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Vulnerability of the unbanked : evidence from a developing country
2016
Financial exclusion is an apparent phenomenon globally, the majority of people without bank accounts living in the developing countries. Those who lack access to financial services could experience vulnerability. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to unfold the vulnerability of the low-income unbanked consumers in a Pakistani context. Qualitative data were gathered from low-income unbanked consumers through in-depth interviews. The findings suggest that unbanked consumers are vulnerable in many ways. The participants faced several negative consequences due to their financial exclusion, which resulted into their personal, economic and social detriment. Based on our study findings, we p…
A technological approach towards integrated solid waste management in developing countries
2017
This research is grounded in the planning concept of Integrated Solid Waste Management (ISWM). ISWM was developed to promote sustainability in the waste management for developing countries. Waste managers and policy makers in developing countries have been adopting the principles of ISWM into their waste strategies for several decades. But despite their many efforts, still important problems remain, as is the case of low collection coverage, lack of proper treatment of the different waste types, high dependency on final disposal sites and even in some cities uncontrolled dumping is still accepted as the only way to handle the waste. For that reason, waste management in developing countries …
Introduction
2020
This chapter provides a general introduction to the edited volume of Citizenship Practices in East Africa: Perspectives from Philosophical Pragmatism. It contextualizes the contribution of the book within three ongoing discussions: first, on the role of a normative starting point in development research; second, on the principle of philosophical pragmatism of starting theorizing from human practices; and third, on the efforts to conceptualize citizenship on the basis of everyday experiences. The chapter sets the main objectives of the book as to articulate a concept of citizenship based on philosophical pragmatism, to explore a variety of practices in which citizenship habits are acquired a…
Practices of Citizenship in East Africa : Perspectives from Philosophical Pragmatism
2020
Practices of Citizenship in East Africa uses insights from philosophical pragmatism to explore how to strengthen citizenship within developing countries. Using a bottom-up approach, the book investigates the various everyday practices in which citizenship habits are formed and reformulated. In particular, the book reflects on the challenges of implementing the ideals of transformative and critical learning in the attempts to promote active citizenship. Drawing on extensive empirical research from rural Uganda and Tanzania and bringing forward the voices of African researchers and academics, the book highlights the importance of context in defining how habits and practices of citizenship are…
Conclusions
2020
Environmental impact of household biogas plants in India local and global perspective
2004
Bretton Woods uudella vuosituhannella : kehityspolitiikka uusliberaalin käänteen jälkeen
2010
Maailmanpankki on ehkä merkittävin kehitysyhteistyön määrittelijä ja yhdessä toisen Bretton Woods -instituution, Kansainvälisen valuuttajärjestön IMF:n kanssa huomattava tekijä globaalissa talousjärjestelmässä. Instituutiot myöntävät talouspoliittisesti ehdollistettuja lainoja kehitysmaille, jotta ne pystyisivät kohentamaan elinolojaan sekä turvaamaan talouskasvun ja sitä myötä vähentämään köyhyyttä. Tutkimuksessani käyn läpi Bretton Woods- instituutioiden, etenkin Maailmanpankin, tapaa vähentää köyhyyttä kehitysmaissa. Tarkastelen, millaiseen ajatusmaailmaan sen voidaan katsoa perustuvan ja miten nykyinen, uusliberaali kehityspolitiikkaa on muotoutunut. Yksinkertaisin kysymys on, pystyykö …
Reimagining Civil Society Collaborations in Development : Starting from the South
2023
At a time when uneven power dynamics are high on development actors’ agenda, this book will be an important contribution to researchers and practitioners working on innovation in development and civil society. While there is much discussion of localization, decolonization and ‘shifting power’ in civil society collaborations in development, the debate thus far centers on the aid system. This book directs attention to CSOs as drivers of development in various contexts that we refer to as the Global South. This book take a transformative stance, reimagining roles, relations and processes. It does so from five complementary angles: (1) Southern CSOs reclaiming the lead, 2) displacement of the N…
Ympäristöterveys ja paikallinen riskihavainto - laadullisessa vertailussa maaseutu ja urbaani elinympäristö Nigeriassa
2002
In international development discourse more emphasis has been given to locality during recent years. Local dwellers and stakeholders should be more wholly involved in the environmental protection programmes based on the principles of sustainable development. Rising from Douglas’s theory of risks (1985) as a result of cultural and social negotiation process, the paper focuses on the process of the formulation of an environmental health risk. This is based on a community development risk cycle (ref. Clausen 1989). The qualitative data is from the fieldwork periods (1998, 1999 and 2001) to rural communities of Ile-Ife region, and an urban shantytown of Lagos, Nigeria, among the Yoruba ethnic g…