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The author focuses on how development-oriented non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and microfinance institutions (MFIs) are suited to the dual development process of improving the wellbeing and empowerment of the poor and other marginalized peoples (especially women) in Africa and other developing countries, focusing on Uganda. NGOs and MFIs are seen as a third approach (i.e. an alternative to state or market strategies) to achieving sustainable development and poverty reduction. The author discusses the following central issues: rethinking development strategies in Africa as a result of the

THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT (ADA) NEEDS TO BE EVALUATED IN THE CONTEXT OF PUBLIC PROGRAMS THAT EXPRESS DISABILITY POLICY. THE OLDER PROGRAMS, WHICH INDEMNIFY THE INCOME LOSSES AND HEALTH CAR COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH DISABILITY, ARE DESIGNED FOR PERSONS WHO CANNOT WORK, AS OPPOSED TO THE ADA'S OBJECTIVE OF INCREASING EMPLOYMENT. THE TENSIONS BETWEEN THE TWO APPROACHES, THE DIFFERENCES IN THE PERSONS WHOM THEY SERVE, THE CONFLICTS BETWEEN EQUITY AND EFFICIENCY GOALS, AND SOME SUGGESTIONS FOR FUTURE POLICIES ARE THE SUBJECTS OF THIS ARTICLE.

Contained within the pages of this book are the stories behind some of the most notorious murders in Sussex's history. Based upon contemporary documents and illustrations, Johnnie Johnson re-examines some of the crimes that shocked not only the county but Britain as a whole. Among the gruesome cases featured here are the mystery man who shot his wife and three children in a house in Eastbourne; the Chief Constable who was bludgeoned to death in his own police station; the fearsome gang of smugglers who tortured and buried one of their two victims alive and threw the second to his death down a

Abstract: This essay explores pedagogies of abolition in the wake of World War I through the intellectual biography of Rae Spiegel, the child revolutionary who became economist, feminist, and Marxist-Humanist philosopher Raya Dunayevskaya. Anchoring her work in the tradition of nineteenth-century abolitionists, Dunayevskaya co-constructed schools of insurgency and outlets for the creative expression of subjugated peoples, including youth, for over sixty years. Offering critical and contextual readings of Dunayevskaya's archives of girlhood, this study locates the roots of her abolitionist pedagogies in Black study, cross-racial and cross-generational collaborations, and "Baby Red" revolts against schooling across two empires. It argues that Dunayevskaya deployed story, personal history, and the archive as pedagogical invitations to self-teaching and radical forms of collectivity.

Argues that as housing policy shifted from `distributive' to `redistributive' due to a curtailment of funding, the housing coalition came under pressure from external forces and ultimately fragmented into competing (rather than cohesive) interests. As a result, the commitment to housing provision was drastically reduced. (Original abstract-amended)

In both the United States of America and Great Britain, there have been widespread but inconsistent attempts over the past two decades to involve ordinary citizens in local land-use planning decisions. These illustrate the tension between the representative and participatory principles in local politics generally. Efforts to analyze them must distinguish between six different types of planning decisions and five categories of participation within these decision types. A survey of the literature from both nations indicates that participatory programs have a mixed record of accomplishments, according to the local political culture and structures, the attitudes of public officials and political leaders, and the aims and skills of the participants. At its best, citizen participation has provided certain benefits to local planning systems, but it has displayed such limitations that it must continue to take place within a framework of responsive and accountable representation.