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A public access codebook for the international development research community
Arno TAUSCH
Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Innsbruck University, Austria
E-mail: Arno.Tausch@uibk.ac.at
Box 1: The independent variables
% women in government, all levels is one of the UNDP’s long-term lead indicators of the institutionalization of political feminism. We time-lagged the variable and measured the it by around 1998. It was documented in the NDP HDR 2000. The idea of the indicator is to capture the real advance of women not only at the level of the top political administration of a given country, but at the general level of the central government, i.e. taking the important decision-making ministerial bureaucracies into account as well.
Continue reading 41 Indicators of Development
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July 17, 2010 |
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 Just a few days before Netanyahu’s last visit to the White House, the Washington Post (June 25) run a story about Shimon Peres urging the United States and other world powers to engage with Hamas in order to persuade the hardliner group to renounce violence and prepare for peace with Israel. As the Obama administration was preparing to receive the Israeli Prime Minister, the influential magazine Foreign Policy (July 4) run an opinion by Michele Dunne (Editor of Carnegie’s Arab Reform Bulletin), in which she suggests that if Washington does not need at this point to engage directly Hamas, it can do it indirectly. Dunne contends that the only way out of the stalemate is to encourage the reconciliation between Fatah and Hamas instead of impeding it, and to make of it the basis to “broker a power-sharing arrangement,” without which any further negotiations about an Israeli-Palestinian peace would be pipedream. Continue reading Will They Talk?
By Hichem Karoui The Gulf Today, July 10, 2010 Iran’s nuclear ambitions will not ease the country’s tense relationships with the international community, since the UN and the Western powers seem determined to follow through with sanctions. Nor President Ahmadi Nejad’s defiance encouraged by the conservative wing of the Mollahs will ease the country’s internal [...]
By Hichem Karoui The Gulf Today, July 03, 2010 Several Western and Arab observers share the views concerning the current evolution in the region of North Africa, especially regarding the connection between Islam and the problems of political and economic development. There is an acknowledgment, for example, that “the rise of unemployment and frustrations of [...]
Suguna Pathy
Department of Sociology, Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, Surat-395007, India.
E-mail:sugunapathy@gmail.com.
Anthropology in general has colonial roots and these influences are still in existence. British colonial policy in Africa and Asia began to change in the 1930s thus, it was suddenly decided to “develop” the colonies. This paper is aimed at objectively studying the process of change without committing itself to any particular policy. The skepticism of colonialism and its arrogant assumption of omniscience and opposition to the existing social order were analyzed. The colonial regime was engaged in the expansion of cash economy and missionary approach. Accordingly anthropologists were cast into the mould of the colonial stereotypes and monolithic notions with functionalist overtones which were the keynote of the colonial anthropology of that time. The functionalist studies dealt with family life, customs, folklore, economic activities and religion. Subsequently, several monographs emerged on the gamut of culture and integration emphasizing diffusionism. The studies were largely based on relations between the individuals occupying specific roles in social structure. By and large, anthropological studies have completely ignored the genesis and basis of social relations, class formation, conflict, contradictions and the question of gender in particular. Precisely this is the crucial point which economic anthropology-formalism, substantivism, structuralism and materialism approach, respectively. In the present exercise an attempt is made to briefly appraise these schools of thought. Continue reading Diverse approaches in economic anthropology: Some reflections
Strobe Talbott
President, The Brookings Institution- U.S. Deputy Secretary of State (1994-2001)
Occasional Paper Number 23, February 2005; Center for the Advanced Study of India
(…)Strobe Talbott was President Clinton’s “point man” in the intensive talks between India and Pakistan in the two and a half years that followed the nuclear tests you will all recall, in May 1998. The immediate results of those tests, coming on top of decades of estrangement, was what has been charitably described as an acrimonious standoff between India and the United States. Efforts to dig out from that deep and dangerous hole led to the most intensive diplomatic engagement ever between the U.S. and India. Deputy Secretary Talbott and Minister of External Affairs, Jaswant Singh, met no less than 14 times, in seven countries and on three continents. Their efforts, and the mutual trust they were able to develop, were major contributors to the reduction of tensions between India and Pakistan, tensions which many feared at the time could lead to nuclear holocaust (…) Continue reading From Estrangement to Engagement: U.S. – India Relations since May 1998
The High Growth Economy and Why it is Sustainable.
