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Human Resources, Labour Relations and Organization Effectiveness in Women Sector Organizations [in South Africa]
Women'sNet [South Africa], 1998Like other community and social service agencies, women sector organizations often reflect two shared characteristics a commitment to the notion of participative management most often the staff hired by such agencies have significant attachments to the 'values' of consensus, having a voice, and workplace democracy.While these characteristics are cornerstones in most women seDocumentCountry Gender Profile: South Africa
Women'sNet [South Africa], 1999Explores the dynamics of gender relations and the challenge of transforming gender inequalities in the broader economic and political context of South Africa’s transition to democracy and re-integration into the global economy.DocumentImplementing DFID’s Institutional Strategy Paper on Europe: A Research Agenda
Development Studies Association, UK and Ireland, 1999Report on a workshop held at the London Voluntary Sector Resource Centre, 14 June 1999.DocumentMore Conditions and Less Money: Shifts of Aid Policies during the 1990s
Development Studies Association, UK and Ireland, 1999Analyses the shifts in European aid policy caused by the fear of shifts of aid resources from South to Eastshifts away from proper aid in the strict sense of the OECD's own definitiona paradigm shift to justify giving less money and financing activities that seem more of interest to "donors" than recipients.Concludes that Until 1994 increasingly boosted ODA-sums hid bothDocumentAre Poverty Reduction and Other 21st Century Social Goals Attainable?
PovertyNet, World Bank, 1998Assesses empirically how attainable are two of the goals set by the OECD's Development Assistance Committee for the year 2015-halving the incidence of poverty and reducing child mortality by two-thirds.Finds that the evidence is mixed. Some countries appear likely to achieve the poverty goal, while others do not.DocumentTrade and the environment
World Trade Organization, 1999Argues that international economic integration and growth reinforce the need for sound environmental policies at the national and international level. International cooperation is particularly important in addressing transboundary and global environmental challenges beyond the control of any individual nation.Questions include: Is economic integration a threat to the environment?DocumentKorea: a new look at the fertility transition: its impact on women
Family Health International, 1998In 1962, the Government of South Korea established a national family planning policy designed to curb population growth. The two-child family became the norm, and total fertility fell from 6.0 children per woman in 1960 to 1.6 children per woman in 1990. At the same time, the country's economy prospered.DocumentThe Impact of Family Planning on the Lives of Egyptian Women
Family Health International, 1998In Egypt, previous research on women and family planning has focused on how various aspects of women's lives, such as education and employment, predict their use of family planning.DocumentThe Consequences of Family Planning for Women’ s Quality of Life [in Zimbabwe]
Family Health International, 1998Explores cultural constructions of quality of life in an effort to understand women’s and men’s views on how fertility, and how women’s participation or nonparticipation in activities inside and outside the household, may negatively or positively influence the quality of their lives. In 13 focus group discussions with women and three groups with men, invesDocumentImpact of Family Planning on Women’s Participation in the Development Process [in Zimbabwe]
Family Health International, 1998Examines the question of how family planning use may affect the ability of women to participate in the development process.Pages