Archive for the ‘Development’ Category

Global Financial Crisis and Fragile States

BY AGNIESZKA PACZYNSKA Over the last three years food and fuel price increases followed by the global financial crisis have placed tremendous strains on fragile and post-conflict states, raising concerns about their ability to maintain political and social stability. At the same time, what these multiple crises have revealed is that even countries in remote [...]

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Posted by admin on March 13th, 2010 1 Comment

Long-term Care and Migrant Health Workers: Considering Responsibilities

BY LISA ECKENWILER Thanks in part to over a century of progress in public health and medicine, many people are enjoying longer lives.  These changing demographics are generating a greater need for long-term care (LTC).  In the US, while there has been considerable debate concerning the nature and extent of future LTC needs given declining [...]

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Posted by admin on March 12th, 2010 No Comments

EU Politics of Foreign Aid in the Balkans: Development, Integration, and Reform in Perspective

BY ARNAUD KURZE After over half a century of modern foreign aid practices, a vast literature has addressed the question of aid effectiveness1, particularly with regards to the questionable and perturbing record of poverty alleviation in least developed countries. Since the 1990s, however, post-Soviet countries and the war-torn Balkan region have also appeared on the [...]

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Posted by admin on March 7th, 2009 No Comments

Paving The Way For Neoliberal Development: Urban Transformation And The Mega-Event

BY TONY SAMARA In 2010 Cape Town, South Africa will host a number of soccer matches for the World Cup, including one of the semi-final matches. That same year New Delhi, India, will host the Commonwealth Games, and Shanghai, China the World Expo. Different as they are,  all three cities confront an urban population marked [...]

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Posted by admin on March 1st, 2009 No Comments

Blood Diamonds of the Digital Age: Coltan and the Eastern Congo

BY JEFFREY W. MANTZ Nobody likes to hear about blood diamonds, that something venerated as our culture’s highest token of commitment and affection comes to us haunted by specters of oppression, cruelty and murder. It took a 2006 film with Leonardo DiCaprio playing the role of a diamond-embezzling South African mercenary and a $100 million [...]

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Posted by admin on November 11th, 2008 No Comments

Oil Crisis in the Global South: A View from Mexico’s Gulf Coast

BY LISA BREGLIA Across the frontlines of energy production in the Global South, an oil crisis is long simmering. This is not an oil crisis as we already know it: in other words, a crisis stimulated by market models of supply and demand, or a crisis abstractly negotiated by giddy futures speculators, or even a [...]

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Posted by admin on November 11th, 2008 No Comments

Encounters with the Local Perceptions of Global Climate Change in Northeastern Siberia

BY SUSAN A. CRATE Imagine making a trip to Siberia stereotypically perceived as the Gulag and a frozen wasteland only to discover an extraordinarily diverse part of the world. Not only in terms of plant and animals—just consider Lake Baikal, the deepest, oldest lake in the world holding one-fifth of the world’s fresh water and [...]

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Posted by admin on November 11th, 2008 No Comments

Food, Protest and Political Instability in Central Asia

BY ERIC MCGLINCHEY The local impact of global climate change is suddenly acutely present in Central Asia. A coincidence of extended drought in Central Asia and Australia and the transfer of food crops to ethanol production have resulted in a dramatic spike in commodity prices throughout Eurasia. Importantly, Central Asia is not alone in confronting [...]

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Posted by admin on June 18th, 2008 No Comments

What Does US Assistance for Eurasia Have to Do with Foreign Aid?

BY SADA AKSARTOVA Throughout the 1990s, the most ambitious American efforts to promote market and democracy were directed at Russia and other post-Soviet states. The enormity—physical and symbolic—of the Soviet Union, the rapidity of its collapse and the sheer scale of the economic and political transformation in its successor states presented Western policy makers with [...]

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Posted by admin on June 18th, 2008 No Comments

The Gulag’s Foundation In Kazakhstan

  BY STEVEN A. BARNES In early March 2006, I visited a graveyard in the empty Central Asian steppe near Spassk, just south of the city of Karaganda, Kazakhstan. This cemetery held the unmarked remains of prisoners of the former Soviet Union’s Gulag—the notorious system of forced labor concentration camps and internal exile—and the multi-national [...]

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Posted by admin on June 18th, 2008 No Comments