scholarly journals India’s Engagement in Development and Peacebuilding Assistance in the Post-Conflict States: An Assessment

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yeshi Choedon
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Development Assistance ◽  
Economic Factor ◽  
Industrial Sector ◽  
The Other ◽  
Development Assistance Committee ◽  
Central Focus ◽  
Economic Context ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Globalized World

The emotional and ideological factor to express solidarity with the other developing countries is the main driving factor for India to engage in development assistance. In the changed geopolitical and geo-economic context in the globalized world, the economic factor of access to the market for Indian products and natural resources for its growing industrial sector became the additional motivation. As India does not subscribe to peacebuilding, it has no separate category of peacebuilding assistance. This study’s central focus is on why India’s way of providing development and peacebuilding assistance captured the world’s attention in the 21st century and how India’s ways are different from that of the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC) countries. It highlights India’s unique guiding principles, approaches, and modalities for development and peacebuilding assistance. It focuses on why the developing countries appreciated India’s development and peacebuilding assistance, although it is not much in terms of volume compared to the Development Assistance Committee countries. It emphasizes the advantages of accepting diversity instead of an attempt for uniformity in peacebuilding assistance.

scholarly journals Grass Is Greener on the Other Side: Return Migration of Indian Engineers and Scientists in Academia

2017 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meghna Sabharwal ◽  
Roli Varma
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Return Migration ◽  
National Science Foundation ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
The United States ◽  
Industrial Sector ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Ability To Work ◽  
Birth Data ◽  
Globalized World

Studies on skilled return migration from developed to developing countries have focused on the industrial sector. This article focuses on why academic engineers and scientists from developing countries leave developed countries to return to their countries of birth. Data for this study comes from a National Science Foundation funded study with 83 engineers and scientists who returned to India after study and work in U.S. universities. Better career prospects in India namely ample funding available for research, less competition for grants, ability to work on theoretical topics, and freedom in research objectives emerged as the key factors that prompted return. These findings, therefore, differ with return migration of industrial engineers and scientists who moved back primarily to start companies in India and immigration challenges in the United States. With very little scholarly work on return migration of academic engineers and scientists, this study expands the understanding of high skilled migration in a globalized world.

scholarly journals Ascensão e Queda do Brasil como Doador de Assistência Humanitária Internacional

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 573-606 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Vilarinho Tambourgi
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Development Assistance ◽  
Humanitarian Assistance ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Development Assistance Committee ◽  
International Donors ◽  
State Actors

O Brasil completou, em 2015, uma década de atuação como doador de assistência humanitária internacional. A inserção brasileira acontece em momento em que outros países em desenvolvimento também começam a atuar do lado da oferta de assistência humanitária. Tradicionalmente, os países membros do Comitê de Assistência ao Desenvolvimento, da Organização para a Cooperação e Desenvolvimento Econômico (DAC/OECD) são considerados os principais doadores internacionais. A emergência de novos atores estatais, os doadores “Não DAC”, agrega mais recursos ao total de oferta de assistência humanitária. Neste artigo, o Brasil aparece como um doador Não DAC, sendo apresentada a inserção internacional brasileira como do país doador do ponto de vista financeiro das ações em relação à sua política externa. Palavras-chave: governo Lula; assistência humanitária internacional; política externa brasileira; CGFOME; governo Dilma.     Abstract: Brazil completed a decade of acting as a donor of international humanitarian assistance in 2015. The Brazilian insertion happens at a time when other developing countries also begin to act on the side of offering humanitarian assistance. Traditionally, the member countries of the Development Assistance Committee of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (DAC/OECD) are considered the main international donors. The emergence of new state actors, to so called “non-DAC” donors, adds more resources to the total supply of humanitarian assistance. In this article, Brazil is considered a non-DAC donor, being presented the international insertion of the country as a donor from the financial point of view of the actions in relation to its foreign policy. Key-words: Lula’s government; international humanitarian assistance; Brazilian foreign policy; CGFOME; Rousseff’s government.  

CREATING WALKING LED TRANSIT STATIONS FOR WOMEN IN MALAYSIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 99
Author(s):  
Yong Adilah Shamsul Harumain ◽  
Nur Farhana Azmi ◽  
Suhaini Yusoff
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
Carbon Emission ◽  
The Other ◽  
Walking Distance ◽  
The Road ◽  
On The Road ◽  
Female User

Transit stations are generally well known as nodes of spaces where percentage of people walking are relatively high. The issue is do more planning is actually given to create walkability. Creating walking led transit stations involves planning of walking distance, providing facilities like pathways, toilets, seating and lighting. On the other hand, creating walking led transit station for women uncover a new epitome. Walking becomes one of the most important forms of mobility for women in developing countries nowadays. Encouraging women to use public transportation is not just about another effort to promote the use of public transportation but also another great endeavour to reduce numbers of traffic on the road. This also means, creating an effort to control accidents rate, reducing carbon emission, improving health and eventually, developing the quality of life. Hence, in this paper, we sought first to find out the factors that motivate women to walk at transit stations in Malaysia. A questionnaire survey with 562 female user of Light Railway Transit (LRT) was conducted at LRT stations along Kelana Jaya Line. Both built and non-built environment characteristics, particularly distance, safety and facilities were found as factors that are consistently associated with women walkability. With these findings, the paper highlights the criteria  which are needed to create and make betterment of transit stations not just for women but also for walkability in general.

Planning with Semi-input-output Method with Empirical Application to Nigeria. By Arie Kuyvenhoven. Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff Social Sciences Division. 1978. xi + 266 pp.

1980 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 247-249
Author(s):  
A. R. Kemal
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Final Demand ◽  
The Other ◽  
Production Structure ◽  
Input Output ◽  
Output Analysis ◽  
Input Output Analysis ◽  
Comparative Cost ◽  
Planning Models

Input -output analysis is being widely used in developing countries for planning purposes. For a given level of final demand, input-output analysis allows us to project the required level of gross output to ensure consistency of plan. These projections are made on the assumption that the existing production structure is optimal and it implies that an increase in demand will be met through the expansion of domestic output even when it can be satisfied through an increase in imports. On the other hand, according to the semi-input-output method, we do not have to increase the output of international sectors in order to meet the increase in demand because the level and composition of these activities should be determined by comparative- cost considerations. These are the only national sectors in which output must increase in order to avoid shortage. The semi-input -output method has been such a useful and important contribution, yet, regrettably, its influence on the planning models had been rather limited.

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