International Development and Inclusive Development of Enterprises

2020 ◽  
pp. 123-156
Author(s):  
Lei Sun
Keyword(s):  
International Development ◽  
Inclusive Development

Addressing the Drivers of Digital Technology for Disability-Inclusive Development

2021 ◽  
pp. 32-57
Author(s):  
Charlotte McClain-Nhlapo ◽  
Deepti Samant Raja
Keyword(s):  
International Development ◽  
Technical Change ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Inclusive Development ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Success Stories ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
The Social ◽  
Digital Development

Digital technologies represent the fastest, broadest, and deepest technical change experienced in international development, affecting every sector. Inclusive and accessible technology increases access by persons with disabilities to markets, spaces, and services. This has raised opportunities as well as the stakes, to ensure that technology-driven development is inclusive of the diverse needs of persons with disabilities. Digital ecosystems can evolve to advance toward the social inclusion, economic self-sufficiency, and resilience of persons with disabilities. There are success stories, but also continuing inequities and gaps in access, affordability, and usage of technology by persons with disabilities. Ultimately, investments in infrastructure, skills, regulation, and institutions are necessary to ensure accessible and inclusive digital development.

Women's Health in Developing Countries: Beyond an Investment?

2010 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 543-567 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. S. Mohindra ◽  
Béatrice Nikiéma
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
International Development ◽  
Inclusive Development ◽  
International Programs ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Public Health Strategies

Most international programs and policies devised to improve women's health in developing countries have been shaped by powerful agencies and development ideologies, including the tendency to view women solely through the lens of instrumentalism (i.e., as a means to an end). In a literature review, the authors followed the trail of instrumentalism by reviewing the different approaches and paradigms that have guided international development initiatives over the past 50 years. The analysis focuses on three key approaches to international development: the economic development, public health, and women-gender approaches. The findings indicate that progressive changes have adopted a more inclusive development perspective that is potentially beneficial to women's health. On the other hand, most paradigms have largely viewed improving women's lives in general, and their health in particular, as an investment or a means to development rather than an end in itself. Public health strategies did not escape the instrumentalism entrenched in the broader development paradigms. Although there was an opportunity for progress in the 1990s with the emergence of the human development and human rights paradigms and critical advances in Cairo and Beijing promoting women's agency, the current Millennium Development Goals project seems to have relapsed into instrumentalism.

Critical Thinking on Disability and Development in the Global South

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shaun Grech
Keyword(s):  
International Development ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
Global South ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Inclusive Development ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Emerging Issues ◽  
Global North ◽  
Development Goals

The need to focus on disability in the Global South as an academic and practice endeavor has garnered some support in recent years, often backed by frequent references to a disability and poverty relationship, and a consequent need to link disability and international development. Indeed, calls for disability mainstreaming, disability targeting, and emerging discourse on disability-inclusive development (DID) have stepped up, accompanied by policy developments and declarations such as the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and the sustainable development goals (SDGS). Despite these shifts, disability remains marginalized in development research, policy, and programs. Overall, there is a lack of critical discussion on “disability and development,” and difficult questions, including those regarding the implications of development for disabled people, are often forsaken in favor of an approach that seeks to simplify and generalize. The result is that accounts on disability and development are not only partial and fragmented but also neocolonizing. Inspired by critical disability studies and decolonial theory, this chapter reflects critically on some of these concerns, addressing emerging issues that arise when Global North disability discourse and “development” confront complex and dynamic heterogeneous Southern spaces and disability.

