Development

Consumer Goods as Dialogue About Development

by Richard Wilk

Published first in 1990, Culture & History, 7: 79-100.
also published in 1995 as Consumer Goods as Dialogue about Development: Colonial Time and Television Time in Belize." in Consumption and Identity, J. Friedman, ed., Chur, Switzerland: Harwood Academic. pp. 97-118.

An early effort to think about why middle class consumers in Belize are so deeply interested in buying and owning... more An early effort to think about why middle class consumers in Belize are so deeply interested in buying and owning foreign goods. I argue that rather than being a form of copying or emulation, consumption acts in an almost magical way to try to call a particular future into being.

HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE PROCESS OF GLOBALIZATION

by sule toktas

Integration and sensory experience-dependent survival of newly-generated neurons in the accessory olfactory bulb of female mice

by Livio Oboti

From Workers' Self-Management to State Bureaucratic Control: Autogestion in Algeria

by Samuel Southgate

Chapter in Dario Azzellini and Immanuel Ness eds. 2011. Ours to Master and to Own: Workers’ Control from the Commune to the Present. Haymarket Books: Chicago. pp. 228-247

Once upon a time in a mobile world . . .

by Jacqueline Batchelor

co-authored with Adele Botha and Merryl Ford, Meraka Institute (CSIR)

Mobile Technology has permeated into rural areas, classrooms and boardrooms at such a rate that the modes of use have... more Mobile Technology has permeated into rural areas, classrooms and boardrooms at such a rate that the modes of use have not had time to be culturally historically integrated. The ubiquitous and personal nature of the technology has changed the way people interact and act around many social and economic issues. This proliferation of Mobile Technology and the phenomenal uptake under the youth has forced formal learning institutions to react. This reaction has often been to ban the technology outright. In this paper we explore some of the social factors that may have led to this reaction, as well as the alternative namely the institutionalisation of the technology. We offer some insights into the mobile youth and make suggestions based on our research findings.

Effects on memory development: content-general versus content-specific knowledge

by Mark Gillingham

Understanding "Success" in Structural Adjustment: A Multi-Stakeholder Approach

by Emily Helms

Honors Thesis

This thesis problemetizes the positive relationship assumed between development
programs and poverty reduction.... more This thesis problemetizes the positive relationship assumed between development
programs and poverty reduction. By examining use of language and the various methods of analysis used to describe and determine the “success” of these programs, a more comprehensive understanding of poverty and development emerges. This paper focuses on international financial institutions, national governments, the private sector, and civil society within aid-receiving countries. A special emphasis is placed on the effects of the World Bank’s structural adjustment programs on the poor.

The Tainted Pearl: Stories of War, Tourism and Development in Uganda

by Stan Frankland

13 THE STILL WATERS OF THE NILE

by Stan Frankland

Capacity building in emerging space nations: Experiences, challenges and benefits

by Ugur Murat Leloglu

Etiopía necesita de nuevo ayuda internacional

by Jose Luis Vivero

Gabon mBanking 2011-12-05

by Andrew DeBerry

Les Groupements de développement agricole (GDA), entrepreneurs locaux ou relais administratifs?

by Aude-Annabelle Canesse

Canesse A.-A., 2010, « Les Groupements de développement agricole en Tunisie : entrepreneurs locaux ou relais administratifs ? » in Denieuil P.-N., Madoui M. (dir.), Entrepreneurs maghrébins. Terrains en développement, Paris, Karthala, pp. 243-255

Mots-clés: GDA - Groupement de développement agricole - Participation - Administration - Tunisie

Key words:... more Mots-clés: GDA - Groupement de développement agricole - Participation - Administration - Tunisie

Key words: Agricultural Development group - Participation - Governance - Administration - Tunisia

Religion and development: Australian Faith-Based Organisations

by Gerhard Hoffstaedter

Working paper on religon and development with a focus on Australian faith based organisations

Faith plays a crucial role in development, yet ‘faith-based’ organisations (FBOs) continue to face ambivalence towards... more Faith plays a crucial role in development, yet ‘faith-based’ organisations (FBOs) continue to face ambivalence towards their religiosity and how it may impact upon the development work they do. As a result they have undergone structural changes to ameliorate the pressures arising from mainly government related outcome oriented funding structures. This also relates to the dual role FBO legitimacy plays ensuring both public donations at home and successful outcomes in the recipient country. FBOs have significant advantages over secular organisations in their ability to harness moral will at home and abroad as well as tap into transnational religious networks and local communities in
aid recipient countries. Australian faith based organisations involved in international development are a diverse and underresearched category that is difficult to define. Thus this paper seeks to make inroads into this group of organisations
to better understand them and their missions, the challenges they pose to development and the challenges they face in development.

