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HDR 2004 - Cultural Liberty in Today’s Diverse World
UNDP - Human Development Report Office, United Nations …
Accommodating people’s growing demands for their inclusion in society, for respect of their ethnicity, religion, and language, takes more than democracy and equitable growth. Also needed are multicultural policies that recognize differences, champion diversity and promote cultural freedoms, so...
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HDR 2003 - Millennium Development Goals: A Compact Among Nations to End Human Poverty
UNDP - Human Development Report Office, United Nations …
The new century opened with an unprecedented declaration of solidarity and determination to rid the world of poverty. In 2000 the UN Millennium Declaration, adopted at the largest-ever gathering of heads of state, committed countries — rich and poor — to doing all they can to eradicate...
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HDR 1997 - Human Development to Eradicate Poverty
UNDP - Human Development Report Office, United Nations …
Eradicating poverty everywhere is more than a moral imperative - it is a practical possibility. That is the most important message of the Human Development Report 1997. The world has the resources and the know-how to create a poverty-free world in less than a generation. The Report focuses not...
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HDR 1996 - Economic Growth and Human Development
UNDP - Human Development Report Office, United Nations …
The 1996 Report opens with a fundamental statement: "Human development is the end - economic growth a means." The Report argues that economic growth, if not properly managed, can be jobless, voiceless, ruthless, rootless and futureless, and thus detrimental to human development. The quality of...
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Ethiopia's productive safety net program : power, politics and practice
Cochrane, Logan; Tamiru, Y. - In: Journal of international development : the journal of … 28 (2016) 5, pp. 649-665
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Non-domination, contestation and freedom : the contribution of Philip Pettit to learning and democracy in organisations
Griffin, Martyn; Learmonth, Mark; Elliott, Carole - In: Management learning : the journal for managerial and … 46 (2015) 3, pp. 317-336
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Democratising economic power : the potential for meaningful participation in economic governance and decision-making
Thorpe, Jodie; Gaventa, John - 2020
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Participation as Enactment of Power in Dialogic Organisational Action Research. Reflections on Conflicting Interests and Actionability
Kristiansen, Marianne; Bloch-Poulsen, Jorgen - In: International Journal of Action Research 7 (2011) 3, pp. 319-346
The article focuses on participation as enactment of power in dialogic, organisational action research. The article has … a dual purpose: It shows how participation is enacted as power in processes between participating managers, employees … handle participatory processes when participation is conceptualised as enactment of power. This is done by reflecting …
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Walking the talk? A Micro-Sociological Approach to the Co-production of Knowledge and Power in Action Research
Olesen, Birgitte Ravn; Nordentoft, Helle Merete - In: International Journal of Action Research 9 (2013) 1, pp. 67-94
Foucauldian conception of power/knowledge in the exploration of how knowledge and power relations are negotiated in a workshop … which was a part of Action Research project in psychiatric setting. Few action research studies show in detail how power … has the potential to unpack the local workings of power. The analyses show how knowledge and power are intimately related …
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Attempts of a Participatory Approach to Helping Improve the Value and Appreciation of Geriatric Nursing in Germany – Looking at the “PflegeWert” Project from an Action Re-search Pe...
Nick, Claudia; Fuchs-Frohnhofen, Paul - In: International Journal of Action Research 9 (2013) 1, pp. 38-66
All collaborations can be characterised by power and participation and how those forces are distributed within the … sides exercise power and shared control over decision-making as well as interpretation” (ibid). In this paper we try to … analyse the relationships and structures of power in a project that dealt with the appreciation of nursing services in …
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