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NGOs and Cuba: opportunity or opportunism?

01/02/1995

10 pages long

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Reporting on a large gathering of international and Cuban NGOs and other agencies, this article explores the issues faced by Cuban society in undergoing rapid economic change; and examines why the New World Order has not led to any significant involvement with Cuba, either by the inter-governmental agencies or by independent NGOs. It describes the […]

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Redefining the roles of environmental NGOs in Africa

01/02/1995

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The article summarises issues identified in a study undertaken on behalf of the HIVOS Foundation of the Netherlands and the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs Development Division, which included a field study of 45 environmental NGOs in seven African countries. This generated an institutional database to support the aid strategies of the agencies commissioning the […]

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The South African environment

01/02/1995

4 pages long

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This article does not have a description. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis.

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The United Nations speak out on forced evictions

01/02/1995

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In the most recent issue of Development in Practice (4/3), the question of population movement was considered from various angles by our contributors. Here, Miloon Kothari expands on the theme of involuntary displacement and development.

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Living or surviving: reflections on Central America

01/02/1995

9 pages long

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As the civil wars in Central America subside, the region is undergoing far-reaching changes in its economies, and in the role of the State, in particular in the growth of the maquila (assembly plant) industry, and the reduction of the public sector. However, poverty has increased, and is associated with high levels of violence and […]

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Limited liability companies and development agencies

01/02/1995

3 pages long

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The use of the `development limited liability company’ (LLC) is expanding. There are important differences between the broad social goals of development and the narrow economic ones of the LLC: they are concerned with people and profit respectively. The author discusses the problems likely to arise when NGOs attempt to use LLCs directly, as part […]

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Prospects for NGOs in China

01/02/1995

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This article explores the prospects for indigenous and foreign NGOs in post-Mao China. The structural complexity of the emerging NGO sector is illustrated by a typology of the new social organisations which have flourished in the last ten years. The author considers the factors favouring the expansion of this intermediary sector of quasi- and non-governmental […]

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Editorial

01/02/1995

2 pages long

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This article does not have a description. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis.

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Viewpoint

01/02/1995

13 pages long

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With reference to ‘What can aid do for social development?’, ‘The World Bank’s poverty strategy’ and ‘Emergency Social Funds: the experience of Bolivia and Peru’ This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis.

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Social integration: approaches and issues

01/02/1995

3 pages long

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The World Summit for Social Development, to be held in Copenhagen in March 1995, will consider three closely inter-related themes: decreasing poverty, reducing unemployment, and enhancing social integration. With the support of the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) has been mobilising its worldwide network of scholars, activists, […]

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