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Examining New Donors in the OECD's Development Assistance Committee
Journal of International Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How do emerging donors integrate into the existing international aid architecture? While the existing literature focuses largely on emerging donors from the Global South, such as Brazil, China, India and Russia, there are many emerging donors from the Global North that have joined the OECD's Development Assistance Committee (DAC)—the premier ...
Nicolas Bau +3 more
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Sociologie Românească, 2001 Population growth had an important influence on architecture, as it determined increasing of construction volume, especially houses. Built houses are meant to endure for few generations.
Trăilă Cernescu
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Journal of International Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Field visits are common phenomena with non‐governmental organisations in Uganda. During these visits, Ugandan national staff guide visitors on series of meetings and interactions in the field. Following an actor‐oriented approach and drawing on ethnographic data on 14 field visits, this paper understands the field visit as a microcosm for the ...
Caspar Edward Swinkels
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Sociologie Românească, 2000 The paper presents the main dimensions of the intergeneration educational and socio-occupational mobility in Romania (rate of total mobility, ascendant and descendant mobility.
Corneliu Cârțână
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Gender Differences in Multidimensional Poverty in Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries
Journal of International Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite the growing demand for gender‐disaggregated statistics on poverty, there is hardly any cross‐country evidence of gender disparities in poverty. The paper contributes to filling this gap, by using two novel individual‐level indices of multidimensional poverty.
Francesco Burchi, Daniele Malerba
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Trafic de femei - o perspectivă sociologică
Sociologie Românească, 2000 It is often a common view that trafficking in women is a phenomenon that law enforcement should deal with. The perception of the deviant nature of this phenomenon cannot ignore the need of a scientific, general approach from a sociological and economical
Sebastian Lăzăroiu
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From Empire to Aid: Analysing Persistence of Colonial Legacies in Foreign Aid to Africa
Journal of International Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT For decades now, Western development agencies and donors have been castigated for their colonial biases in providing aid to Africa. It is well established that donors provide considerably more foreign aid to their former colonies relative to other countries.
Swetha Ramachandran
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Sociologie Românească, 2001 This article presents the evolution of social stratification during the period of modem Romania's birth as well as the way it was reflected in the between-wars social ideas.
Corneliu Cârțână
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Between Practicality and Politics: Factors of Sub‐National Aid Allocation in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Journal of International Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Bosnia and Herzegovina represents a unique case of aid recipient for its complex history and administrative and political divisions. Yet, little is known about how foreign aid is allocated to local recipients. This qualitative study uncovers factors shaping sub‐national aid allocation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, highlighting donors' and ...
Lenka Dušková +5 more
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Let Us Get Regional: Exploring Prospects for Biomass-Based Carbon Dioxide Removal on the Ground
CIn recent years, research on carbon dioxide removal (CDR) has significantly increased. Numerous studies have analyzed demonstration projects, outlined scenarios, modeled pathways, or focused on CDR’s national or international governance.
Danny Otto, Nils Matzner
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