavior of Economic Informality and Public Goods
… in economic informality help extend the reach of the state and advance public policies in developing societies. I document these complementary mechanisms using microdata and policy variations in Indonesia, an important case given its recent urbanization, democratic status, and the world’s …
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Geographical Indications and Development in the Third World: Towards a Strategic Approach of Intellectual Property Rights in Jamaica - The Case of Blue Mountain Coffee
The dissertation is a critical analysis of, and engagement with agricultural and food based geographical indications, the politics of development and international relations, and the prospects of forming reformist linkages between geographical indications and development in Jamaica and the …
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French development aid and the reforms of 1998–2002
This study is an analysis of the changes to the institutions and doctrines of French development aid between 1998 and 2002, and specifically the reforms announced by Prime Minister Jospin in February 1998. This includes analysis of institutional reorganisation and of new policy doctrines. The study …
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Does Natural Resource Wealth Spoil and Corrupt Governments? A New Test of the Resource Curse Thesis
… the resource curse also extends to the quality of regulation and the level of corruption. A theoretical framework is developed that informs the specification of interactive random effects models. A cross-national panel data set is used to estimate these models. Due to multicollinearity, only an …
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When better worlds collide: historical essays on the politics of international development and social science
This thesis is on politics, but of a very particular type. Tied to our very perceptions of existence and ways of life, it stems from deeper differences and entanglements. Exacerbated by post-Cold War globalisation, said politics is explored here in the contexts of international development. …