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Understanding poverty in rural Mexico (2008)
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Poole, N. (2008). Understanding poverty in rural Mexico

In situations where inequality and ethnicity are important aspects of poverty, policymakers need to understand the range of strategies people use to survive. Different groups within communities use different livelihood strategies, according to their... Read More about Understanding poverty in rural Mexico.

Calcutta Botanic Garden and the colonial re-ordering of the Indian environment (2008)
Journal Article
Axelby, R. (2008). Calcutta Botanic Garden and the colonial re-ordering of the Indian environment. Archives of Natural History, 35(1), 150-163. https://doi.org/10.3366/E0260954108000144

This article examines three hand-painted colour maps that accompanied the annual report of the Calcutta Botanic Garden for 1846 to illustrate how the Garden’s layout, uses and functions had changed over the previous 30 years. The evolution of the Cal... Read More about Calcutta Botanic Garden and the colonial re-ordering of the Indian environment.

How cash transfers promote the case for basic income (2008)
Journal Article
Standing, G. (2008). How cash transfers promote the case for basic income. Basic Income Studies, 3(1), 1-30. https://doi.org/10.2202/1932-0183.1106

There has long been a minority view that providing people with cash is an effective way of combating poverty and economic insecurity while promoting livelihoods and work. The mainstream view has nevertheless been that giving people money, without con... Read More about How cash transfers promote the case for basic income.

The Australian Charter of Employment Rights: The missing dimensions (2008)
Journal Article
Standing, G. (2008). The Australian Charter of Employment Rights: The missing dimensions. Journal of Industrial Relations, 50(2), 355-366. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022185607087908

Just prior to the 2007 General Election, a group of labour lawyers and economists, broadly sympathetic to the Labor Party, produced a Charter of Employment Rights. This article examines the Charter's proposals and its underlying framework, and sugges... Read More about The Australian Charter of Employment Rights: The missing dimensions.

Does Climate Change Alter the Agenda for the Bottom Billion? (2008)
Digital Artefact
Hedger, M., & Tanner, T. (2008). Does Climate Change Alter the Agenda for the Bottom Billion?

Climate change will make the plight of the Bottom Billion even worse, being both an economic development issue and now a global security concern. Paul Collier does not highlight climate change but it is likely to impact the Bottom Billion, exacerbati... Read More about Does Climate Change Alter the Agenda for the Bottom Billion?.

Does Climate Change Alter the Agenda for the Bottom Billion? (2008)
Digital Artefact
Hedger, M., & Tanner, T. (2008). Does Climate Change Alter the Agenda for the Bottom Billion?

Climate change will make the plight of the Bottom Billion even worse, being both an economic development issue and now a global security concern. Paul Collier does not highlight climate change but it is likely to impact the Bottom Billion, exacerbati... Read More about Does Climate Change Alter the Agenda for the Bottom Billion?.

Climate Change, Food Security and Disaster Risk Management (2008)
Preprint / Working Paper
Vincent, K., Tanner, T., & Devereux, S. Climate Change, Food Security and Disaster Risk Management

Review article of recent literature on the Democratic Republic of Congo. (Nzongola-Ntalaja: The Congo from Leopold to Kabila, Trefon (ed): Reinventing Order in the Congo, and Clark (ed): The African Stakes of the Congo War) (2008)
Journal Article
Marriage, Z. (2008). Review article of recent literature on the Democratic Republic of Congo. (Nzongola-Ntalaja: The Congo from Leopold to Kabila, Trefon (ed): Reinventing Order in the Congo, and Clark (ed): The African Stakes of the Congo War). Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory, 16(1), 225-238. https://doi.org/10.1163/156920608X276378

By survival in conditions that are murderous, by evading forms of control and de-linking from the system, people in Congo ultimately limit the reach of the power imposed on them. They have to a great extent isolated, and to a lesser degree diminished... Read More about Review article of recent literature on the Democratic Republic of Congo. (Nzongola-Ntalaja: The Congo from Leopold to Kabila, Trefon (ed): Reinventing Order in the Congo, and Clark (ed): The African Stakes of the Congo War).

Ambiguous Agreements: Aid in Negotiating processes (2008)
Journal Article
Marriage, Z. (2008). Ambiguous Agreements: Aid in Negotiating processes. Conflict, Security & Development, 8(1), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1080/14678800801977021

The ambiguity of the agreements made in situations of war between parties with differing interests, power bases and incentives to act is crucial political territory. Tracing the dynamics by which negotiations take place between aid providers and part... Read More about Ambiguous Agreements: Aid in Negotiating processes.

Congo Basics (2008)
Journal Article
Marriage, Z. (2008). Congo Basics. Folk roots, 304, 43-45

Congolese musicians do the best they can with what they’ve got in a country on its knees from war and a collapsed economy. Zoe Marriage reports from Kinshasa on the struggles of Show Musica