Orientalism and African development studies: The 'reductive repetition' motif in theories of African underdevelopment
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The practice of 'reductive repetition', as identified by Abdullah Laroui and Edward Said, is imported into African development studies from Orientalist scholarship. Reductive repetition reduces the diversity of African historical experiences and trajectories, sociocultural contexts and political situations into a set of core deficiencies for which externally generated solutions must be devised.
Publication Name: Third World Quarterly
Subject: International relations
ISSN: 0143-6597
Year: 2005
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Beyond CSR? Business, poverty and social justice: An introduction
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The article introduces requirement of accountability of businesses in context of social responsibility towards alleviation of poverty by providing minimum social and environmental standard. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) though has been adopted for international development the article explores how it can be defined and implemented by corporate houses.
Publication Name: Third World Quarterly
Subject: International relations
ISSN: 0143-6597
Year: 2007
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Global governance campaigning and MDGs: From top-down to bottom-up anti-poverty work
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Social movements, labor, environmentalists and allied NGOs must debate the top-down strategy, as the role of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in the movements for global justice is disputative. Working bottom-up, with the existing anti-poverty, global justice movements would constitute a much wiser use of resources, energy and political commitment.
Publication Name: Third World Quarterly
Subject: International relations
ISSN: 0143-6597
Year: 2006
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