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Education at What Price? A Study of Low Cost Private Education in Malawi
(2015)
Abstract
With the shift to free primary education resulting in greater numbers of primary school graduates, Malawi has seen an increased demand for secondary education. Limited public resources, have forced Malawians to ...
LARGE-SCALE LAND ACQUISITIONS IN TANZANIA: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THEIR IMPLICATIONS ON WATER SECURITY
(2015)
The surge in large-scale land acquisitions – or ‘land grabs’ – following the financial crisis has provoked a polarised debate centred on the role of foreign investment in African agriculture. A critical and often overlooked, ...
GEOs and Gender: GEOs and What They Mean for Women Farmers in Kenya
(2015)
Kenya is on the brink of becoming the fourth African nation to commercialize genetically engineered organisms (GEOs). The Water Efficient Maize for Africa (WEMA) program is expected to publicly release a variety of drought ...
The 'New' Development Regime in Ecuador: Implications for the Highland Indigenous Movement
(2015)
Beginning in 2007, Rafael Correa’s presidency has marked a new era in Ecuadorian politics. Correa has been a vocal opponent of the Washington Consensus and has vastly expanded social spending and development programming. ...
“Bodies of Evidence: Sex and Murder (or Gender and Homicide) in Early Modern England."
(Wiley Blackwell, 2015)