Showing papers in "Progress in Development Studies in 2016"
TL;DR: Work-related insecurities offer a conceptual umbrella for the conditions that a large number of workers in the global North and South experience as discussed by the authors, intersecting with social and political marginalization.
Abstract: Given ongoing changes in the world of work that affect both developing and industrialized countries, we argue that it is time to bring the notions of informal and precarious work together. Work-related insecurities offer a conceptual umbrella for the conditions that a large number of workers in the global North and South experience. They emerge in the context of neoliberal globalization, intersecting with social and political marginalizations. This offers starting points for intervention. For instance, for precarious workers’ struggles to be successful, organizational strength needs to be combined with the forging of coalitions that transcend class identities.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors trace the mounting interest in, and visibility of, girls and young women in development (WID) policy, especially since the turn of the twenty-first century when a "Smart Economics" approach was used for the first time.
Abstract: This article traces the mounting interest in, and visibility of, girls and young women in development (WID) policy, especially since the turn of the twenty-first century when a ‘Smart Economics’ ra...
37 citations
TL;DR: In many parts of Africa, the spread of grid electrical networks into rural areas has remained a pernicious challenge as discussed by the authors, and there has been a persistent bias towards expanding electricity access to urban areas.
Abstract: In many parts of Africa, the spread of grid electrical networks into rural areas has remained a pernicious challenge. There has been a persistent bias towards expanding electricity access to urban ...
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors use the term "retroliberalism" to describe the aid regime that has evolved out of the post-Global Financial Crisis (GFC) world order.
Abstract: This article coins the term ‘retroliberalism’ to describe the aid regime that has evolved out of the post-Global Financial Crisis (GFC) world order. This approach sees a partial return to the principles of classical liberalism with respect to the role of the state vis-a-vis the market, whilst also perpetuating a number of the principles of neoliberalism. At the same time, the rejuvenation of an active state harks back to modernization principles prevalent in the 1950s and 1960s. In describing this regulatory shift we suggest that a retroliberal ‘manual’ for aid practice can be discerned. Our analysis utilizes evidence from recent reforms in a range of Western aid donors that are members of the United Nation’s DAC, including the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the Netherlands. It also offers some comment on the increasing role and influence of non-traditional donors such as China in shaping the new regime. Ultimately, we argue that this state-led post-industrial modernization that serves...
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TL;DR: The authors discusses migrants' experiences of European migration-labour and shows how precariousness is materialized in migrants' work and lives, and how the subordination of migrants to the d...
Abstract: This article discusses migrants’ experiences of European migration-labour. It shows how precariousness is materialized in migrants’ work and lives. I show how the subordination of migrants to the d...
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TL;DR: In this paper, the International Labour Conference adopted a Domestic Workers Convention after a 2-month process, and the International Organization of Industrial Relations (IOLR) adopted a domestic workers convention after a two-month period.
Abstract: This article addresses labour struggles in one of the largest informal occupations: domestic work. In June 2011, the International Labour Conference adopted a Domestic Workers Convention after a 2-...
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TL;DR: The results suggest that precariousness is a central notion to explore objective degrees of the quality of work that cut across formal/informal boundaries.
Abstract: This article critically analyzes the conceptual and operational relationship between informality and quality of employment in light of the problems of job security in Colombia. It demonstrates that...
21 citations
TL;DR: The crisis of global financial-led growth reflects evidence of exhaustion of the current model of accumulation, which has been in place since the late 1970s, characterized by lower growth rates and...
Abstract: The crisis of global financial-led growth reflects evidence of exhaustion of the current model of accumulation, which has been in place since the late 1970s, characterized by lower growth rates and...
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors make a case for privileging women's perception and voice and add to the literature that does this using a case study from Pakistan using micro-credit.
Abstract: This paper reviews feminist critiques, both on conceptual and empirical grounds, of the contention that microcredit empowers women. It also reviews other critiques of microcredit as being pushed by a neo-liberal agenda to extend the domain of the market or as a development panacea while not really representing authentic development. It makes a case for privileging women’s perception and voice and adds to the literature that does this using a case study from Pakistan.
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TL;DR: This article reviewed and codified an emerging strand of literature that transcends the narrow assumptions of economic models of corruption and theorizes much more carefully the social structures within which corruption takes place.
Abstract: Since the mid-1990s, an ‘anticorruption consensus’ has emerged in international development policy: because corruption is taken to be invariably deleterious for investment and growth, eliminating or reducing corruption has come to be seen as a necessary precondition for development. This article takes issue with the theoretical and empirical underpinnings of this proposition. To do so, it reviews and codifies an emerging strand of literature that transcends the narrow assumptions of economic models of corruption and theorizes much more carefully the social structures within which corruption takes place. This body of research, which heralds a ‘sociological turn’ in corruption studies, provides a robust framework to account for the economic effects of corruption in specific country contexts and suggests that fighting corruption per se might not always be necessary for development; in fact, it might sometimes prove counterproductive.
