Naomi Hossain, Mick Moore
Summaries The Bangladeshi national elite are distanced from and unthreatened by poverty and the poor. Medium-term solutions to poverty, resting on a belief in the importance of ‘increasing awareness’ through education, rather than in direct public action, are favoured. The poor are viewed as homogen...
Kristopher K. Robison
Abstract Some scholars argue that terrorism has few adverse consequences for political and civil liberties in democracies and that fears about a reversal of freedoms due to counterterror programs are unjustified. However, anecdotal evidence suggests that democracies respond to terrorism in ways that...
Naomi Hossain, Mick Moore
T Hussey, Africa Athanasius, George Mbogo, Brenda Mccoard et al.
Louise B. Firth, Andrea Desiderato, Antony M. Knights, J. David Aguirre et al.
ABSTRACT Aim We investigated how local‐scale environmental heterogeneity influences biodiversity patterns across broad biogeographic gradients, using intertidal microhabitats as a model system within one of the most environmentally stressful ecosystems on Earth. Location Intertidal habitats at 26 lo...
Buddhadasa Hewavitharana, Tony Beck, Mick Moore, Matthias Lutz et al.
Money‐Go‐Rounds: The Importance of Rotating Savings and Credit Associations for Women. Edited by Shirley Ardener and Sandra Burman. Berg Publishers, Oxford. 1995.Geertz, C. 1962, ‘Rotating Credit Association, a “Middle Rung” in Development’, Economic Development and Cultural Change Vol.1, No.3.Rural...
Christopher G. Scott, Eric Clayton, Keith Watson, Matthew Lockwood et al.
An Inquiry into Well‐Being and Destitution. By Partha Dasgupta. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. Pp.xviii + 661. £39.50 (hardback). ISBN 0 19 828756 9 More People, LessErosion. By Mary Tiffen, Michael Mortimore and Francis Gichuki. Chichester: Wiley, 1994. Pp.311. £22.50. ISBN 0 471 94143 3 Educating ...
Olufẹmi Vaughan, Roger Charlton, Alf Stadler, Richard Dale et al.
The State in Africa: The Politics of the Belly by Jean‐Francois Bayart (London: Longman, 1993, pp.370, £14.99). Botswana: The Political Economy of Democratic Development edited by Stephen John Stedman (Boulder & London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1993, pp.ix + 214, £27.50 hb). South Africa's Crisis o...
Mick Moore, R.L. Stirrat, Sunanda Sen, Tony Beck et al.
Abstract Southeast Asian Capitalists. Edited by Ruth McVey. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University, Southeast Asia Program, 1992. Pp.219. NP. ISBN 0 87727 708 7. Practising Development: Social Science Perspectives. By Johan Pottier. Pp.x + 222; bibliography. London: Routledge, 1993. £40 (hardback); £12.99 (...