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A Response to Critics

Mahmood Mamdani
- 01 Apr 1991 - 
- Vol. 22, Iss: 2, pp 351-366
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This article is published in Development and Change.The article was published on 1991-04-01. It has received 18 citations till now.

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Stall in fertility decline in Eastern African countries: regional analysis of patterns, determinants and implications

TL;DR: It is suggested that declines in contraceptive use, increases in unmet need for family planning, increasing preferences for larger families, and increases in adolescent fertility were consistently associated with stalls in subgroup fertility across all four Eastern African countries.
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The Politics of African Industrial Policy: A Comparative Perspective

TL;DR: The case for economic transformation and industrial policy in Africa is discussed in this article, where the authors assess the economic transformation in Africa by considering economic transformation theory and clientelism in the political economy of development.
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Mass Taxation and State-Society Relations in East Africa

TL;DR: In East Africa, as in many other agrarian societies in the recent past, most people experience direct taxation mainly in the form of poll taxes levied by local governments as mentioned in this paper.
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Religion, infertility and assisted reproductive technology

TL;DR: This chapter describes religion in general before discussing the centrality of its concern for family formation and the impact of infertility on religious people, and two areas that have caused concern for the religions are discussed.
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Christian Ethics and Contemporary Moral Problems

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a survey of dogmatic Christian ethics in the context of sexual ethics, focusing on the following: 1. Turning the world upside down - and some other tasks for dogmaticChristian ethics 2. Christian anthropology at the beginning and end of life 3. The practice of abortion: a critique 4. Economic devices and ethical pitfalls: quality of life, the distribution of resources and the needs of the elderly 5. Why and how (not) to value the environment 6. On not begging the questions about biotechnology 7. "Who are my mother and
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Uganda: Contradictions of the IMF Programme and Perspective

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the real issue in contemporary Uganda is not one of the state or the market, but of the transformation of relations internal to both from the point of view of democratization.