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The growing urbanization of poverty poses a significant challenge to governments and donors alike, particularly in Asia, which houses 60 per cent of the world’s slum dwellers. Donors have been slow to respond to the urban challenge, however, both in their funding patterns and their priorities....
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centralized organization of political power and less concentrated forms of aid allowed intermediate class political entrepreneurs …
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Vietnamese refugee resettlement across four Western countries. In the light of the Taliban return to power in August 2021, we …
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working women are concentrated in home-based activities. There have been various attempts to explain this, with some focusing … on economic explanations which stress women's education and skills, domestic responsibilities, and household wealth while … require women to remain within the home. This paper combines data from a purposively designed survey of women from different …
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women in South Asian societies. This paper examines this tenet in the context of India, with particular emphasis on possible … policies relating to women's empowerment against a backdrop of rapid urbanization. -- urbanization ; women ; malnutrition …
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The story of South Asia is a topsy-turvy one. Soon after independence from British rule, the region seemed to have a much better prospect than many other parts of the Third World; the prospects soon dimmed, however, as South Asia crawled while East and Southeast Asia galloped away. But a large...
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probability is exogenously set, suggesting that the institutional power to choose detection can itself be corruptive. …
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Particular sets of institutions, once they become established in a society, have a strong tendency to persist. In this paper I argue that understanding how elites form and reproduce is key to understanding the persistence of institutions over time. I illustrate this idea with a simple political...
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military victory, the coercive balance-of-power at the end of war favourable to the victor enables it to dictate the post …-conflict institutional design and skew power formally in its favour. In a negotiated settlement, formal power is distributed by design among … of informal power in the post-war context whose influence is exercised through private networks of party members and …
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This paper sets out to investigate the wellbeing of women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). It undertakes … spatial and temporal comparisons of women's wellbeing using data from the Demographic and Health Survey and the Multiple … improvement and deterioration of women's welfare across the DRC over a three-year period (2007 - 10). …
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