28. ON THE ROLE OF THE STATE, THE UN AND CIVIL SOCIETY.
Human Rights are plainly not guaranteed by the existing institutional arrangements. (AmartyaSen) We have to understand this as a point…
27. DEVELOPMENT AND RIGHTS: THE UNDENIABLE NEXUS.
For this issue of the Reader, I find it fitting to excerpt and adapt from Mary Robinson’s (High Commissioner of…
26. CAVEAT EMPTOR: A PARTICIPATORY APPROACH IS NOT A HUMAN RIGHTS APPROACH!
Beware: The fashion is out. Everybody wants to jump into the bandwagon of Human Rights. It is coming to our…
25. FOOD FOR DONORS DEEP THOUGHTS
It should be clearer to many of you by now that focusing on sustainable poverty alleviation is inseparable from bringing…
24. FOOD FOR NGO’S DEEP THOUGHTS.
In the 2001 World Development Report devoted to poverty, it is stated that there are limits to a micro-level approach…
23. ON STATISTICS.*
Statistics create subjects; they tell stories and shape cultures. Over the past five decades, development practitioners have prided themselves on…
22. VARIATIONS ON A THEME BY THE CHILEAN WRITER ISABEL ALLENDE.
Inspired, extracted (plagiarized) and paraphrased from her novel “The Daughter of Fortune”, Plaza y JanesEditores SA, Barcelona, 1999, pp 296-301.…
21. ON MORALITY, FREEDOM, CHOICES, JUSTICE AND THE NEED FOR PEOPLE’S POWER.
Variations on a theme by South African Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer.Inspired, plagiarized and paraphrased from her novel “A Sport…
20. ON DEVELOPMENT, THE REAL WORLD, POWER GAMES AND THE UGLY FACES OF GREED
Variations on a theme by the Danish writer Peter Hoeg. Inspired, extracted (plagiarized) and paraphrased from his short story “Reflections…
19. HEALTH SECTOR REFORM AND THE UNMET NEEDS OF THE POOR: A CRITIQUE
I have been re-reading some of the Health Sector Reform (HSR) and health and poverty literature. I have been amazed…