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Towards a Feasible Social Security System in Kenya
Project | Jul 2004 - Dec 2005
Developing countries are devoting increasing attention to social security as part of their poverty reduction policies. This project investigates ...
Social security, Kenya, Poverty reduction
Kriser og kriger – er det bruk for oss nå?
Journal Article | Jan 2017
Kriser og kriger – er det bruk for oss nå? - Nr 01 - 2017 - Norsk antropologisk tidsskrift - Idunn - tidsskrifter på ...
Anti-corruption through a social norms lens
U4 Issue | Oct 2018
A social norms approach can help practitioners design effective anti-corruption reforms. Social norms in communities, families, and organisations ...
Statistical evidence on social and economic exclusion in Nepal
Statistical evidence on social and economic exclusion in NepalBook | Oct 2010
The discourse on social exclusion in Nepal is very ideological, with some authors considering basically all Nepalis as socially excluded except ...
Nepal
Judicial protection of the right to health in Colombia: From social demands to individual claims to public debates
Judicial protection of the right to health in Colombia: From social demands to individual claims to public debatesJournal Article | Jun 2010
Even in a region characterized by a number of countries with robust constitutions and judicial enforcement of social rights, Colombia stands ...
Colombia
"As long as they don't bury me here". Social relations of poverty in a Namibian shantytown
"As long as they don't bury me here". Social relations of poverty in a Namibian shantytownBook | Jan 2011
An increasing number of poor Southern Africans live in poverty-stricken urban slums or shantytowns. Focusing on four shantytowns in the northern ...
Namibia
The Social Life of Economic Inequalities in Contemporary Latin America: Decades of Change
The Social Life of Economic Inequalities in Contemporary Latin America: Decades of ChangeEdited Book | Jan 2018
This edited volume examines how economic processes have worked upon social lives and social realities in Latin America during the past decades. ...
Monografia de Município de Kalandula
Monografia de Município de KalandulaBook Chapter | Mar 2018
O Relatório Social de Angola 2016 faz um balanço analítico do que mais relevante ocorreu no sector social, no ano em apreço, ...
Angola, Poverty, Gender
Development from below and oil money from above. Popular organization in contemporary Venezuela
Development from below and oil money from above. Popular organization in contemporary VenezuelaBook Chapter | Jan 2012
Since Hugo Chavez came to power in Venezuela in 1998, large parts of the country's vast oil resources have been diverted towards social spending ...
Venezuela
Accountability for leadership participation in universal crimes and the role of judges
Accountability for leadership participation in universal crimes and the role of judgesEvent | 22 Apr 2014
How can we understand and ensure accountability for heinous crimes linked to power structures in society - including core international crimes such as genocide and crimes against humanity?
Social Development and Investment. The Cases of Botswana and Malaysia
Project | Aug - Dec 2003
This case study project is related to an attempt by the World Bank to come up with a set of measurable social indicators. The Bank wishes to: ...
Malaysia Botswana Social Development Investment, Africa: Botswana., Asia: Malaysia
No state of disarray. An evaluation of the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development
Report in External Series | Jan 1997
This is an evaluation report of the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD). The evaluators found that UNRISD's research ...
Research, United Nations, Global
Kampen for sosiale rettigheter: Er rettssalen riktig arena?
Journal Article | Jan 2003
Struggles for social rights – are the courts a suitable battleground? International social and economic rights are recognised as law in ...
Social rights, South Africa, India, constitutional litigation, Africa: South Africa
Feasible Social Security Systems in Africa
Journal Article | Jan 2008
Increasing attention is being devoted to social security in developing countries as part of their poverty reduction strategies. This article ...
Social security
Harnessing the power of communities against corruption. A framework for contextualising social accountability
U4 Brief | Aug 2018
Ignorance, apathy and disempowerment are recurring drivers of impunity. Social accountability, on its part, aims to empower citizens with information ...
The uses and abuses of social programmes: the case of conditional cash transfers
The uses and abuses of social programmes: the case of conditional cash transfersU4 Brief | Jul 2010
Social programmes have been increasingly used by developing countries to fight poverty and have attracted growing budgets. However, it has been ...
political corruption, Peru
Constitutional grafts and social rights in Latin America
Constitutional grafts and social rights in Latin AmericaBook Chapter | Jan 2013
The 1917 Mexican Constitution, which was adopted after a revolutionary period, decisively changed the history of Latin American constitutional- ...
development studies, development studies, law - academic, comparative law, constitutional and administrative law
The social uses of livestock among pastoralists in Sudan: Food systems, stores of value, wealth, power, and authority
The social uses of livestock among pastoralists in Sudan: Food systems, stores of value, wealth, power, and authoritySudan Working Paper | Dec 2014
The impact of livestock on the economy of Sudan and its social uses within the pastoral sector are of great importance in the future development ...
Social uses of livestock among pastoralists, land grabbing, Sudan's domestic and export economy, pastoral transformation, Sudan
Rettsstat og demokrati
Rettsstat og demokratiBook Chapter | Jan 2004
Struggles for social rights - are the courts a suitable battleground? International social and economic rights are recognised as law in many ...
Social rights, South Africa, India, constitutional litigation, Africa, South Africa
Social rights judgments and the politics of compliance: Making it stick
Social rights judgments and the politics of compliance: Making it stickEdited Book | Feb 2017
The last few decades have witnessed an explosion of judgments on social rights around the world. However, we know little about whether these ...