https://thesis.eur.nl/col/4326/ List of Publications en https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/8823/ Mon, 01 Dec 2003 00:00:01 GMT <div>Feitosa de Britto, Tatiana</div> https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/14661/ Tue, 30 Dec 2003 00:00:01 GMT <div>Nabukeera, Judith</div> https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/9344/ Wed, 01 Dec 2004 00:00:01 GMT <div>Phiri, Martin Kachigamba</div> Thirteen years after Zambia reintroduced multi"'party politics (became the third Republic), the Constitution of Zambia still do have some problems which need addressing particularly with regard to policy making role of the Parliament (Wiseman, 1995:208). This is depicted by continued amendments which characterise the third republic. The Constitution of Zambia No. 17 of 1996 section 3 states that, "except as provided under this act, the Constitution of Zambia Act, 1991, and the Constitution schedule. thereto, are amended in sofar as they form part of the laws ofZambia"(National Assembly of Zambia, 1996: 9). https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/13708/ Fri, 31 Dec 2004 00:00:01 GMT <div>Mbilinyi, Teophory Anthony</div> https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/9228/ Thu, 01 Dec 2005 00:00:01 GMT <div>Swain, B. Bidyut</div> Crisis often proves to be a turning point in human life. The same is true of an organization, or for that matter a city or a country. Does crisis lead to change? Are these changes for the better? To put it in one single question; does crisis always lead to reforms? In those cases where a post-crisis reform is visible, to what extent is leadership responsible? This paper looks at two case studies of cities recovering from crises; Surat after the Plague epidemic in 1994 and Ahmedabad after the earthquake in 2001. At least in the visible spheres and in public view, Surat changed for the better after 1994. Ahmedabad shows no such change-story after 2001. Why is it so? The nature of crisis response shown by the leadership! I have tried to look at the City Governance in the post-crisis phase from the viewpoint of administrative leadership to probe these questions. Politics forms the essence of city governance and beyond all types of leadership is the social leadership provided by the citizens. This paper looks at the complex inter-leadership relationships and leadership styles behind the city governance in a post-crisis phase and searches for answers. https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/8291/ Thu, 01 Dec 2005 00:00:01 GMT <div>PALLAVI</div> https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/9669/ Thu, 01 Dec 2005 00:00:01 GMT <div>Kimilu, Cornelius Ndolo</div> Literature on policy learning and lesson-drawing is growing. This body ofliterature emphasizes that policies used in one country can be used to solve a similar problem elsewhere. However, caution is given that cross-national policy learning does not mean transplanting policies from one country to another. This paper looks at the policies dealing with drug and substance abuse in Kenya and compares with Dutch drug policy to see what lessons can be learned. The study establishes that drug policies in Kenya focus on supply reduction while Dutch drug policy focuses on harm reduction. The paper suggests that a main lesson from the principles of the Dutch drug policy is for policyrnakers in Kenya to handle drug abuse as a public health problem rather than as a criminal one. However, the paper does not suggest that all the principles ofthe Dutch drug policy are applicable in Kenya given that both countries are diverse in many aspects. https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/76252/ Thu, 15 Dec 2005 00:00:01 GMT <div>Mohammad Kamrul Islam Chowdhury</div> https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/70510/ Thu, 15 Dec 2005 00:00:01 GMT <div>Alessandra Dibos Galvez</div> https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/57068/ Fri, 16 Dec 2005 00:00:01 GMT <div>Inooka, Aika</div> https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/33522/ Fri, 16 Dec 2005 00:00:01 GMT <div>Yoshida, Tamakai</div> https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/37676/ Fri, 16 Dec 2005 00:00:01 GMT <div>Eguren Ciurlizza, Horacio</div> https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/11310/ Fri, 01 Dec 2006 00:00:01 GMT <div>Duong Kim Anh</div> This paper addresses the gender-based institutional arrangements in Vietnam's Textile and Garment enterprises and its impact on the well-being of female workers in the competitive context of globalization. I demonstrate how these arrangements are conditioned by forms of ownership - State and Private - which in turn have bearings on the specific objectives and goals set by firms. The notions of workers' well-being are perceived differently in SOEs and DPEs as the firms adopt different kinds of Corporate Strategy. Although firms of both types of ownerships express their concerns about the well-being of female workers, market pressures under severe competition force them to take different decisions that can adversely affect these concerns. A big gap between the well-being of female workers in SOEs and DPEs is found including the differences in income level and social security. Firms of both of types of ownership have yet to pay attention to the gender-based vulnerability faced by female workers such as: those living under co-habitation arrangement being subject to stigmatisation and gossip, the noxious working atmosphere, low-wages and work intensity. SOEs offer higher compensation with better security, but chances to work in this ownership are few as the number of SOEs is decreasingly rapidly due to obligatory Equitization Route scheduled to be completed in 2010. The paper concludes, in order to enhance the well being of female workers in TGI, conflicting interests of stake-holders must be resolved, requiring the involvement of different actors including state authority, social organs, enterprises and female workers themselves. https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/9207/ Fri, 01 Dec 2006 00:00:01 GMT <div>Devaraj, M.