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Influencing the global through understanding the local: Harold Brookfield's contribution to international organisations' biodiversity policy.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Asia Pacific Viewpoint. Aug2005, Vol. 46 Issue 2, p143-151. 9p.
Abstract: This article focuses on a significant paradigm shift in the approaches to biodiversity conservation in the developing countries that has affected important international organisations, including the Global Environment Facility (GEF). This paradigm shif...
'Peak' Employers' Organizations: International Attempts at Transferring Experience.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Economic & Industrial Democracy. Aug2006, Vol. 27 Issue 3, p463-484. 22p.
Abstract: Employers' organizations' central role in social dialogue at national and supra-national levels is advocated and supported by supranational institutions. Yet some of the organizations, particularly outside Western Europe, face considerable membership a...
Risky migrations: Race, Latin eugenics, and Cold War development in the International Labor Organization's Puno–Tambopata project in Peru, 1930–60.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): History of Science. Mar2022, Vol. 60 Issue 1, p41-68. 28p.
Abstract: Histories of economic development during the Cold War do not typically consider connections to race science and eugenics. By contrast, this article historicizes the debates sparked by the International Labor Organization's Puno–Tambopata project in Per...
Constitutional Theories of International Organisations: Beyond the West.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Chinese Journal of International Law. Dec2021, Vol. 20 Issue 4, p649-698. 50p.
Abstract: The Joint Statement by the Foreign Ministers of China and Russia on Certain Aspects of Global Governance in Modern Conditions of 23 March 2021 calls for "the establishment of a fairer, more democratic and rational multipolar world order." The paper inq...
Notes on development research by international organizations.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): International Social Science Journal; Aug1974, Vol. 26 Issue 3, p519-524, 6p
Abstract: This article presents issues of development which constitute the main challenge in present scenario to international research for social development. Apart from questions of war and peace on which, for whatever reason, relatively little research by int...
International Volunteerism and Capacity Development in Nonprofit Organizations of the Global South.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Nonprofit & Voluntary Sector Quarterly. Apr2020, Vol. 49 Issue 2, p252-271. 20p.
Abstract: Although international volunteerism has been a part of official development assistance for decades, the capacity development (CD) impacts of such programs in nonprofit organizations (NPOs) in the Global South have received scant attention. This article...
Knowledge Creation in International Non-Profit Organisations.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Journal of Information & Knowledge Management; Apr2023, Vol. 22 Issue 2, p1-29, 29p
Abstract: Copyright of Journal of Information & Knowledge Management is the property of World Scientific Publishing Company and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written perm...
DISCURSO GERENCIALISTA NAS ORGANIZAÇÕES NÃO GOVERNAMENTAIS (ONGS) E IDEÁRIO NEOLIBERAL PÓS 1990: ANÁLISE A PARTIR DA COOPERAÇÃO INTERNACIONAL NÃO GOVERNAMENTAL PARA O DESENVOLVIMENTO.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Gestao & Planejamento. jan-dez2020, Vol. 21, p279-297. 19p.
Abstract: O gerencialismo se difundiu, na década de 1990, como modelo de reestruturação das organizações de interesse público estatais e não estatais. As ONGs, compreendidas como agentes privados com fins públicos, surgidas, originalmente, sob os princípios de s...
Health international non-governmental organizations, democracy, and tuberculosis mortality in developing nations: A longitudinal analysis.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Sociological Spectrum. 2016, Vol. 36 Issue 5, p303-320. 18p. 2 Charts, 1 Graph.
Abstract: Using data from 1985 to 2005 for 74 developing nations, we conduct a longitudinal cross-national analysis examining the contentions of world polity theorists that health-related international non-governmental organizations (HINGOs) are effective at red...
Organization Spotlight: International Children's Literacy Corps.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Childhood Education. May/Jun2015, Vol. 91 Issue 3, p208-211. 4p.
Abstract: A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience founding the International Children's Literacy Corps (ICLC) with a vision to promote literacy in the developing world.