Political Economy

Violence against women in Bangladesh

Caroline Wiegand • Apr 30 2012 • Essays

Bangladesh is one of the poorest countries in the world and its estimated prevalence rate of violence against women is extremely high.

Gaining Entrance to the Network City: Harnessing Economic Globalization in London

Connor Lattimer • Apr 28 2012 • Essays

The failure of sustainable business projects in Hackney projects a particular geography to IPE. IPE would engage with conceptions of unevenness through units of analysis concerned with the authority of cities and networks which impact the individual citizen.

The Role of the State in Development: Re-examining Neo-Liberal Recommendations

Annemarie Detlef • Apr 26 2012 • Essays

Examining the history of development in the UK, the US, Germany and Japan brings the policy recommendations of neoliberalism into question.

Combating Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa

Robin Clempson • Apr 25 2012 • Essays

Sub-Saharan Africa has failed to see solid improvements in poverty indicators. Less money spent on measuring poverty and more spent working to reduce it could be the way to progress.

Were SAPs Designed to Keep Africa Economically Subservient to the West?

Sophie Crockett • Apr 21 2012 • Essays

Structural adjustment programmes upheld the theoretical concepts of neo-liberal economics, tied with the underlying notion that markets are inherently greater in the distribution of resources and in solving development problems.

Security and Human Development in Pakistan

Hamza Jehangir • Apr 18 2012 •

Pakistan’s internal and external power relations and its colonial past have led to skewed policy making which prioritises defence expenditure and neglects human development.

Understanding Poverty: the human development approach

Eilidh Mackie • Apr 17 2012 • Essays

The human development approach, underpinned by interdisciplinary capability frameworks, has become one of the prevailing approaches in understanding, evaluating and measuring poverty within the development sector.

Emerging Economies and Market Oriented Development Policy

Abdelfatah Ibrahim • Apr 5 2012 • Essays

The classification of countries has been dynamic through history due to changing economic situations and fluctuating relations between states.

SAPs and the Build up to the Rwandan Genocide

Thomas Hauschildt • Mar 31 2012 • Essays

It is evident that SAPs worsened the economic situation of Rwanda, and they had significant effects on the wider social and political environment.

Abjection and Resistance on the Zambian Copperbelt

Joe Sutcliffe • Mar 29 2012 • Essays

By concentrating on the struggles of Copperbelt mineworkers, their resistance to neoliberal domination in Zambia be understood and reaffirmed.

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