Pub Date : 2023-12-13DOI: 10.1080/08039410.2023.2289922
François Questiaux
Originally a domestic product used by West African rural population, shea nut has become an international commodity exported all over the world. However, local periodic markets remain a central sit...
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The India–Bangladesh border is the world’s fifth longest land border, a focus of political tension in an area with vibrant informal economies. Cross-border communities share culture and language an...
{"title":"Contested Spaces of Exchange: Informal Cross-Border Trade on the India–Bangladesh Border","authors":"Alison Brown, Bhaskar Chakrabarti, Peter Mackie, Crispian Fuller, Rajesh Bhattacharya, Soumyabrato Bagchi, Debapriya Chakrabarti","doi":"10.1080/08039410.2023.2255211","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08039410.2023.2255211","url":null,"abstract":"The India–Bangladesh border is the world’s fifth longest land border, a focus of political tension in an area with vibrant informal economies. Cross-border communities share culture and language an...","PeriodicalId":45207,"journal":{"name":"FORUM FOR DEVELOPMENT STUDIES","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138529583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-11-01DOI: 10.1080/08039410.2023.2269949
Mitsuaki Furukawa
AbstractIn Tanzania, the gender gap in sports participation remains largely due to socio-cultural and economic influences, partly due to the transition to a market economy and the Ujamaa policy. One of the reasons for lower participation of women compared with men is that many girls give up continuing with sport after primary school. In this situation, the Tanzania Ladies First (LF), a national sports competition exclusively for women, has been held since 2017. In this paper, a questionnaire survey and random interviews were conducted with selected and non-selected athletes for Tanzanian LF, and their parents to examine the role of the LF in the continuation of elite female athletes’ sport by using a mixed method of quantitative and qualitative analysis. This paper found that participation in LF boosts subsequent continuation in sport. On the other hand, in the context of the transition to a market economy, this paper shows that LF may have fixed social and economic structures that allow only a few elite women athletes to continue in sport, rather than expanding women's participation in sport, which runs counter to the spirit of LF. This paper suggests that in the context of a market economy, it will be necessary to promote national awareness of LF to a wider audience and media to make LF more attractive to women and private companies. This paper also recommends the introduction of life skills training through sport for female students to encourage them to continue with sport after leaving school.Keywords: womensportathleticsTanzaniasub-Saharan Africa AcknowledgementsThis paper has been prepared as part of a JICA Ogata Research Institute project entitled ‘Study on Peace and Development through Sport’. The author is grateful to the staff of the JICA Ogata Research Institute and JICA Tanzania. The views and interpretations expressed in this paper and any errors are my own and not necessarily those of JICA.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Tanzania is subdivided into 31 regions (as of 2016).2 The declaration is available at https://www.icsspe.org/sites/default/files/Brighton%20Declaration.pdf.3 Regarding IWGWS, please see http://www.iwg-gti.org4 https://www.findeasy.in/population-of-tanzania/ Access in Feb. 5, 2023Additional informationNotes on contributorsMitsuaki FurukawaMitsuaki Furukawa is a professor of International Relations at the University of Shizuoka, Japan. His research explores peacebuilding, post-war development, sports for development and peace, and SDGs.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-04DOI: 10.1080/08039410.2023.2264857
Virpi Mesiäislehto
Adolescent girls’ access to sexual and reproductive health services is a critical development issue in Tanzania where the intersection of disability and adolescence is compounded by barriers to sexual and reproductive health service access and socially normalised gender-based violence. Using the method of empathy-based stories, I explored the perceptions of 136 Tanzanian adolescent girls with disabilities of how gender-based violence and access to sexual and reproductive health services are intertwined. The findings demonstrate that the intersection of disability and adolescence within sexual and reproductive health services render invisible various forms of violence, which are not only gendered but also ableist. Recognising access to sexual and reproductive health services as a distinct site of violence and addressing the issue in relevant policies and programmes could strengthen the sexual and reproductive health of girls with disabilities. Through an Afrocentric perspective, the findings contribute to the current theoretical constructs used to study disability and development. They call for a reconsideration of relational dynamics in the context of accessible and protected sexual and reproductive health services.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-11DOI: 10.1080/08039410.2023.2255217
Bénédique Paul, Daniil Storchevoi
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Pub Date : 2023-07-19DOI: 10.1080/08039410.2023.2232365
Fitria Magdalena Suprapto, Dian Agustia
Abstract This study aims to examine the six components of hexagon fraud which include: financial pressure, change of leadership, whistleblowing system, auditor opinion, education of head government and procurement system to fraudulent financial statements that occur in local government in Indonesia. In addition, this study also places the APIP (Government Internal Supervisory Apparatus) as a moderating variable. This study uses data from 1,419 financial statements in local government in Indonesia during the 2018–2020 period. The sampling technique is purposive sampling with the judgment sampling method. The research hypothesis was tested using Ordinary Least Squares regression. The results of the study show that only financial pressure and auditor opinion have a significant effect on fraudulent financial statements in local governments in Indonesia. In addition, evidence was found that APIP moderated the relationship between financial pressure and auditor opinion with fraudulent financial statements. This shows that APIP plays a role in mitigating fraudulent financial statements. This research is the first to test the hexagon theory to the financial statements environment in local government in Indonesia which contributes to integrating the role of APIP as a form of preventing financial statement fraud.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1080/08039410.2023.2230213
