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During the 1990s several alarming reports have been filed concerning policy failures in Third World countries. They indicate that globalisation and the structural adjustment policies of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund... more
This article is concerned with a discussion of the plausibility of the claim that GM technology has the potential to provide the hungry with sufficient food for subsistence. Following a brief outline of the potential applications of GM in... more
Climate change has a profound impact on the planet, especially on developing countries – as highlighted by the Stern Report to the British government in 2006. One solution to mitigating environmental degradation and achieving better... more
This article proposes some clear definitions and taxonomies of scaling up, i.e., the processes by which grassroots organizations expand their impact. It then goes on to apply this taxonomy of scaling up to 25 Third World organizations... more
This paper is about the field of development management (previously development administration) and its continuities with the processes of imperial rule known as colonial administration. Development administration/management represents... more
The 1965 disappearance of Mehdi Ben Barka in Paris, the catalyst of one of the greatest political scandals in the history of post-war France, is still shrouded in mystery several decades later. Newly declassified documents from Czech... more
‘Third World Begins to Flex its Muscles’ – The Non-Aligned Movement and the North-South-Conflict during the 1970s, in: Sandra Bott, Jussi Hanhimaki, Janick Schaufelbuehl, Marco Wyss (Eds.), Neutrality and Neutralism in the Global Cold... more
Latin America and the Global Cold War analyzes more than a dozen of Latin America’s forgotten encounters with Africa, Asia, and the Communist world, and by placing the region in meaningful dialogue with the wider Global South, this... more
Eager to boost literacy, economic growth, and national institutions, Third World governments and international aid agencies have greatly expanded schooling since the 1950s. Enrollments have quintupled since the late ‘50s, from 100 million... more
Extracapsular cataract extraction with posterior chamber intraocular lens (IOL) implantation surgery using a technique developed by Dr. Sanduk Ruit of the Tilganga Eye Centre in conjunction with the Medical Directorate of the Fred Hollows... more
This text sets some landmarks for constructing an alternative history of human rights in modernity. This narrative supplements and destabilises the standard history, which usually takes into consideration events that ocurred within the... more
The Afrocentric view concerning Jamaicans who bleach their skins is that they suffer from self-hate, a result of the lingering psychological scars of slavery. The self-hatred thesis is tested by comparing the self-esteem scores of a small... more
Publicado en Museologia e Interdisciplinaridade, Instituto de Arte, Universidade de Brasília, v. 5 n. 10, 2016, pp. 117-131. ISSN: 2238-5436. Dossier “Art Museums, History and Knowledge”.... more
This paper examines the ripe moment to make peacemaking intervention in Third World conflicts. Data indicated that change promoted successful peacemaking. The paper argues that peaceable change is the best time to intervene.
Abstract: This review essay looks at the causes of the covert US intervention in Iran in 1953, which overthrew the government of Prime Minister Mohammed Musaddiq, and turned Iran into a de facto autocracy. The argument of the essay is... more
PANAFEST est un webdocumentaire à propos de duatre festivals panafricains majeurs des années 1960 et 70 : le premier Festival mondial des arts nègres (Dakar 1966), le premier Festival culturel panafricain (Alger 1969), Zaïre74... more
Unless the marital rape results in the wife succumbing to injuries, the story never steps out of the four walled room. She has been taken control of and molded by her in laws to fit right in, making her a robot in denial mode. Hence, such... more
The observations of Indonesia by the famous African American novelist Richard Wright during the 1955 Bandung Conference deserve to be read alongside Indonesian accounts, argue Keith Foulcher and Brian Russell Roberts.
South Africa has experienced FOUR oil crises in the 1970s. These crises affected South Africa but techno ethno-petro nationalism (apartheid) drove its four-pronged response that produced mixed results but played a significant role in the... more