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Book

Development and Culture

01/01/2002

1 documents

220 pages long

Languages: English

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Development methods

Overview

Development in Practice Readers draw on the contents of the acclaimed international journal Development in Practice. They offer thematic collections of papers by practitioners, policy makers, scholars, and activists. Each book includes an original introductory essay and an annotated resource list of recent publications, as well as relevant journals, organisations, and websites, constituting an essential […]

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Book

Peru

01/01/2002

5 documents

98 pages long

Languages: English

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This profile provides a guide to the major recent economic, social, and political developments within Peru, viewed through the eyes of Peruvians themselves. John Crabtree emphasises the depth of social divides in a country where more than half of the population lives in poverty and without access to adequate employment. He analyses the weakness of […]

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Journal article

Gender and power relations in a bureaucratic context: female immigrants from Ethiopia in an absorption centre in Israel

01/12/2001

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gender and power relations in a bureaucratic context: female immigrants from Ethiopia in an absorption centre in Israel

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Overview

In this article, I discuss the ways in which the bureaucracy of absorption centres in Israel disempowered Ethiopian women immigrants by promoting a strict gender division of labour within a ‘family unit’ that reflected wider social structures in Israel. In their interactions with Ethiopian immigrants, the officials running the absorption centres enhanced the idea of […]

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Research report

Asylum: The truth behind the headlines

23/10/2001

1 documents

19 pages long

Languages: English

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Refugees and IDPs

Overview

This report arose from a serious concern about the quality of press coverage on asylum in Scotland, and the degree to which asylum seekers arriving in the country are badly affected by the negative coverage that they receive in the Scottish press. It aims to explore how this adverse treatment in sections of the press […]

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Briefing paper

Proposed Reforms to UK Asylum Policy: Oxfam’s response

01/10/2001

1 documents

11 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

On 29 October 2001, the Home Secretary announced the outcome of the vouchers review, together with a broad range of additional proposals for the radical reform of UK asylum policy. A further announcement of anti-terrorism measures followed on 17 November. Some of these proposals will require legislation: a White Paper on the measures set out […]

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Research report

Extractive Sectors and the Poor

01/10/2001

1 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English

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Extractives

Overview

This paper examines how states that rely on oil and mineral exports address the concerns of the poor. Its central finding is that oil and mineral dependence are strongly associated with unusually bad conditions for the poor. To explain this link, it draws on both original econometric analyses, and recent academic studies.

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Research report

A Proposed Mine in Tambogrande, Peru: An Alternative Look

15/09/2001

2 documents

30 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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Extractives

Overview

“The findings of this report demonstrate that the proposed Tambo Grande openpit gold mine, if approved, is likely to have negative, long-term impacts on water quality and quantity, the general environment, and possibly agriculture. Further, claims that Manhattan Minerals and the Peruvian government have made regarding the lack of impacts cannot be substantiated by the […]

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Research report

Welcome or Over-Reaction?: Refugees and asylum seekers in the Welsh media

14/05/2001

1 documents

61 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

In the 1990s the issue of refugees and asylum seekers has become highly politicised in the UK. Locally, regionally and nationally some politicians have used the issue of refugees claiming asylum in the United Kingdom to gain support for their own political parties. The national media focussed their reporting on the issues in London and […]

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Journal article

Islamic business and business as usual: a study of firms in Egypt

01/02/2001

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

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Overview

Fifteen Egyptian firms producing goods and services were classified into two sets by method of finance, i.e. profit sharing for the seven Islamic versus debt-at-interest for the eight non-Islamic firms. Interviewed in 1993 and 1994, the two groups were found to be similar in customer relations and market behaviour and in paternalism towards employees. However, […]

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Discussion paper

Beyond Civil Rights: Developing economic, social, and cultural rights in the uk

01/01/2001

1 documents

75 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

With the implementation of the Human Rights Act in 2000, the mainly civil and political rights set out in the European Convention on Human Rights are, for the first time, directly enforceable in UK law. While welcoming this significant advance, the authors argue that protection should be extended to the full range of economic, social, […]

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