26 research outputs found
Neoliberalism and the revival of agricultural cooperatives: The case of the coffee sector in Uganda
Agricultural cooperatives have seen a comeback in sub‐Saharan Africa. After the collapse of many weakly performing monopolist organizations during the 1980s and 1990s, strengthened cooperatives have emerged since the 2000s. Scholarly knowledge about the state–cooperative relations in which this “revival” takes place remains poor. Based on new evidence from Uganda's coffee sector, this paper discusses the political economy of Africa's cooperative revival. The authors argue that donors' and African governments' renewed support is framed in largely apolitical terms, which obscures the contested political and economic nature of the revival. In the context of neoliberal restructuring processes, state and non‐state institutional support to democratic economic organizations with substantial redistributional agendas remains insufficient. The political–economic context in Uganda—and potentially elsewhere in Africa—contributes to poor terms of trade for agricultural cooperatives while maintaining significant state control over some cooperative activities to protect the status quo interests of big capital and state elites. These conditions are unlikely to produce a conflict‐free, substantial, and sustained revival of cooperatives, which the new promoters of cooperatives suggest is under way
Exemptions to state laws regulating opioid prescribing for patients with cancer‐related pain: A summary
'Managing' Cape Town's street children/youth:the impact of the 2010 World Cup bid on street life in the city of Cape Town
Aid policy in transition: A preliminary analysis of post'-conflict rehabilitation of the health sector
Distinctive policy diffusion patterns, processes and actors: drawing implications from the case of sport in international development
Opportunities and challenges facing NGOs using sport as a vehicle for development in post-apartheid South Africa
Development of a novel, robust, sustainable and low cost self-powered water pump for use in free-flowing liquid streams
Olympic rings of peace? The Olympic movement, peacemaking and intercultural understanding
This article examines the historical and contemporary links between Olympism and peacemaking. It traces the development of thought and praxis in relation to the Olympic movement's aim and capacity to promote peaceful coexistence and intercultural understanding from the ancient Olympic Truce to the revival of the modern Olympic Games by Baron Pierre de Coubertin, to the current relationship between the Olympic movement and the United Nations peace agenda. The article highlights the perceived discrepancy between rhetoric and reality, and between theory and practice, as well as the persistent criticisms that have been levelled at the Olympic movement with regard to its peacemaking achievements. In so doing, it draws together the key issues and debates addressed in this collection of papers