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Ensuring respect for indigenous cultures: A moral rights approach
Vézina, Brigitte - 2020
From commercials to movies to fashion, Indigenous artworks have been misused in ways that are offensive to the artists who created them and disrespectful of the cultures that inspired them. Using Indigenous traditional cultural expressions (TCEs) without acknowledging their sources or providing...
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Majority-minority constellations: Towards a group-differentiated approach
Koopmans, Ruud; Orgad, Liav - 2020
Multiculturalism has taken a life of its own, swinging too far in one direction. The authors claim that the rapidly changing reality calls for a new majority-minority theory and argue that the moral justifications for cultural minority rights should also apply to majority groups. They present...
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Bolivia's New Constitution: Towards Participatory Democracy and Political Pluralism?
Schilling-Vacaflor, Almut - 2010
In Bolivia, rights to increased political participation and the recognition of indigenous political systems are interrelated. The new constitution of 2009, a prime example of the 'new Andean constitutionalism', defines Bolivia as a representative, participatory and communitarian democracy. It...
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Turning Legal Pluralism into State-Sanctioned Law: Assessing the Implications of the New Constitutions and Laws in Bolivia and Ecuador
Barrera, Anna - 2011
Ethnically diverse societies have long faced the challenge of accommodating distinct and often conflictive normative orders within a single polity. Leaving the ideal of a single, homogeneous legal order aside, many Latin American states have recently acknowledged the right of indigenous peoples...
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Democratizing Resource Governance through Prior Consultations? Lessons from Bolivia's Hydrocarbon Sector
Schilling-Vacaflor, Almut - 2012
With the recent expansion of extractive industries in Latin America, contestations with the affected communities have increased in number and intensity. Therein, the indigenous right to prior consultation and to free, prior and informed consent has played a crucial role. Based on the empirical...
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Zunehmende Verschuldung durch Mikrokredite: Auswertung eines Experiments in Südindien
Nilges, Thorsten - 2005
Dieser Beitrag behandelt die Implementation von Mikrokrediten sowie deren Folgen für die sozioökonomische Entwicklung der indischen Ureinwohner Adivasi in der Region Gudalur im indischen Bundesstaat Tamil Nadu. Die Fallstudie handelt von den individuellen Erfahrungen von 10 'self-help-groups'....
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Does Management Matter in Schools?
Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Van … - 2014
We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year …-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational … outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …
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The mechanics of central bank intervention in foreign exchange markets
Basu, Kaushik - 2009
Central banks in developing countries, wanting to devalue the domestic currency, usually intervene in the foreign exchange market by buying up foreign currency using domestic money-often backing this up with sterilization to counter inflationary pressures. Such interventions are usually...
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Access of the poor to water supply and sanitation in India: Salient concepts, issues and cases
Jha, Nitish - 2010
Access to safe water is necessary for lives and livelihoods. In India, a mid-term assessment reveals that the country … factors constrain access to safe drinking water and proper sanitation in India for both the urban and rural poor, and that … such an institutional arrangement if the transition to community management is carried out smoothly. Often, however, the …
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The Puzzling Decline in Rural Women's Labor Force Participation in India: A Reexamination
Neff, Daniel; Sen, Kunal; Kling, Veronika - 2012
Between 2004/2005 and 2009/2010 there was a sharp fall in female labor force participation (LFP) in rural India. Why …
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