A STUDY OF POSITIVE EFFECTS OF YOGA

In this study, the objective was to test the influence of Yoga on diabetes patients by comparing the pre and post-test scores of subjective well-being. The study nature is pre and post experimental design. We used two groups including control group and the experimental group or group on which intervention is administered. The intervention in this case is the Yoga exercise. The sampling is based on convenience non-random sampling consisted of 30 patients who were diabetic patients. For experiment purpose, we divided the group into two equal parts including control group and the experiment group. The data is collected from survey method and target of the survey was diabetic type II patients. The duration of the study was 6 months. The results show that for experimental group, subjective wellbeing in the pre-test score was 153.73 which increased to 172.84 in post-test. In control group, the mean score of subjective-wellbeing in pre-test was 154.71 while in post-test, the score was 155.56. This result shows that in control group, the subjective wellbeing did not change much compare to the experiment group. The results support the notion that Yoga if administered can help diabetic patients in reducing the overall wellbeing including physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual dimensions

Forging 'Soft' Accountability in Unlikely Settings: A Conceptual Analysis of Mutual Accountability in the Context of South-South Cooperation

This study sets out to introduce the concept of soft accountability as a new approach to understanding mutual accountability in unlikely settings of development cooperation through South-South cooperation. In doing so, this study analyzes three defining components of accountability (responsibility, answerability, and enforceability) and identifies the actors and modalities of mutual accountability in four different situations of South-South cooperation mechanisms. The main finding in this conceptual analysis contains establishing an institutional and sustainable development platform for the mutual accountability of South-South cooperation by not only reflecting the distinctive nature of South-South cooperation, but also focusing on responsibility first to reduce buck-passing among actors and to sustain its continuous management

Contradictions of Global Accountability: The World Bank, Development NGOs, and Global Social Governance

This study sets out to investigate the structural contradictions of accountability deficits in global social governance, with the particular reference to the World Bank Inspection Panel and its associated development NGOs. In theorizing global social policy as a new field of social policy agendas, less attention has been hitherto paid to the notion of accountability, which should have been placed at the centre of discourses on global social governance. Given the absence of central global government which can enforce the accountability mechanism, the World Banks attempt to embrace external actors – particularly, international NGOs – as key stakeholders contributes to filling the accountability gaps, thereby enhancing the legitimacy of the Banks intervention in globalised social problems. This study aims to locate not only the intersection of the accountability problem and global social policy, but also some structural dilemmas embedded in the accountability of policy transfers from global institutions to national social policy. By taking the two investigation cases of the World Bank Inspection Panel (China and Argentina), it identifies two modes of contradictions of global accountability: (i) the abused which results from the overemphasis on accountability, thereby sidelining the Banks effective functions; and (ii) the phased denial which is the negative outcome of the Banks deliberate controlling system designed to reduce the number of accountability requests

Social Rights as a Global Public Good: Development, Human Rights, and Accountability

This study is undertaken to tackle the two critical frontlines of global governance for development aid: (i) translating human rights in the developmental context with the particular emphasis on social rights as a global public good; and (ii) introducing the accountability mechanism as a practical alternative to the organizational failure of legalist approaches. In dealing with the social construction of global governance, the study demonstrates mainly theoretical observations and normative foundations for advancing social rights as an alternative to blind faiths on the hard-core legalism, rather than empirical in-depth analyses. International society is characterized by the absence of world government and no centralized authorities to give sanctions against rule-breakers and also power relations among states. Power, however, is always legitimate only so long as it serves its original purposes, which, in the case of human rights, are the protection of rights and the pursuit of the public good. The manifest lesson from this study is that the new conceptualization of human rights by taking social rights as its soft substitute and the launching of accountability functions into international institutions are both socially constructed by the extended interactions of all parties involved in global governance. Accountability is at the center of institutional processes through which human rights is conceptually specified as a concrete form of social rights, and the implementation methods are reformulated from ideational legal measures to a realistic mechanism to hold agencies more accountable for their activities

Localizing international transfer of aid and technology for the promotion of development

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