49 research outputs found
Electrochemical synthesis: Monoclinic Cu 2 Se nano-dendrites with high performance for supercapacitors
No full textAbstract not availableS.K. Shinde, G.S. Ghodake, D.P. Dubal, Rahul V. Patel, R.G. Saratale, D.-Y. Kim, N.C. Maile, R.R. Koli, H.D. Dhaygude, V.J. Fular
Reading of selected works
No full textMaile Chapman, a widely published short story writer and author of the novel Your Presence is Requested at Suvanto, and Vu Tran, winner of a 2009 Whiting Writers\u27 Award and a contributor to the serial novel Restless City, read from their work. Both are Schaeffer Fellows in fiction at UNLV
Three Generations of American Writers
No full textOne of America’s foremost short-fiction writers, George Saunders, joins us for a conversation with his former student, Maile Chapman, and his former teacher, Douglas Unger. George Saunders is a recipient of the MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant, and his most recent collection, The Tenth of December, is a 2013 New York Times best seller. Maile Chapman is the author of Your Presence is Requested at Suvanto, a finalist for the Guardian First Book Award. Doug Unger’s five books include Leaving the Land, a Pulitzer Prize finalist. Both are professors in the UNLV Creative Writing Program
Cooperation or confrontation? Public and private governance and smallholders' incomes in the cocoa sector in Ghana and in Côte d'Ivoire
No full textThe production and consumption of raw materials such as coffee, cocoa and cotton have created extensive but unequal links between the Global North and Global South. The structure and governance of these links have changed over time, but have been determined mainly by a few multinational companies since the 1980s. Within global production networks, these companies trade these commodities or process them into intermediate and final products. At the same time, the unequal distribution of value added within the global commodity chains comes to the disadvantage of millions of small farmers in the Global South, whose income depends heavily on these raw materials. They receive only a small share of the value of the end products and their incomes are affected by volatile global prices. In order to counteract this lack of economic sustainability, as well as social and ecological problems in commodity sectors, a large number of private certification initiatives by independent organisations as well as sustainability programmes initiated by multinational companies themselves have emerged in recent years. However, the functioning and effects of these initiatives are not well understood. In his master thesis, Felix Maile takes up these global interrelations and examines the impact of various sustainability initiatives on incomes for cocoa farmers in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire. Based on interviews with experts from the cocoa sector in Europe, Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire, the author analyses the structure and governance of the global cocoa production network, the price formation in the cocoa sector, and the regulations in the main producing countries in West Africa, which aim to stabilise producer prices and increase productivity. In this context, he shows that there is little cooperation between sustainability initiatives of private companies and public policy measures with regard to producer prices. This can also be explained by the different interests of these actors, as Felix Maile shows with regard to the current debate about a common 'Living Income Differential' in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire. This paper is an important contribution to the discussion on the unequal distribution of value added and power asymmetries in various commodity sectors. In this context, the interrelation between governmental regulations in producer countries and private sustainability initiatives and the role of governance by different actors are particularly relevant, as these are decisive factors for the development of resource-dependent countries in the Global South
Education and poverty reduction strategies: issues of policy coherence
No full textThe author discusses the debate round the question if there is a link between education and poverty reduction?
Education and poverty: development policy options in a democratic era
No full textThe main argument of this chapter is not about lack of consensus in definition and measurement. Most people will claim that their understanding of poverty is the correct one, based on logical argument or scientific research. Poverty is a contested concept. The author argues that poverty is an acceptable state of affairs. Something needs to be done about it. The analysis focuses on theories and policy trajectories directed at improved understanding of government efforts aimed at poverty eradication. Firstly poverty is discussed and how it is impacting on education. This is followed by a theoretical analysis of development conjunctures and a discussion of how the DoE is responding to poverty
Accountability : an essential aspect of school governance
No full textThe South African education system is still in a transformation process. Old apartheid structures and governance are objects of restructuring and transformation. The transformation of the education system is carried out to promote and uphold the founding principles of the Constitution and the fundamental rights and freedoms of every person. Among the many aspects of the education system that need to be redressed is the management of schools. In this article, the author highlights problems and issues emerging from democratisation of the
management of schools. In particular, the problems emanating from accountability questions such as: Whose responsibility is it? What are the place, position and responsibilities of parents in school governance? What are their duties and responsibilities with regard to accountability? The author attempts to identify essentials and forms of accountability within the spectrum of school governance and the focus is on the accountability of parents and the accountability of principals and teachers to the school-governing body. Comments and
recommendations are stated in the final section
Education and poverty reduction strategies: issues of policy coherence
No full textThe author discusses the debate round the question if there is a link between education and poverty reduction?
Education and poverty: development policy options in a democratic era
No full textThe main argument of this chapter is not about lack of consensus in definition and measurement. Most people will claim that their understanding of poverty is the correct one, based on logical argument or scientific research. Poverty is a contested concept. The author argues that poverty is an acceptable state of affairs. Something needs to be done about it. The analysis focuses on theories and policy trajectories directed at improved understanding of government efforts aimed at poverty eradication. Firstly poverty is discussed and how it is impacting on education. This is followed by a theoretical analysis of development conjunctures and a discussion of how the DoE is responding to poverty
Meander
No full textThis work was embargoed by the author and will not be publicly available until April 2020.This narrative nonfiction road-trip-on-a-river explores the extremes of outdoor living and death on a series of unguided whitewater wilderness trips through the Grand Canyon. As the narrator and her main characters descend the Colorado River on inflatable rafts themes of place, nature and the human spirit’s relationship to those elements are explored as 16 people are forced to adjust to the social challenges of living together among culturally and spiritually divergent tastes. Secondary topics of geology, river safety, environmental protection and how to prepare for such a trip logistically, psychologically and physically are addressed throughout the text and in supplementary appendices
