La question du financement de l’éducation en Afrique est habituellement abordée sous l’angle du montant et de l’allocation des ressources. Très peu d’attention est portée à la manière…
Mamphela Ramphele, successful businesswoman and one of few outspoken black voices, offers both indictment and inspiration. In her new book she touches upon: the distrust between South Africa's peop…
Written for managers of community groups and non-government organizations in the North and South, this book aims to describe how to think critically about what kinds of information they, their orga…
In this groundbreaking collection with its diverse perspectives, feminist thinkers explore whether Third World women ought to continue along the path of development or abandon full-scale modernizat…
This Social Watch Report goes to print in September 2009, a year after the US Government failed to rescue Lehman Brothers from bankruptcy. The collapse of this global investment bank marked the pea…
This Social Watch report is the product of citizen coalitions from over forty countries. Each country summary is the result of many weeks of research, consultations and debate. The authors come fro…
This annual Social Watch report monitors the progress of the MDGs and poverty reduction using a gendered approach. Divided into three areas it covers: themed discussions, monitoring progress, and n…
* Details the effects of structural adjustment policies imposed on agriculture, and their effect on gender relations within rural areas in the developing world * Empirically grounded case studies …
In this refreshingly revisionist history, Erik S. Reinert shows how rich countries developed through a combination of government intervention, protectionism, and strategic investment—rather than …
Four world conferences on women’s issues have been organised under the auspices of the United Nations. The 3rd International World Women’s Conference held in Nairobi in 1985 forms the pivot of …
Extrait de la couverture : "Globalization has intensified the pressures on poor women. They have resisited in both the North and the South in movements that are exclusively female or where women pl…
The next leap forward in mankind’s socioeconomic evolution, or a scam perpetrated by evil transnational corporations to bust unions and impoverish the masses? Either way, globalization is here to…
Le leadership des femmes et leur participation à la vie politique sont partout menacés. Les femmes sont sous-représentées aussi bien comme électrices que dans les fonctions dirigeantes, au sei…
The founding of the League of Nations marked the beginning of organized and institutionalized intergovernmental collaboration in a form which was unprecedented in world history. This was the firs…
Concentrating on selected sites in the rural Eastern Cape province of South Africa and using such methods as time-use diaries, this study addresses inequities in social, political, and economic dev…
The convergence of global political and economic forces, agendas and ideologies had impacted significantly on the lives of African communities, particularly African women, and there was a call for …
I am delighted to be invited to deliver the Founders’ Day Lecture of the University, and I thank the Governing Council, Vice-Chancellor and Management of the University of Benin for the honor. …
In Common Wealth, Jeffrey D. Sachs-one of the world's most respected economists and the author of The New York Times bestseller The End of Poverty- offers an urgent assessment of the environmental …
Written for managers of community groups and non-govermental organizations in the North and South, this book aims to describe how to think critically about what kinds of information they, their org…
The idea of partnerships - involving multinational donors, governments, international non-government organisations, the private sector, civil society, and local communities - is increasingly curren…