Browsing College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies by Subject "Development"
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Aidland in South Asia: humanitarian crisis and the contours of the global aid industry in the long 1970s
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2022-06-07)This article uses the experiences of expatriate aid workers in South Asia to examine the contours of the global aid industry in the long 1970s. It begins by outlining the impact of the crisis on the aid sector, before using ... -
Beyond economics: redefining development
(De Gruyter Open, 1992)Since the short-lived interlude of impressive growth and prosperity in the 1970s, the dual scourges of involuntary emigration and high unemployment have returned to plague Irish society. Having increasingly become part ... -
Biafra's legacy: NGO humanitarianism and the Nigerian civil war
(Overseas Development Institute, 2016-10)[No abstract available] -
An evaluation of the practicability of the right to development
(School of Political Science and Sociology, University of Galway, 2022)Human rights broadly speaking refer to norms, and codes that seek to protect humans from political, legal, and social abuses (Stanford, 2003). In more recent times, concerns for issues involving global and social justice ... -
Growth, public policy and regional models in Ireland and Malaysia
(2007-11)What exactly constitutes 'good governance' in a highly globalized economy? Developmental state theory suggests that high-growth "tiger" economies have "developmental" features and capabilities that other states lack, ... -
Humanitarianisms in context
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2016-03-16)This introduction describes the rapidly expanding history of non-state humanitarianism in terms of three themes. First, it argues that we should think about humanitarianism less in terms of ruptures or breaks, and focus ... -
The moral dimension of third world development
(Irish Province of the Society of Jesus, 1997)The 1987 Encyclical of Pope John Paul II, Solicitudo Rei Socialis is a most remarkable statement on the problem of development, particularly in relation to the Third World. While following the tradition of the social ... -
The search for justice: NGOs in Britain and Ireland and the New International Economic Order, 1968-82
(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015)The rapid expansion of the international humanitarian NGO community in the long 1970s brought with it much soul-searching on how NGOs could move beyond charity and towards genuine solidarity with the Third World. Drawing ... -
Voice and meaning: the wisdom of family support veterans
(Wiley, 2014-12-10)Although a widely accepted term in child welfare discourses, thereremains a vagueness as to what Family Support as a named orientationin children and family services actually entails.This lack of clarityis, at times, used ...