Guest Roast: Poverty – Who is to blame?
By David Harper. Who’s to blame for poverty? Is it the poor themselves? Or society? Or is it just bad luck or fate? Just over forty years ago, American sociologist Joe Feagin asked over a thousand...
View ArticleGuest Roast: Bad news? Sick and disabled people in British media
By Dr. Kayleigh Garthwaite For the past three years, I have been studying the lives of long-term sickness benefits recipients in North East England, U.K. as part of my PhD research. In that time,...
View ArticleGuest Roast: Good Governance and Development – Which causes which?
By Edvin Arnby Machata The international development community has for almost two decades focused on improving governance as a strategic priority for aiding economic growth. This article points to the...
View ArticleHasta Siempre Commandante: The Legacy of Hugo Chávez
By Nikole Hyndman The death of Hugo Chávez rocked the world of international relations. As foreign governments scrambled to make public condolence statements, the world remembered just what a...
View ArticleGuest Roast: Why all borders are man-made: A response to DevRoast
In historical narratives encouraged by nation states and internalized by most of us, borders often take a natural character, enforcing the nation state as a ‘natural’ and ‘inevitable’ fact. However,...
View ArticleGuest Roast: Building an inclusive model around extractive industries in Peru
By Ricardo Morel Berendson The mining boom in Peru during the 1990s attracted private investment that led to current economic growth. However, this did not translate into sustainable development of the...
View ArticleWhat does migration have to do with on-farm conservation? A field report from...
By Giulia Maria Baldinelli Although this fact may not be immediately obvious to most people outside the region, the Bolivian Altiplano is the origin and heart of much of the world’s agricultural...
View ArticleGuest Roast: Kaya Children International – Comprehensive Protection for...
By Lucia Cuno UNICEF estimates that the total number of street children in the world runs into the tens of millions. A study by Toybox, a Christian charity committed to helping street children in Latin...
View ArticleThe Universidad Académica Campesina – Carmen Pampa: a College for Bolivia’s...
by Rachel Satterlee Bolivia is a beautiful, mountainous country that is very culturally diverse but which also has many inequities. None are more pronounced that those in education: As of 2004,...
View ArticleWhy is it important to cooperate with Middle Income Countries?
By Cecilia Juambeltz* In the field of international cooperation, particularly in development cooperation, much is said of High, Middle and Low Income Countries. This characterization may only seem as a...
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