Women, Development, and Survival in the Third World. Haleh AfsharHousehold and Class Relations: Peasants and Landlords in Northern Peru. Carmen Diana DeereBringing Women in: Women's Issues in International Development Programs. Nüket Kardam

Signs ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 722-726
Keyword(s):  
International Development ◽  
Third World ◽  
Class Relations ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Women's Issues ◽  
The Third ◽  
Northern Peru ◽  
The Third World

Bearing Burdens

2018 ◽  
pp. 123-151
Author(s):  
William O. Walker
Keyword(s):  
International Development ◽  
Multinational Corporations ◽  
Third World ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Civic Action ◽  
The Third ◽  
American Century ◽  
Alliance For Progress ◽  
Agency For International Development ◽  
The Third World

This chapter assesses the various obstacles impeding the expansion of the American Century from early 1961 through 1964. Numerous problems, including Laos, Berlin, the Cuban missile crisis, and Vietnam brought into question John F. Kennedy’s leadership. His response too often minimized consultation with allies and, across the Third World, increasingly focused on security and stability through civic action programs, overseen by the Office of Public Safety in the Agency for International Development—to the great detriment, for example, of experiments like the Alliance for Progress. Meanwhile, the rise of multinational corporations and deficit-induced flight of gold thwarted Kennedy’s and Lyndon Johnson’s economic policies, while weakening America’s hegemony and credibility.

Participatory Development in Maragoli, Kenya: Reflections on Practicing Anthropology

2014 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 11-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
David McConnell ◽  
Jan den Bakker ◽  
Samuel Kidini ◽  
Joyce Bunyoli
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Third World ◽  
Participatory Development ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Community Members ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Third World ◽  
Paternalistic Attitude

Over the past two decades, participatory development programs that emphasize local control and decision-making have become more common around the globe. Such initiatives respond to the thought-provoking critiques of the discourse and practice of "development" that have emerged since the 1990s. Critics have argued, for example, that the development industry promotes a paternalistic attitude that sees Western standards as the benchmark against which to measure the "Third World" (Escobar 1995), privileges donor priorities over local needs, and uses aid to grow government and NGO bureaucracies rather than directly assisting community members (Ferguson 2006). It sees recipients of aid as an undifferentiated mass of underdeveloped subsistence farmers (Lewellen 2002). Participatory development programs are one response to the need for a new paradigm in community development that empowers locals while avoiding the pitfalls of "philanthropic colonialism."

Cooperation for International Development: The United States and the Third World in the 1990s

1990 ◽  
Vol 69 (4) ◽  
pp. 182
Author(s):  
William Diebold ◽  
Robert J. Berg ◽  
David F. Gordon
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
International Development ◽  
Third World ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Third World

Hydrocarbon Humanitarianism: Ibrahim Shihata, ‘Oil Aid’, and Resource Sovereignty

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Umut Özsu
Keyword(s):  
International Economic ◽  
International Development ◽  
Financial Aid ◽  
Third World ◽  
International Economic Order ◽  
State System ◽  
State Distribution ◽  
The Third ◽  
Special Fund ◽  
The Third World

Abstract This article revisits Ibrahim Shihata’s role in developing the financial aid policies of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) after the formal inauguration of the New International Economic Order project (NIEO) in 1974. As director of the OPEC Special Fund, subsequently the OPEC Fund for International Development, after its establishment in 1976, Shihata spearheaded the development of the organization’s aid policies. He also defended the NIEO as a set of sensible reform measures for redistributing wealth, resources, and technology. This article contends that Shihata’s vigorous defence of OPEC’s aid record aimed to demonstrate that the NIEO – an enterprise OPEC supported – involved not simply structural reform of the inter-state system but direct engagement with questions of intra-state distribution, and that OPEC aid was designed partly to keep the ‘Third World bloc’ from disintegrating due to the growing distance between oil-producing and non-oil-producing countries.

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