scholarly journals Home > All Content > Vol 50, No 1 (2019) Exploring Research–Policy Partnerships in International Development Cover Page Edited by: James Georgalakis and Pauline Rose June 2019 Volume 50 Issue 1 This issue aims to identify how partnerships focused on the production of policy-engaged research seek to achieve societal impact and explores the challenges in these processes. The collaborations analysed span academia, civil society and government, from the grassroots to the national and global levels. By locating these examples within the broader debates on interactions between researchers and research users designed to strengthen evidence informed decision making, this publication offers concepts and practices to inform those funding, designing and undertaking development research. The featured case studies are explored through the perspectives of both researchers and their partners in civil society and policy. They are predominantly taken from a diverse portfolio of research projects funded through the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Department for International Development (DFID) Strategic Partnership. A collaboration with the Impact Initiative, this IDS Bulletin is essential reading for all those in research organisations, development agencies and donors committed to the better use of evidence and learning for development. Exploring Research–Policy Partnerships in International Development James Georgalakis, Pauline Rose DOI: 10.19088/1968-2019.100 ABSTRACT FULL ISSUE PDF Foreword Diana Dalton DOI: 10.19088/1968-2019.102 ABSTRACT PDFONLINE ARTICLE Introduction: Identifying the Qualities of Research–Policy Partnerships in International Development – A New Analytical Framework James Georgalakis, Pauline Rose DOI: 10.19088/1968-2019.103 ABSTRACT PDFONLINE ARTICLE Rethinking Research Impact through Principles for Fair and Equitable Partnerships Kate Newman, Sowmyaa Bharadwaj, Jude Fransman DOI: 10.19088/1968-2019.104 ABSTRACT PDFONLINE ARTICLE Pathways to Impact: Insights from Research Partnerships in Uganda and India Rachel Hinton, Rona Bronwin, Laura Savage DOI: 10.19088/1968-2019.105 ABSTRACT PDFONLINE ARTICLE Exploring Partnerships between Academia and Disabled Persons’ Organisations: Lessons Learned from Collaborative Research in Africa Maria Kett, Mark T. Carew, John-Bosco Asiimwe, Richard Bwalya, Anderson Gitonga, Boakai A. Nyehn, Joyce Olenja, Leslie Swartz, Nora Groce DOI: 10.19088/1968-2019.106 ABSTRACT PDFONLINE ARTICLE Layered and Linking Research Partnerships: Learning from YOUR World Research in Ethiopia and Nepal Vicky Johnson, Anannia Admassu, Andrew Church, Jill Healey, Sujeeta Mathema DOI: 10.19088/1968-2019.107 ABSTRACT PDFONLINE ARTICLE Fundamental Challenges in Academic–Government Partnership in Conflict Research in the Pastoral Lowlands of Ethiopia Mercy Fekadu Mulugeta, Fana Gebresenbet, Yonas Tariku, Ekal Nettir DOI: 10.19088/1968-2019.108 ABSTRACT PDFONLINE ARTICLE Regional Research–Policy Partnerships for Health Equity and Inclusive Development: Reflections on Opportunities and Challenges from a Southern African Perspective

IDS Bulletin ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicola Yeates ◽  
Themba Moeti ◽  
Mubita Luwabelwa
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
International Development ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Disabled Persons ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Strategic Partnership ◽  
Inclusive Development ◽  
Research Partnerships ◽  
The Impact

The Effect of Taxation and Corruption on Firm Growth: An Empirical Investigation for Vietnam

2016 ◽  
pp. 5-29
Author(s):  
Bich Le Thi Ngoc
Keyword(s):  
International Development ◽  
Firm Growth ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Manufacturing Firms ◽  
Economic Management ◽  
Tax Rate ◽  
Percentage Point Increase ◽  
Percentage Points ◽  
Point Increase ◽  
The Impact

The aim of this study is to analyze empirically the impact of taxation and corruption on the growth of manufacturing firms in Vietnam. The study employed pooled OLS estimation and then instrument variables with fixed effect for the panel data of 1377 firms in Vietnam from 2005 to 2011. These data were obtained from the survey of the Central Institute for Economic Management and the Danish International Development Agency. The results show that both taxation and corruption are negatively associated with firm growth measured by firm sales adjusted according to the GDP deflator. A one-percentage point increase in the bribery rate is linked with a reduction of 16,883 percentage points in firm revenue, over four and a half times bigger than the effect of a one-percentage point increase in the tax rate. From the findings of this research, the author recommends the Vietnam government to lessen taxation on firms and that there should be an urgent revolution in anti-corruption policies as well as bureaucratic improvement in Vietnam.

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