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"Journal of Social Policy", review on "Gender Justice, Development and Rights", edited by Maxine Molyneux and Shahra Razavi (18 Oct 2004)
Gender Justice, Development and Rights is an extremely relevant contribution to social policy debates internationally as well as more locally, in the British context.
"International Affairs", review on "Gender Justice, Development, and Rights", edited by Maxine Molyneux and Shahra Razavi (27 Sep 2004)
This solidly researched collection is a work of mature scholarship that will be widely read by academics, activists and administrators across a variety of fields.
Development Policy Review on "Efficiency, Accountability and Implementation: Public Sector Reform in East and Southern Africa" by Ole Therkildsen. (30 Mar 2004)
Overall the paper offers useful insights into the complexities of reform and shows that donors, through errors of omission and commission, must share responsibility for the failures and shortcomings of reform efforts.
Development and Change; Review on Agricultural Expansion and Tropical Deforestation: Poverty, International Trade, and Land Use, by Solon Barraclough and Krishna Ghimire (8 Sep 2003)
For the authors of this book, decisions by landowners to expand africulture drive the worldwide destruction of tropical forests.
Development in Practice on Visible Hands (5 Feb 2003)
The report produced by UNRISD for the 1995 Social Summit was going to be a hard act to follow.
West Africa; Review on Global Media Governance - A Beginner's Guide, by Seán Ó Siochrú and Bruce Girard with Amy Mahan (11 Dec 2002)
New technologies are challenging the conventional ways of regulating the media, says Desmond Davies, Editor of the African weekly magazine West Africa...
Development Policy Review on Toward Integrated and Sustainable Development?, by Solon Barraclough (3 Dec 2002)
[The author] suggests that the question of what social forces could be mobilised to bring about the policy and institutional reforms required to approach socially and ecologically sustainable development remains 'the key issue for international development agencies'.
Development in Practice on The Native Tourist, edited by Krishna Ghimire (3 Sep 2002)
This book is the first volume devoted specifically to this subject and the editor, Krishna Ghimire, deserves credit for attempting to bring domestic and regional tourism in developing countries to the attention of a wider audience.
Echos du Cota; Evaluation des actions de développement au Sud, No.93, Décembre 2001; Bulletin trimestriel, on Les politiques sociales en Afrique de l’Ouest : Quels changements depuis le Sommet Copenhague (24 May 2002)
Review of: Les politiques sociales en Afrique de l’Ouest : Quels changements depuis le Sommet Copenhague
The Ecologist on The Native Tourist, edited by Krishna Ghimire (22 May 2002)
Review of The Native Tourist, edited by Krishna Ghimire
Le Monde on Visible Hands (22 May 2002)
Le Monde, le 11 septembre 2001
UN Chronicle on Visible Hands (21 May 2002)
UN Chronicle, Vol.37 No. 4, December 2000-February 2001, Visible Hands-Taking Responsibility for Social Development
Echos du Cota; Evaluation des actions de développement au Sud, No.93, Décembre 2001, Bulletin trimestriel d'information du COTA, on: Dynamique de la politique sociale en Côte d'Ivoire (21 May 2002)
Review of: Dynamique de la politique sociale en Côte d’Ivoire, Par Francis Akindès, UNRISD, Genève, La Côte d’Ivoire ...
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