Irene V Langran
Irene V Langran
In 1991, the Philippines joined a growing list of countries that reformed health planning through decentralization. Reformers viewed decentralization as a tool that would solve multiple problems, leading to more meaningful democracy and mor...
South Africa's abortion values clarification workshops — an opportunity to deepen democratic communication missed [0.03%]
南非堕胎价值观澄清研讨会——一次深化民主交流的机会错过了
Louise Vincent
Louise Vincent
A rich literature exists on local democracy and participation in South Africa. While the importance of participation is routinely built into the rhetoric of government, debate has increasingly focused on the dysfunctionality of participator...
Aminur Rahim
Aminur Rahim
This article seeks to dispel the popular myth surrounding the food crises which precipitated food riots in the global South in 2008. Arguing from a structural and historical perspective, the article suggests that global hunger is a deep-roo...
Women, microcredit and family planning practices: a case study from rural Ghana [0.03%]
女性、小额信贷和计划生育行为：来至加纳农村的一个案例研究
Carolette Norwood
Carolette Norwood
This paper examines the influence of informal banking club participation on family planning practices in rural Ghana. Research from Asia suggests that family planning practices are improved by club participation. This study examines this th...
"Now if you have only sons you are dead": migration, gender, and family economy in twentieth century northwestern Ghana [0.03%]
"如果你只有儿子就死定了":20世纪西北加纳的迁移、性别与家庭经济
Gariba B Abdul-Korah
Gariba B Abdul-Korah
This article explores the interconnectedness between labor migration, gender, and the family economy in northwestern Ghana in the 20th century. It focuses specifically on the Dagaaba of the Nadowli and Jirapa administrative districts of wha...
Felix Banda,Omondi Oketch
Felix Banda
This paper examines the effectiveness of multimodal texts used in HIV/AIDS campaigns in rural western Kenya using multimodal discourse analysis (Kress and Van Leeuwen, 2006; Martin and Rose, 2004). Twenty HIV/AIDS documents (posters, billbo...
Poverty and development in a marginal community: case study of a settlement of the Sugali Tribe in Andhra Pradesh, India [0.03%]
印度安得拉邦苏加利部落聚居地的贫困与发展：一个社区的案例研究
Eswarappa Kasi
Eswarappa Kasi
The concepts of poverty and development have many meanings in contemporary globalized societies. Development by definition implies desired changes in terms of livelihood, improved quality of life and better access to assets and services, et...
Microfinance and poverty reduction: evidence from a village study in Bangladesh [0.03%]
小额信贷与减贫：孟加拉国村级研究的证据
Shah Nawaz
Shah Nawaz
To evaluate the competing claims on the impact of microfinance programs on multidimensional poverty, a village study in Bangladesh was conducted where three microfinance programs had been operating for more than five years. The study found ...
National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, poverty and prices in rural India [0.03%]
国家农村就业保障计划、贫困和印度农村价格问题
Raghav Gaiha,Vani S Kulkarni,Manoj K Pandey et al.
Raghav Gaiha et al.
The objective of this analysis is mainly to construct an intuitive measure of the performance of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in India. The focus is on divergence between demand and supply at the district level. So...
J P Singh
J P Singh
The paper aims to explicate those factors accountable for the continuing imbalance in the sex ratio and its further masculinization over the whole of the 20th century. Here it is contended that the traditional practice of female infanticide...