Mr. Sunil Bharti Mittal
Founder, Chairman, and Group Managing, Director, Bharti Enterprises /// Center for the Advanced Study of India- Occasional Paper No. 25, February 2006.
Introduction by Dr. Francine R. Frankel
(Director, Center for the Advanced Study of India)
I am Francine Frankel, director of the Center for the Advanced Study of India, and it is my great pleasure this evening to introduce our speaker for CASI’s Annual Lecture, Sunil Bharti Mittal, the founder, chairman, and group managing director, Bharti Enterprises. I hardly need tell this audience that Bharti Tele-Ventures is India’s leading telecom conglomerate and its largest mobile service operator. Continue reading India’s New Entrepreneurial Classes:
By Hichem Karoui
The Gulf Today (June 26, 2010)
What hindered President Obama from giving heed to the peace promises he had pledged in his famous Cairo speech? Is it the oil spill or the Bush legacy? Maybe both?
It is normal that the “oil spill” takes much of President Obama’s attention and time while the Middle East slips steadily into more violence. For does it matter that the last Pew Survey noticed the same rates of popularity for Obama in the world, insofar as in his own country the president is increasingly criticised by the right? Nor his reduced popularity among the Muslim nations (according to the same survey) would change anything in the situation, since the next elections will happen in the USA, and not abroad. Continue reading Oil spill or Bush heavy legacy?
Summer 2010  The EU’s enthusiasm for reshaping global governance has dwindled, and now looks more like indifference. Pedro Solbes and Richard Youngs warn that the EU not only risks the debate being shaped elsewhere but may even find itself left out of the discussion altogether.
The reform of global economic governance is still firmly on policymakers’ radar screens, but there is little evidence that since London’s G20 Summit in April last year the EU has developed a forward-looking or coherent approach to the new forms of global governance that G20 leaders had committed to. Continue reading Europe is failing to shape the global governance debate
By Richard Youngs*
FRIDE
Democracy assistance needs to be re-energised. The author lays out the main concerns of civil society organisations in states on the receiving end of democracy support and offers recommendations on how to improve donor strategies and design more demand-led policies. Continue reading How to revitalise democracy assistance: Recipients’views
Some New Cross-National Evidence
Arno Tausch*
Alternatives: Turkish Journal of International Relations, Vol. 9, No. 1, Spring 2010
Abstract
The current paper investigates the cross-national relevance of dependency theory and world systems theory for eight dimensions of development. The main emphasis is on indicators of sustainable development, and our essay comprises in all 36 main dependent variables. They are part of the dimensions of democracy, gender justice, high quality tertiary education, economic growth during the outgone economic cycle until 2008 and projected economic growth after 2009, the environment, human development, employment, and social cohesion on a global scale by a new. Our 175 nation analysis, using 20 main predictors of development tries to confront the very basic pro-globalist assumptions of the “Lisbon process”, the policy target of the European leaders since the EU’s Lisbon Council meeting in March 2000 to make Europe the leading knowledge-based economy in the world with a “globalization critical perspective”. A realistic and politically useful analysis of the “Lisbon process” has to be a “Schumpeterian” approach. We analyze the “Lisbon performance” of the world economy by multivariate, quantitative means, looking into the possible contradictions that might exists between the dependent insertion into the global economy and other goals of the “Lisbon process”. Continue reading Passive Globalization and the Failure of the European Union’s Lisbon Strategy, 2000-2010:
A Treatise ON THE ORIGIN AND SPONTANEOUS DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIETY
Lester F. Ward
From the PREFACE
I make no claim to priority in the use of the term pure sociology. It is but natural that those who regard sociology as a science should divide the science, as other sciences are divided, into the two natural departments, pure and applied. But as the term „pure sociology“ has been freely used for several years by certain European sociologists, it seems proper to explain that the matter for this work has been accumulating in my hands for many years. I should perhaps rather say that sociological material has been long pouring in upon me, and that the first classification that was made of it was into such as related to the origin, nature, and genetic or spontaneous development of society, and such as related to means and methods for the artificial improvement of social conditions on the part of man and society as conscious and intelligent agents. The first of these classes I naturally called pure sociology, the second, applied sociology. Continue reading PURE SOCIOLOGY
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