Yonas Tesema
ABSTRACT This paper examines the demand for industrial labor among dispossessed peasants and how the non-absorption of peasants’ labor into industrial production intertwined in and around the Bole Lemi industrial park (BLIP) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The scores of peasants who were dispossessed to enable the establishment of BLIP were promised to get compensatory jobs. The park's expansion ensures capital accumulation for the companies but produces a ‘pile of pain’ for the dispossessed peasants. Drawing on fieldwork in Addis Ababa, this article illustrates that the promised transformation of dispossessed peasants’ lives from farm to factory and rural to urban lifestyle did not happen. This is due to companies’ ignorance of dispossessed peasants’ labor because they are illiterate, ‘unskilled’ and beyond the productive capitalist age as well as companies’ preference for employing young women. While rural women migrate to the city for industrial labor, on the contrary, the dispossessed peasants living in Addis Ababa are seasonally ‘returning to the farm’ as daily laborers in rural areas known for their labor shortages. The peasants become surplus to industrial production due to capitalists’ 2 preference for employing young women of ‘productive age’ (roughly between 15-30). As a result, a new precarious peasant class of ‘three nos’ – no land, no work, and no hope – is emerging. The aspiration, hope and expectation of modernity – city lifestyle, proletarianization and improvement in livelihoods turned into the reality of under/unemployment and migration.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1080/08039410.2023.2230203
Malin Hasselskog
Abstract While the Rwandan government is acknowledged for assuming national ownership and eloquently commits to local participation, its participation practices are severely criticised and its governance deemed authoritarian. This points to a tension between two long-lasting ideals in international development cooperation and this article argues that – despite their shared aim of increased recipient agency, initiative, and influence – the interrelation between national ownership and local participation needs to be investigated. Rwanda, also known to prudently navigate opportunities and requirements of the aid sector, provides a critical case for such an investigation and the article asks how the Rwandan government’s approach to local participation relates to its exercise of national ownership. Based on previous own and others’ research along with extensive government and donor documentation, the analyses point to interlinkages in the government’s employment of the two ideals, and to the interrelation between national ownership and local participation inevitably depending on the recipient state and its population.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-22DOI: 10.1080/08039410.2023.2209583
J. Miti, M. Perkiö, Anna Metteri, S. Atkins
Abstract This article analyses the strengths and bottlenecks of institutional capacity between social security institutions implementing the reform in Zambia, which focuses to provide social security to small-scale dairy farmers, a group of informal economy workers. Zambia’s informal economy workers absorb over 80 per cent of the labour force. This is a qualitative study of institutional capacity in the extension of social security. Twenty-one interviews were conducted with participants from Farmers’ Cooperatives (MCC), National Pension Scheme Authority (NAPSA), and Dairy Association of Zambia (DAZ). We selected participants through a purposive sampling technique. We reflected on data using a Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR) built on thematic analysis. Analysis suggests that the institutions of the partnership are committed towards extending social security to informal economy workers. There was low involvement of local NAPSA officers in the project design and their role during implementation of the pension extension was unclear. This contributed to a lack of trust by some non-NAPSA members towards social security institutions. Knowledge and beliefs about the capabilities of implementers were essential in the activities for implementing the public policy on the extension of social security. However, there are several implementation lacunas concerning the process, its overarching infrastructure, and adequate human resources. There is a critical need to address gaps in process and procedures, equipment and materials, infrastructure, human resource, trust, and knowledge of context for the extension of social security to informal economy workers in Zambia. This could make the new public policy scheme more attainable.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-12DOI: 10.1080/08039410.2023.2209565
Celina Schmidt-Petersen, Nanna Dalby Sundenæs, M. W. Hansen
ABSTRACT Almost simultaneously, two developing countries – Kenya and Vietnam – set out to promote industrial development through FDI. Vietnam embarked on a targeted strategy aimed at selecting FDI that could specifically aid the country’s strategic export sectors through linkages to local industry. In contrast, Kenya embarked on a cross-the-board FDI attraction policy with no specific sector orientation and with few specific linkage policies. This paper asks how FDI has contributed to local industry development in the two countries. Based on an analysis of firm level data from the World Bank Enterprise Survey, the paper compares the two countries’ ability to generate spillovers from FDI spillovers and discusses what explains differences and similarities. The paper finds that in spite of the obvious differences between the two countries in terms of local industrial development and policy, firm and industry factors appeared to be better predictors of variations in spillovers than country level factors. Among the policy implications drawn are that developing countries should focus their FDI policies on firms and industries that have high linkage and hence spillover potential rather than adopting cross-the-board policies.
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