Living with Heritage: The Potentials of and Pressures on the Heritage Landscape of Gwollu, Upper West Region, Ghana

by Natalie Swanepoel

Swanepoel, N. 2010. Living with heritage: the potentials of and pressures on the heritage landscape of Gwollu, northern Ghana. Journal of Field Archaeology 35 (4): 400-411.

Atypical hemispheric asymmetries for the processing of phonological features in children with rolandic epilepsy

by Nathalie Bedoin

We assessed language lateralization in 177 healthy 4- to 11-year-old children and adults and atypical
asymmetries... more We assessed language lateralization in 177 healthy 4- to 11-year-old children and adults and atypical
asymmetries associated with unilateral epileptic foci in 18 children with benign epilepsy with centrotemporal
spikes (BECTS). Dichotic listening results revealed two indices of immature functional asymmetry when the
focus was left-sided (BECTS-L). First, children with BECTS-L did not show left hemisphere dominance for the
processing of place of articulation, which was recorded in children with BECTS-R and control children. On the
contrary, healthy children exhibited a gradual increase in left hemisphere dominance for place processing
during childhood, which is consistent with the shift from global to finer-grained acoustic analysis predicted by
the Developmental Weighting Shift model. Second, children with BECTS-L showed atypical left hemisphere
involvement in the processing of the voiced value (+V), associated with a long acoustic event in French stop
consonants, whereas right hemisphere dominance increased with age for +V processing in healthy children.
BECTS-L, therefore, interferes with the development of left hemisphere dominance for specific phonological
mechanisms.

SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING IN POST-OIL CITIES:Lessons from Masdar (Abu-Dhabi) and Port Harcourt (Nigeria) for Tema (Ghana)

by Alex MArful

In the advent of oil discovery, the boom of infrastructure development in the country is always phenomenal and if it’s... more In the advent of oil discovery, the boom of infrastructure development in the country is always phenomenal and if it’s sustainably planned and properly implemented can change the socio-economic fortunes of the country. The case varies for various countries due to some action and inactions of its policy makers and this become evident in the spatial disposition of its infrastructure as well as the growth of the city as a whole. The euphoria and excitement surrounding Ghana’s oil discovery have reach a state which calls for policy makers to take a break from the jubilation and plan for its infrastructure development in the next few decades. The type of plans instituted would determine whether important cities like Tema would develop to be like Port Harcourt of Nigeria or Masdar of Abu-Dhabi. As the treasures base of the nation, and the fact that it is the centre of the oil and gas industry-technology in Nigeria and the West Africa sub-region; Port Harcourt holds the largest accumulation of heavy and light industry-technology in Nigeria and the West African sub-region. As a city which was original founded and planned by the colonial masters to export coal to England is also nicknamed the Garden City. It has a vibrant oil economy; offering myriad opportunities for business, investment and tourism but also have its own infrastructural and physical development challenges that do not reflect the apparent wealth accrued from the oil.
Masdar City on the other hand is a young city which was master planned by the Brit-ish Architectural firm Norman Forster and Partners in 2008 and is also growing fast due to the revenues from the 1971 oil discovery in United Arab Emirates. Abu-Dhabi, the capital state of the UAE sprang from a fishermen and hunters community by applying the latest principles of sustainability, explore renewable resources of energy that has transform it to an open, industrious, progressive and tourist capital. Masdar City a part of Abu-Dhabi urban utopia (as described by some urban and development planners) represent a new type of urban setting and lifestyles that blend innovation, technology and sustainability in the harsh desert climatic condition. Just as C.A. Doxiadis planned Tema (the industrial city and largest port in Ghana) in the 1960’s with the Garden-City concept, the construction of Masdar City is also being heralded as "the world’s first carbon-neutral, zero-waste city". It is therefore prudent to critically interrogate the underlying issues and principles that informed the infrastructure development and planning of the two cities (Masdar and Port Harcourt) which have dictated the final disposition of the urban fabric.
In this paper, the current trends of sustainable infrastructure planning and develop-ment in Post-Oil Cities with reference to Port Harcourt and Masdar City would be discussed. The issue of relevance of Masdar City Infrastructure Development and Port Harcourt Current state of Infrastructure would be critically analysed as well. Finally, recommendations from lessons gleaned from both Masdar City and Port Harcourt would be made for the future infrastructure planning and development of Tema Metropolitan area when the oil revenues in Ghana start to manifest in Ghana’s economy.

Key Words: Sustainable, Infrastructure Planning, Development

'I am helping them':'Traffickers','anti‐traffickers' and economies of bad faith

by Sverre Molland

'The Perfect Business': Human Trafficking and Lao–Thai Cross‐Border Migration

by Sverre Molland

Soil and development in Amazonia

by Philip Fearnside