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Delivering development: Globalization's shoreline and the road to a sustainable future
"Carr's concern is that development and globalization, as currently pursued, are creating more poverty than they solve, needlessly producing economic and environmental challenges that put everyone on Earth at risk. Confronting this paradoxical outcome head-on, Carr questions the "wisdom" of the traditional development-via-globalization strategy, a sort of connect-the-development-dots, by arguing that in order to connect the dots one must first see the dots. By failing to do so, agencies do not understand what they are connecting and why. This fundamental questioning of Post WWII development strategies, grounded in life along "Globalization's Shoreline," sets his approach to development in the age of globalization apart from much of the contemporary development literature."--Michael H. Glantz, Director, CCB (Consortium for Capacity Building), INSTAAR, University of Colorado "Over the fifty years since the end of the colonial era, rich nations have granted Africa billions of dollars in development aid - the equivalent of six Marshall Plans - and yet, today, much of the continent is as desperate as ever for help. In Delivering Development, Edward Carr delves into the question of why the aid system has failed to deliver on its promises, and offers a provocative thesis: that economic development, at least as international donors define it, is not necessarily equal to advancement. Unlike many combatants in the debate over the causes of global poverty, who jet in and out of these countries and offer the view from 10,000 feet, Carr takes a novel approach to the problem. He examines the aid system as it is actually experienced by poor Africans. Delivering Development focuses on a pair of Ghanaian villages, which despite their poverty by statistical measures have nonetheless managed to construct sophisticated systems of agricultural cultivation and risk management. Carr doesn't argue that these places hold the secret to ending poverty. On the contrary, his point is that there are no overarching solutions, that each community holds a unique set of keys to its own future. By delving into development at the grassroots, Carr reveals the rich and bedeviling complexity of a problem that, all too often, is reduced to simplistic ideological platitudes."--Andrew Rice, author of The Teeth May Smile but the Heart Does Not Forget: Murder and Memory in Uganda.
Properties and projects: reconciling resilience and transformation for adaptation and development
In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development, Band 122, S. 70-84
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Livelihoods as Intimate Government: Reframing the logic of livelihoods for development
In: Third world quarterly, Band 34, Heft 1, S. 77-108
ISSN: 1360-2241
Book Review: Richey, L.A. and Ponte, S. 2011: Brand aid: Shopping well to save the world
In: Progress in development studies, Band 13, Heft 2, S. 172-175
ISSN: 1477-027X
The place of stories in development: creating spaces for participation through narrative analysis
In: Development in practice, Band 20, Heft 2, S. 219-226
ISSN: 1364-9213
The millennium village project and African development: problems and potentials
In: Progress in development studies, Band 8, Heft 4, S. 333-344
ISSN: 1477-027X
The Millennium Village Project (MVP) has come to embody hope for a new development path that might succeed where previous efforts have failed. A closer consideration of this project, however, suggests that this hope might be misplaced. Because of a general dearth of critical thought in key areas of project conceptualization, the MVP risks reproducing the problems of previous top-down, expert-driven development efforts. This article examines the conceptual issues raised by this absence of critical thought, and the reasons why project supporters have generally overlooked these issues. It then presents a critical grassroots framework which, if incorporated into existing MVP practices, might allow for the creation of a realistic, sustainable development path in Africa.
Men's Crops and Women's Crops: The Importance of Gender to the Understanding of Agricultural and Development Outcomes in Ghana's Central Region
In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development, Band 36, Heft 5, S. 900-915
Rethinking poverty alleviation: a 'poverties' approach
In: Development in practice, Band 18, Heft 6, S. 726-734
ISSN: 1364-9213
Managing Uncertainty: Environmental and Economic Security in Coastal Ghana, 1970-2000
In: Regional development dialogue: RDD ; an international journal focusing on Third World development problems, Band 23, Heft 1, S. 20-36
ISSN: 0250-6505
Introduction: engaging critically from theory to policy and implementation
In: Third world quarterly, Band 35, Heft 3, S. 505-506
ISSN: 1360-2241
Conclusions – engaging critical perspectives in development policy and implementation
In: Third world quarterly, Band 35, Heft 3, S. 524-527
ISSN: 1360-2241
Understanding Women's Needs for Weather and Climate Information in Agrarian Settings: The Case of Ngetou Maleck, Senegal
In: Weather, climate & society, Band 8, Heft 3, S. 247-264
ISSN: 1948-8335
Abstract
While climate services have the potential to reduce precipitation- and temperature-related risks to agrarian livelihoods, such outcomes are possible only when they deliver information that is salient, legitimate, and credible to end users. This is particularly true of climate services intended to address the needs of women in agrarian contexts. The design of such gender-sensitive services is hampered by oversimplified framings of women as a group in both the adaptation and climate services literatures. This paper demonstrates that even at the village level, women have different climate and weather information needs, and differing abilities to act on that information. Therefore, starting with preconceived connections between identities and vulnerability is likely to result in overgeneralizations that hinder the ability to address the climate-related development and adaptation needs of the most vulnerable. Instead, as is demonstrated in this paper, the design and implementation of effective gender-sensitive climate services must start with the relevant social differences that shape people's livelihoods decisions and outcomes, including but not limited to gender.
Seeing REDD+ as a project of environmental governance
In: Environmental science & policy, Band 14, Heft 2, S. 100-110
ISSN: 1462-9011
Who Should be Interviewed in Surveys of Household Income?
In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development, Band 38, Heft 7, S. 966-973