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Odious in the eye of beholder | Development, Aid and Finance
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Development, Aid and Finance. An exploration of poverty and aid. Odious in the eye of beholder. September 8, 2014. Photo credit: Daveybot / Foter / Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0). Odious in the eye of beholder. Bolton, P and Skeel, D 2007, ‘Odious debts or odious regimes? Law and Contemporary Problems, vol.70, no.4, pp.83-107, viewed 2 September 2014, Academic Onefile. Bush, R, Martiniello, G, and Mercer, C, 2011, ‘Humanitarian imperialism’, Review of ...
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CRITICAL REFLECTION #1: Boomerang Aid, Tied Australian Aid | Development, Aid and Finance
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Development, Aid and Finance. An exploration of poverty and aid. CRITICAL REFLECTION #1: Boomerang Aid, Tied Australian Aid. August 10, 2014. Photo credit: Theen …. One thing that was surprising in ‘Does foreign aid really work? By Riddell (2007) is that, at of 53 per cent, Australia has tied more of its aid than any other country (Riddell, 2007), essentially turning these into ‘stimulus packages’ for the private sector. And lastly, the government’s motivation for providing aid is driven more by politica...
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REFLECTION: ROSCAs, rotating credit , rotating countries but same communities | Development, Aid and Finance
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Development, Aid and Finance. An exploration of poverty and aid. REFLECTION: ROSCAs, rotating credit , rotating countries but same communities. April 29, 2013. The Vietnamese have a long tradition of rotating credit groups or ROSCAs known as Chơi hụi or simply as hụi (Hernández Coss, 2006. The bare basics of how hụi works:. A group of individuals who know and trust each other get together to form a hụi group (Pham and Lensink, 2008), groups can be a small or big. I have observed my partner’s family parti...
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DICUSSION: I choose you, lender preferences in peer to peer Microfinance Institutions | Development, Aid and Finance
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Development, Aid and Finance. An exploration of poverty and aid. DICUSSION: I choose you, lender preferences in peer to peer Microfinance Institutions. May 8, 2013. Photo credit: Kiva.org. Meet Minh a plaster mould maker from Vietnam, in early 2013 I have invested $25 USD in his business through Kiva.org and he is basically my first business partner. Funded in hours. Nicaraguan retail stand? Funded in days. A Bulgarian Taxi Driver? Funded in weeks (Flannery, 2007). Kiva’ s website has a Choose for Me opt...
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Aid transparency for who? | Development, Aid and Finance
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Development, Aid and Finance. An exploration of poverty and aid. Aid transparency for who? October 6, 2014. One thing that I found interesting is the use of technology and the Internet to present aid data for greater aid transparency spurned on by the growing ‘Open Data’ and Open Development movement (Mulley, 2010). The transparency initiatives provide us with another example of donor-dominated programs that is characteristic of the aid architecture (Mulley, 2010). Note: * Denotes an estimate. Korf, B 20...
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OPINION: Microfinance, does it deserve all the credit for empowering women? | Development, Aid and Finance
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Development, Aid and Finance. An exploration of poverty and aid. OPINION: Microfinance, does it deserve all the credit for empowering women? April 13, 2013. Microfinance, does it deserve all the credit for empowering women? I am sure you are thinking, Hang on, microfinance is meant to be empowering, liberating women from the shackles of poverty, and strengthening their social position in the family and society! Why is this happening? Include male relatives at the beginning of the microfinance program to ...