Cormac Ó Gráda
Cormac Ó Gráda
Famine, like poverty, has always been with us. No region and no century has been immune. Its scars — economic, psychological and political — can long outlast its immediate impact on mortality and health. Famines are a hallmark of economic...
The "politics of the queue": the politicization of people living with HIV/AIDS in Tanzania [0.03%]
“排队的政治”—— Tanzania AIDS患者的政治化
Nadine Beckmann,Janet Bujra
Nadine Beckmann
Starting from a body of literature on movements around "biological citizenship," this article analyses the political significance of HIV-positive people's collective action in Tanzania. We explore reasons for the limited impact of Tanzanian...
Ethnicity, development and gender: Tsáchila indigenous women in Ecuador [0.03%]
民族，发展与性别：厄瓜多尔的土著女性-tsáchilas族
Sarah Radcliffe,Andrea Pequeño
Sarah Radcliffe
In recent decades, indigenous populations have become the subjects and agents of development in national and international multicultural policy that acknowledges poverty among indigenous peoples and their historic marginalization from power...
Dominic Glover
Dominic Glover
Expectations play a powerful role in driving technological change. Expectations are often encapsulated in narratives of technological promise that emphasize potential benefits and downplay potential negative impacts. Genetically modified (G...
"The perfect business": human trafficking and Lao-Thai cross-border migration [0.03%]
“完美的生意”——人口贩卖与老泰跨境迁移
Sverre Molland
Sverre Molland
Over the past few years some governments and development organizations have increasingly articulated cross-border mobility as "trafficking in persons". The notion of a market where traffickers prey on the "supply" of migrants that flows acr...
On the targeting and cost-effectiveness of anti-poverty programmes in rural India [0.03%]
关于印度农村反贫困项目的定位及性价比问题
R Gaiha,K Imai,P D Kaushik
R Gaiha