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TL;DR: Analyses of labour contracting crucially inform studies of labour informalization and precarious work in industrial systems and production networks as discussed by the authors, and challenging conceptualizations emphasizing contrabands emphasizing contr...
Abstract: Analyses of labour contracting crucially inform studies of labour informalization and precarious work in industrial systems and production networks. Challenging conceptualizations emphasizing contr...
TL;DR: The authors identified a growing number of workers falling outside the regulatory net of both the state and the trade union movement in South Africa on the basis of an examination of working conditions and conditions.
Abstract: This article identifies a growing number of workers falling outside the regulatory net of both the state and the trade union movement in South Africa on the basis of an examination of working condi...
TL;DR: The outsourcing of housekeeping, laundry and food services in Vancouver's health care sector has created a new tier of low-paid, precariously employed workers in the private sector as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: The outsourcing of housekeeping, laundry and food services in Vancouver’s health care sector has created a new tier of low-paid, precariously employed workers in the private sector, the majority of...
TL;DR: In this article, differently situated actors in Norway and Ethiopia relate to global gender and development policies and interpret the concept gender equality, and they show that a universalizing notion of gender equality can be found in both countries.
Abstract: This paper explores how differently situated actors in Norway and Ethiopia relate to global gender and development policies and interpret the concept gender equality. We show that a universalizing ...
TL;DR: By unearthing the connections between the literatures on participatory communication and civic engagement with the reality of postconflict peace, the authors demonstrates how a communication for discourse can be used for post-conflict conflict resolution.
Abstract: By unearthing the connections between the literatures on participatory communication and civic engagement with the reality of postconflict peace, this article demonstrates how a communication for d...
TL;DR: The most crucial obstacle to equitable innovation and development is the tension between profit incentives and social justice as discussed by the authors, which is the main obstacle that hinders the development of sustainable and equitable technologies.
Abstract: The most crucial obstacle to equitable innovation and development is the tension between profit incentives and social justice. In the egalitarian tradition of social and political thought, there ha...
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that lack of coordination among donors poses several problems: it results in higher administrative costs for both donors and partner countries and weakens aid effectiveness, and this rationale is the basis for their work.
Abstract: Lack of coordination among donors poses several problems: it results in higher administrative costs for both donors and partner countries and weakens aid effectiveness. This rationale is the basis ...
TL;DR: The authors refocuses attention on the intersection of material and psychosocial transfers, which reveals temporal and gendered complexities, and argues that a human wellbeing lens is potentially useful as a unifying framework to integrate these ideas as it interrogates what living well means over the life course.
Abstract: Research on intergenerational transmissions of poverty and inequality has tended to focus on material transfers. This paper refocuses attention on the intersection of material and psychosocial transfers, which reveals temporal and gendered complexities. It examines three key ideas emerging from the life course literature (relationality, intersectionality and intergenerationality) to shed light on how these complexities might be addressed. It is argued that a human wellbeing lens is potentially useful as a unifying framework to integrate these ideas as it interrogates what living well means over the life course and how it is constructed relationally.
TL;DR: Wendy Harcourt, W.W. and Nelson, I.L. as discussed by the authors, 2015: Practising Feminist Political Ecologies: Moving beyond the 'Green Economy'.
Abstract: Wendy Harcourt, W. and Nelson, I.L., editors. 2015:Practising Feminist Political Ecologies: Moving beyond the ‘Green Economy’. London: Zed Books. 326 pp. £65 (hardback). ISBN: 9781783600885
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze the events surrounding a strike by Afghanistan's provincial councils in 2015 and argue that the events reflected competition between patronage networks in the country's m....
Abstract: This article analyzes events surrounding a strike by Afghanistan’s provincial councils in 2015. It argues, first, that the events reflected competition between patronage networks in the country’s m...
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated whether colonialism is alive in contemporary German development cooperation (GDC) on obstetric care in Tanzania and compared present-day interventions to German policy in "German East Africa" (GEA) at the beginning of the 20th century.
Abstract: This article investigates whether colonialism is alive in contemporary German development cooperation (GDC) on obstetric care in Tanzania. Drawing on archives and interviews, it compares present-day interventions to German policy in ‘German East Africa’ (GEA) at the beginning of the 20th century. It argues that contemporary development cooperation can be considered colonial to a certain extent in that it is marked by a combination of racialization, developmentalism and trusteeship. However, colonial power today is fractured as German development professionals’ accounts of their work display a considerable degree of hesitancy and doubt. This article contributes to the knowledge on colonialism and development by discerning colonial power in the under-researched case of GDC as well as in the context of concrete policy and practice in a particular field of intervention.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that rapid agricultural growth, the benefits of which are broadly diffused, promotes structural change and economic development via a process which has, for the most part, gone unrecognized.
