Download or read book Sustainable Rural Livelihoods written by Ian Scoones and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sustainable Rural Livelihoods written by Robert Chambers and published by Institute of Development Studies. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Discussion Paper written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reversed Realities written by Naila Kabeer and published by Verso. This book was released on 1994-07-17 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dynamic reassessment of development theory with a focus on gender, this book examines alternative frameworks for analyzing gender hierarchies; identifies the household as the primary site for the construction of power relations; assesses the inadequacy of the poverty line as a measuring tool; and provides a critical overview of population control.
Download or read book Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications written by and published by . This book was released on 1976-07 with total page 1206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Education for All written by Richard Pring and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are two key questions at the heart of the ongoing debate about education and training for all young people, irrespective of background, ability or attainment: What counts as an educated 19 year old today? Are the models of education we have inherited from the past sufficient to meet the needs of all young people, as well as the social and economic needs of the wider community? Education for All addresses these questions in the light of evidence collected over five years by the Nuffield Review of 14-19 Education and Training: the most rigorous investigation of every aspect of this key educational phase for decades. Written by the co-directors of the Nuffield Review, Education for All provides a critical, comprehensive and thoroughly readable overview of 14-19 education and training and makes suggestions for the kind of education and training that should be provided over the coming decade and beyond. The authors acknowledge that much has been achieved by the respective governments – massive investment in resources; closer collaboration between schools, colleges, training providers, voluntary agencies and employers; recognition and promotion of a wider range of qualifications. They are also optimistic about the good things that are going on in many secondary classrooms – enormous amounts of creativity; courageous efforts to meet problems; a deep concern and caring for many young people otherwise deprived of hope and opportunity. But they argue for a radical reshaping of the future in the light of a broader vision of education – a greater respect for more practical and active learning; a system of assessment which supports rather than impoverishes learning; respect for the professional expertise of the teacher; a more unified system of qualifications ensuring progression into higher education and employment; the creation of strongly collaborative and local learning systems; and a more reflective and participative approach to policy. Education for All should be read by everyone working in – or with an interest in – secondary-level education in England and Wales and beyond.
Download or read book Collected Writings of Ian Nish written by Ian Nish and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of the Collected Writings of Modern Western Scholars on Japan brings together the work of Ian Nish on international relations affecting Japan, Russia, China and Korea in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Download or read book Working Paper written by University of Nairobi. Institute for Development Studies and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Measuring Food Security Using Household Expenditure Surveys written by Lisa C. Smith and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Marriage Motherhood and Masculinity in the Global Economy written by Naila Kabeer and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Revolutionizing Development written by Andrea Cornwall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of development studies in practice over the last fifty years through the work of one remarkable individual, Robert Chambers. His work has taken him from being a colonial officer in Kenya through training and managing large rural development projects to a fundamental critique of top-down development and the championing of participatory approaches. The contributors eloquently demonstrate how he has been at the centre of major shifts in development thinking and practice over this period, popularising terms that are now at the centre of the development lexicon such as vulnerability, multi-dimensional poverty, sustainable livelihoods and 'farmer first'. Robert Chambers played a major role in the massive growth in participatory approaches to development, and particularly the application of participatory methods in development research and appraisal. This has led to fundamental challenges to development practice, ranging from approaches to monitoring and evaluation to institutional learning and professional training. There is probably no-one who has had more influence on approaches to development in the past decades. Revolutionizing Development offers a unique overview of these contributions in thirty-two concise chapters from authors who have been intimately involved as collaborators, critics and colleagues of Robert Chambers.
Download or read book Reclaiming Social Policy written by Arjan de Haan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-07-31 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book re-evaluates the importance of social policies in shaping well-being and combating exclusion, and enhances understanding of how these policies are formed in a globalizing world. It emphasises the context- and path-dependence of patterns and policies of inclusion and exclusion, and provides a framework for supporting social policy making.
