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Bolivia's New Constitution: Towards Participatory Democracy and Political Pluralism?

Schilling-Vacaflor, Almut - 2010

In Bolivia, rights to increased political participation and the recognition of indigenous political systems are …

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Democratizing Resource Governance through Prior Consultations? Lessons from Bolivia's Hydrocarbon Sector

Schilling-Vacaflor, Almut - 2012

With the recent expansion of extractive industries in Latin America, contestations with the affected communities have increased in number and intensity. Therein, the indigenous right to prior consultation and to free, prior and informed consent has played a crucial role. Based on the empirical...

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Decentralisation in Uganda: Exploring the Constraints for Poverty Reduction

Steiner, Susan - 2006

higher popular participation and increased efficiency in public service delivery. This paper is a qualitative assessment of … the reform, putting improvements in participation and efficiency at risk and ultimately jeopardising the intended impact …Es wird oft behauptet, dass Dezentralisierung durch die ihr inhärenten Möglichkeiten zur Steigerung der Partizipation …

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School Subsidies for the Poor: Evaluating the Mexican Progresa Poverty Program

Schultz, T. Paul - 2001

This paper evaluates how the Progresa Program, which provides poor mothers in rural Mexico with education grants, has …

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Sustainable economy and development of the rural territory: Proposal of wine tourism itineraries in La Axarquía of Malaga (Spain)

Zamarreño-Aramendia, Gorka; Cruz-Ruiz, Elena; … - In: Economies 9 (2021) 1, pp. 1-21

The certification of Malaga and Ronda wine route, within the model of certified wine routes in Spain, has given a new boost to wine tourism in Malaga. The study focuses on La Axarquía, located on the Eastern Costa del Sol in Southern Spain, which has been a reference point in the wine business...

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Rural Areas Facing the Challenge of Economic Diversification: Threats and Opportunities

Castellano-Álvarez, Francisco Javier (contributor); … - 2024

In the 1990s, the European Commission, through the then-novel Leader Initiative, launched rural development programs whose main objective was economic diversification based on the development of new recreational, touristic, or agro-industrial uses that were emerging. The modest size of the...

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Ensuring respect for indigenous cultures: A moral rights approach

Vézina, Brigitte - 2020

From commercials to movies to fashion, Indigenous artworks have been misused in ways that are offensive to the artists who created them and disrespectful of the cultures that inspired them. Using Indigenous traditional cultural expressions (TCEs) without acknowledging their sources or providing...

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Majority-minority constellations: Towards a group-differentiated approach

Koopmans, Ruud; Orgad, Liav - 2020

Multiculturalism has taken a life of its own, swinging too far in one direction. The authors claim that the rapidly changing reality calls for a new majority-minority theory and argue that the moral justifications for cultural minority rights should also apply to majority groups. They present...

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Turning Legal Pluralism into State-Sanctioned Law: Assessing the Implications of the New Constitutions and Laws in Bolivia and Ecuador

Barrera, Anna - 2011

Ethnically diverse societies have long faced the challenge of accommodating distinct and often conflictive normative orders within a single polity. Leaving the ideal of a single, homogeneous legal order aside, many Latin American states have recently acknowledged the right of indigenous peoples...

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Räumliche Doktrinen der Stadtentwicklung: Beständigkeit und Wandel im Laufe der Zeit

Adam, Brigitte; Baudelle, Guy; Dumont, Marc - In: Städte und Metropolen in Frankreich und Deutschland, (pp. 44-62). 2023

Politiken und die Herausforderungen der Zersiedelung. Die wichtigsten Doktrinen wie Integration, Partizipation und … integrated policies and the challenges of urban sprawl. Main doctrines like integration, participation and future orientation …

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