Économie
Le milieu de l’aide internationale accorde une importance grandissante au renforcement des capacités locales dans lequel elle voit un moyen de lutter contre la pauvreté et la faim dans les pays en développement. Pourtant, même s’il faut évaluer les efforts de renforcement des capacités pour en assurer l’efficacité, rares sont les organisations qui ont mis en œuvre un système de suivi ou d’évaluation des changements attribuables au développement organisationnel.
By expanding the existing set of indicators to include gender-related stress, anxiety, and violence, this book introduces a new framework for gender research. The viability of this new approach is demonstrated through a coordinated set of household surveys, carried out in Export Processing Zones and Export Processing Units, designed for intercountry comparisons between Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.
A very welcome and important contribution to understanding the rapidly changing policy environment surrounding global health.... A highly recommended read.
— Kelley Lee (Chair, WHO Scientific Resource Group on Globalization, Trade and Health)
This book maps the policy process and political economy of policymaking in Africa. Its focus on trade and industrial policy makes it unique in the literature. Detailed case studies help the reader to understand how the process and motivation behind policy decisions can vary from country to country depending on the form of government, ethnicity and nationality, and other social factors.
Economic self-reliance is as important as political independence. Women want access to and ownership of resources; they want to be able to express and represent themselves, but more than anything they want to work. “If we work, we survive,” they say.
— Ela Bhatt, Founder, SEWA
Management of local resources has a greater chance of a sustainable outcome when there is partnership between local people and external agencies, and agendas relevant to their aspirations and circumstances. Managing Natural Resources for Sustainable Livelihoods analyses and extends this premise to show unequivocally that the process of research for improving natural resource management must incorporate participatory and user-focused approaches, leading to development based on the needs and knowledge of local resource users.
This book brings together very insightful analyses of indigenous experience and strategies in the context of globalization from several continents and a number of theoretical perspectives. There are broad similarities making this a common struggle but the solutions arise from people solving problems in local contexts. Read this book and you will see that the debate is a very important one for the furtherance of human rights, for the future of these ancient traditions, and for the promotion of cultural, political and economic diversity everywhere.
Is Latin America moving toward a new generation of pro-poor land reforms? What are the real openings and constraints with regard to such policies at the local, national, and international levels? What role is research playing, and what role might it play, in tracking efforts and revealing policy options? This book suggests that Latin America may not be poised for a radical shift in land policy and administration, and that it is home to some worrisome trends and a rich array of initiatives on land issues.
En élargissant l’ensemble d’indicateurs existant pour y inclure le stress, l’anxiété et la violence reliés à l’appartenance à un sexe, ce livre présente un nouveau cadre pour la recherche sur les questions de genre. Un ensemble coordonné d’enquêtes auprès des ménages, réalisées dans les zones franches industrielles et les unités industrielles d’exportation, a démontré la viabilité de cette nouvelle approche. Ces enquêtes ont été conçues de manière à procéder à des comparaisons entre le Bangladesh, l’Inde, le Pakistan et le Sri Lanka.