</div> Since independence in 1947 India has achieved significant progress in the field of health. Life expectancy has more than doubled from 32 years in 1947 to 66 years in 2004 while in the corresponding period infant mortality has fallen by over 60%. Smallpox and guineaworm have been eradicated while polio and leprosy are on the verge of being eradicated. On the other hand, infant and maternal mortality rates have stagnated since the 1990s. India has one-fifth of world diseases including a third of diarrhoeal diseases and Tuberculosis and a fifth of diabetes. https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/9747/ Fri, 01 Dec 2006 00:00:01 GMT <div>Anh, Duong Kim</div> This paper addresses the gender-based institutional arrangements in Vietnam's Textile and Garment enterprises and its impact on the well-being of female workers in the competitive context of globalization. I demonstrate how these arrangements are conditioned by forms of ownership - State and Private - which in tum have bearings on the specific objectives and goals set by firms. https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/9424/ Fri, 01 Dec 2006 00:00:01 GMT <div>Meleg Cabrera, Catalina</div> This study presents a decision-making policy case in Colombia, related to the concession of the ecotourism services in the National Natural Parks in 2004. The study poses the question of why the government ~ook the decision to give in concession the ecotourism services in the parks. The policy-process resulted to be a solution driven-type of policy reform. In the document is explained and analyzed the factors behind that influenced the decision-making. The study highlights how solution-driven policy decisions are highly influenced by the international context and lesson drawing practices, are more likely to happen in a top-down perspective of policy making and are also influenced and shaped by the characteristics of a national context and the political pressures and interests of some society groups. In this sense the policy does not followed a normative and linear approach for policy making but an interactive, showing the reality of policy-making process in which politics plays an important role. Key words: Policy-analysis, decision-making, solution-centric approaches, realism in policy making, planning, politics, ecotourism, environmental polices natural parks, lesson drawing practices and state reforms. https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/62325/ Fri, 15 Dec 2006 00:00:01 GMT <div>Davidar, P.W.C.</div> https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/9428/ Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:00:01 GMT <div>Lee, Sohae</div> This paper is about organizations managing change. "Management of change is a complex, dynamic and challenging process rather than a set of recipes." (Paton & McCalman, 2000: 2) Although changing any organization is difficult, whether it be a multinational private company or a community level volunteer organization, it is especially challenging for international public organizations such as the UN, "an extraordinarily broad organization, with a mandate that spans the entire gamut of human experience:" (Heinbeq~er & Goff, 2005: 6) Moreover, change in an international organization with "high visibility, symbolic aura and broad agenda" (Luck, 2003: 1) is'subject to scrutiny at both substantive and political level. (Ibid: 5) More than any other types of organization, international development aid agencies draw attention from a wide spectrum of people around the world. Changes in such big international organizations affect not only their managers and staff but also their cooperating organizations, politicians and taxpayers of funding countries and the politicians and the public in countries receiving funds and programmes. Because of the interests at stake, there are strong forces encouraging the organizations to "enhance its efficiency and/or effectiveness in advancing its core goals and principles." (Ibid: 4) At the same time, those who are enjoying the status quo within and around the organization resist change. https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/8814/ Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:00:01 GMT <div>Pereira, Amilcar Frederico</div> https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/9243/ Sat, 01 Dec 2007 00:00:01 GMT <div>Singh, Bishwajit Kumar</div> For social ecologists and activist, the statutory recognition . of forest dweller's individual/communal ownership over forest land and resources in India is an historical moment in reversal of marginalization of Forest Dwellers (FDS), opening up new horizons for them. The enactment of "The Scheduled Tribes and other traditional Forest Dweller (Recognition of Forest Rights) Bill" in Dec, 2006 herein referred to as the "Tribal Bill" has been considered as a· remedy to undo historical injustice meted out to the forest dwellers regarding title, access, management and use of forest land and forest resources taken away during consolidation of the state forests during medieval period, colonial period as well as in independent India. That is why, this policy is supposed to provide. an institutional framework for recording and subsequent recognition of forests rights (Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Government of India 2005).