Abstract: This article argues that rapid agricultural growth, the benefits of which are broadly diffused, promotes structural change and economic development via a process which has, for the most part, gone unrecognized. Specifically, broad-based agricultural growth produces legitimacy for the political elite and this allows them to restructure the coalition upon which they depend. Thus, the influence on policy of the agrarian and/or merchant based elites can be reduced while that of manufacturing and export manufacturing based elites increased. Government policy can then be successfully reoriented to promote growth in manufacturing via structural change. The experience of Costa Rica is used to illustrate these ideas.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors link two theoretical concepts, co-management and sustainable livelihood approach (SLA), to formulate an evaluative framework for comanagement of forest institutions and their associated livelihood outcomes.
Abstract: Co-management of forest resources has gained acceptance among governments, development agencies and development practitioners as an alternative natural resources management strategy to the top-down or centralized government management approach. However, a significant methodological issue in the current literature on evaluation of co-management institutional arrangement is how to link these institutions with sustainable livelihood outcomes of the poor forest dependent communities. To address this limitation, there is need for linking co-management with the sustainability of the community, effectively for the sustainability of its livelihood. This article links two theoretical concepts—co-management and sustainable livelihood approach (SLA)—to formulate an evaluative framework for co-management of forest institutions and their associated livelihood outcomes.
TL;DR: Ncube, Mthuli and Lufumpa, Charles Leyeka, editors. as mentioned in this paper, 2015:The Emerging Middle Class in Africa, a survey of Africa's emerging middle class.
Abstract: Ncube, Mthuli and Lufumpa, Charles Leyeka, editors. 2015:The Emerging Middle Class in Africa. Abingdon and New York: Routledge 215 pp. $47.40 (paperback). ISBN: 978-1138796430 (paperback). $140 (hardcover). ISBN: 978-1138796423.
TL;DR: Ensor, Jonathan, Berger, Rachel and Huq, Saleemul, editors. 2014: Community-based Adaptation to Climate Change: Emerging Lessons as discussed by the authors, published by Practical Action Publishing.
Abstract: Ensor, Jonathan, Berger, Rachel and Huq, Saleemul, editors. 2014: Community-based Adaptation to Climate Change: Emerging Lessons. Rugby, UK: Practical Action Publishing. Chapters 11, 216 pp.. £17.95 (paperback). ISBN: 9781780447919.
TL;DR: Grugel, Jean and Bishop, Matthew L. 2014: Democratization: A Critical Introduction (2nd edition). London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 400 pp. £27.99 paperback as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Grugel, Jean and Bishop, Matthew L. 2014: Democratization: A Critical Introduction (2nd edition). London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 400 pp. £27.99 paperback. ISBN 978 0 230 22057 7.
TL;DR: Li et al. as discussed by the authors, Tania 2014: Land's End: Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier Durham and London: Duke University Press 225 pp £5500 (cloth), £1599 (paper) ISBN 978-0-8223-5694-3 (library cloth edition), 978-1.5705-6 (print edition)
Abstract: Murray Li, Tania 2014: Land’s End: Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier Durham and London: Duke University Press 225 pp £5500 (cloth), £1599 (paper) ISBN 978-0-8223-5694-3 (library cloth edition), 978-0-8223-5705-6 (paper)
TL;DR: Ukaga, O., Ukiwo, U.O., and Ibaba, I.S., editors, 2012: Natural Resources, Conflict, and Sustainable Development: Lessons from the Niger Delta as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Ukaga, O., Ukiwo, U.O. and Ibaba, I.S., editors, 2012: Natural Resources, Conflict, and Sustainable Development: Lessons from the Niger Delta. New York/Oxford: Routledge. 174 pp. £85.00 hardback, £30.90 paperback, £28.50 e-book. ISBN: 10: 0415806917 (hardback). ISBN: 041575450X (paperback).
TL;DR: Clammer, John as mentioned in this paper, art, culture and international development: Humanizing social transformation. London and New York: Routledge. 2015:Art, Culture and International Development, Humanizing Social Transformation.
Abstract: Clammer, John. 2015:Art, Culture and International Development: Humanizing Social Transformation. London and New York: Routledge. 168 pp. £90.00 (hardback), £48.93 (paperback), £25.64 (ebook). ISBN: 978 1 138 02471 7 (hardback), 978 1 138 02472 4 (paperback), 978 315 77555 5 (ebook).
TL;DR: Bourn, Douglas as mentioned in this paper, 2015: The Theory and Practice of Development Education: A Pedagogy for Global Social Justice. New York: Routledge. 222 pp. £95.00 clothbound, £29.99 paperback, £23.51 e-book.
Abstract: Bourn, Douglas. 2015: The Theory and Practice of Development Education: A Pedagogy for Global Social Justice. New York: Routledge. 222 pp. £95.00 clothbound, £29.99 paperback, £23.51 e-book. ISBN: 978-1-138-80476-0 (clothbound). ISBN: 978-1-138-80477-7 (paperback). ISBN: 978-1-315-75273-0 (e-book).