Sökning: "development efforts"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 1163 avhandlingar innehållade orden development efforts.
1. Governing Development : The Millennium Development Goals and Gender Policy Change in Sub-Saharan Africa
Sammanfattning : Recent decades have witnessed an upsurge in the use of different forms of global performance assessments as a means to influence the behavior of states. Within the area of international development, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) reinforced the practice of development governance through global performance indicators (GPIs) and gained considerable agenda-setting power among the international development community. LÄS MER
2. (Dis)assembling Development : Organizing Swedish Development Aid through Projectification
Sammanfattning : The rolling out of governing arrangements related to marketization and managerialization has characterized contemporary societies over the last decades, signaling a radical change in how governance is organized. A particular form of governing that has been given impetus during this transformation is the project. LÄS MER
3. Development and Resilience : Re-thinking poverty and intervention in biocultural landscapes
Sammanfattning : The practices related to the growing, harvesting, preparation, and celebration of food over millennia have given rise to diverse biocultural landscapes the world over. These landscapes – rich in biological and cultural diversity – are often characterised by persistent poverty, and, as such, are often the target of development interventions. LÄS MER
4. Development and 'The other within': the culturalisation of the political economy of poverty in the Northern Uplands of Viet Nam
Sammanfattning : The dissertation deals with the issue of poverty in eight villages in Northern Viet Nam during the current Doi Moi reforms. In all reforms, poverty alleviation has been a main concern for which market economy and economic growth have been seen as largely successful tools. However, in parallel to economic growth, the social inequality has increased. LÄS MER
5. Skola och medier : Aktiviteter och styrning i en kommuns utvecklingssträvanden
Sammanfattning : Over time, the state has undertaken various reforms to govern the development of education. The issue of using new media may be seen as such an example. A change in the use of media in education imposes great challenges on both municipalities and teachers. LÄS MER