Download or read book Asian Politics in Development written by Robert Benewick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chapter Introduction -- chapter Social Politics, the State, Policy, Comparison: Gordon White's Contribution to China Studies -- chapter Gordon White and Development Studies: An Appreciation -- chapter Reform and the Role of the State in China -- chapter Managing Central-Local Relations During Socialist Marketisation: A Changing Role for the Chinese Communist Party -- chapter Treasuring the Word: Mao, Depoliticisation and the Material Present -- chapter State Enterprise Reform and Gender: One Step Backwards for Women? -- chapter Corporatist Capitalism: The Politics of Accumulation in South India -- chapter Bias and Capture: Corruption, Poverty and the Limitations of Civil Society in India -- chapter Between Cant and Corporatism: Creating an Enabling Political Environment for the Poor -- chapter State Entrepreneurship and Community Welfare Services in Urban China -- chapter Creating Wealth and Welfare: Entrepreneurship and the Developmental State in Rural China -- chapter Can Welfare Systems be Evaluated Outside Their Cultural and Historical Context? A Case Study of Children's Homes in Contemporary Japan -- chapter The East Asian Welfare States in Transition: Challenges and Opportunities -- chapter Is Globalisation All It is Cracked Up to Be? -- chapter Globalisation, Privatisation and China's Industrial Labour Systems -- chapter Bibliography of Gordon White's Works -- chapter Notes on Contributors.
Download or read book Empowering rural women through social protection written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2018-10-17 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The paper reviews evidence on the most widely-used social protection schemes, assessing the extent of their current and potential impact on women's economic empowerment.
Download or read book Revolutions in Development Inquiry written by Robert Chambers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-04 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Chambers returns with a new book that reviews, together for the first time, some of the revolutionary changes in the methodologies and methods of development inquiry that have occurred in the past forty years, and reflects on their transformative potential for the future. This book breaks new ground by describing and analysing the evolution of a sequence of approaches. Starting with the dinosaurs of large-scale multi-subject questionnaire surveys, and the biased visits and perceptions of rural development tourism and urban-based professionals, there follows a look at the explosive proliferation of methodologies and methods of recent years. These include rapid rural appraisal (RRA) participatory rural appraisal (PRA) and dramatic developments in the still largely unrecognized fields of participatory numbers and statistics, and of participatory mapping and GIS. Chambers shows how these can empower local people and provide rigorous and valid substitutes for some more traditional methods of inquiry. Also presented is a repertoire for offsetting the biases of the urban trap, which has become so serious for officials and aid agency staff. Importantly, Chambers points out that we are now in a different space, methodologically, from a few years ago. He makes the case that participatory methodologies, evolved through creative and eclectic pluralism, can be a transformative wave for the future as drivers of personal, professional and institutional change. This book is for all who are concerned with development, regardless of profession, discipline or organization, who seek to be abreast of the revolutionary breakthroughs in approaches and methods of inquiry of recent years, and what Chambers calls their 'unlimited potentials'. Published with IDS.
Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Global Value Chains written by Renu Agarwal and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion provides a review of global value chains (GVCs) and the megatrends that are shaping them and will continue to reshape them in deep-set trajectories of change over the next few decades. Megatrends herald both challenges and opportunities. With the growing interest among business leaders and researchers in GVCs, this is a reference work which fills a gap in current literature by focusing on the new features of GVCs, including the shift of global purchasing power towards developing economies, the significance of emerging technologies and data analytics, the increasing tensions between globalisation and de-globalisation, and the role of micro-multinationals, start-up entrepreneurs, the public sector and middle markets in a fast-changing global economy. The early chapters are essentially intradisciplinary in character, with the first seeking to explore some historical aspects of GVCs. Subsequent chapters cover the theory and practice of operations and supply chain management, emerging supply chain technologies, and the impact of inter-firm collaboration across sectors and economies. The final chapters take a more interdisciplinary approach and examine topics at the interface of GVCs with the economy, society, culture and politics. This comprehensive handbook provides a timely analysis of leading-edge global megatrends and practices in one volume.
