Agriculture is a vital development tool for achieving the Millennium Development Goal that calls for halving by 2015 the share of people suffering from extreme poverty and hun- ger. That is the overall message of this years World Development Report…
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The size and rapid growth of China, together with its increasing assertiveness, repre- sent a challenge to the established global order. The dynamics and the future impacts of these power shifts for the architecture of global governance and the…
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This paper explores some of the ways in which a dialogue between development and postcolonial scholarship might contribute to the theorizing of transnational networks in contemporary development. It does so through consideration of three…
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The concept of sustainable livelihoods is increasingly important in the development debate. This paper outlines a framework for analysing sustainable livelihoods, defined here in relation to five key indicators. The framework shows how, in different…
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Minimizing delays is a crucial step in improving outcomes with acute stroke therapies whose efficacy is clearly time dependent. Logistic and human barriers to rapid stroke care can be overcome with a systematic "Code Stroke" approach provided by a…
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This paper seeks to contribute to an improved understanding of the gender aspects of social capital manifested in groups for natural resource management (NRM). We investigated how gender differentiated social groups differ in their activities and…
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At the outset of Chinas reform period, the country had a far higher poverty rate than for Africa as a whole. Within five years that was no longer true. This paper tries to explain how China escaped from a situation in which extreme poverty persisted…
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This paper provides a meaning for the term chronic poverty in a nutshell and explores the concepts of poverty, vulnerability and poverty dynamics that underpin this meaning. Subsequently, it reviews who is chronically poor, why they stay poor and…
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This classic is regarded as the seminal text from which stems much current anthropological thinking about ethnicity. This text opens with Barth's invaluable thirty-page essay that introduces readers to important theoretical issues in the analysis of…
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The reinvestment in agriculture, triggered by the 2008 food price crisis, is essential to the concrete realization of the right to food. However, in a context of ecological, food and energy crises, the most pressing issue regarding reinvestment is…
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In this exploratory article, we ask how states come to be understood as entities with particular spatial characteristics, and how changing relations between practices of government and national territories may be challenging long-established modes…
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The landscapes created by livelihood diversification in rural Africa result from human activity, from biophysical processes, and from their interrelations. The paper explores these interrelationships through analysis of productive bricolage' -the…
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In 1987, World Development published a supplement entitled Development Alterna- tives: the Challenge of NGOs. Although this challenge now seems far more complicated, this pa- per suggests one way of giving meaning (and possibility) back to the…
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Can the local commercialization of natural products contribute to reduced poverty and vulnerability? Commentary on this issue is mixed, with some observers being quite optimistic, while others hold a counterview. This paper explores the poverty…
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The practice orientation of Robert Chambers' work on Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA), which aims at enabling local people and communities to take control over their own development, has received much attention in development circles. This…
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Contemporary Africa is generally depicted as a 'failure'. 'Progress' has eluded the continent throughout the 20th century, and despite new ways of thinking about the reasons for failure and possibilities for success, allusions to the 'natural…
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