Ramachandran,Vijaya (Author) and Walz,Julie (Author)
Format:
Pamphlet
Publication Date:
Feb 2013
Published:
Center for Global Development
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
4 p., An estimated $9 billion of public and private funding has been spent on disaster recovery in Haiti since the 2010 earthquake. Of that, $2.25 billion in public funding has been disbursed by the United States alone. But despite the large amount of public money involved, it is nearly impossible to track how it has been spent and what has been achieved. The transparency and accountability of US spending in Haiti needs to be improved. The authors suggest three steps to do so: Require prime contractors to report subcontracting data, Adopt the International Aid Transparency Initiative, and Require systematic, and publically available evaluations by NGOs and contractors.
McDonald,Roderick A. (Author) and Sheridan,Richard B. (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1996
Published:
Barbados: Press University of the West Indies
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
388 p, Contents: Richard B. Sheridan : the making of a Caribbean economic historian / Howard Johnson -- Capture of the blue dove, 1664 : policy, profits and protection in early English Jamaica / Nuala Zahedieh -- Taylor manuscript and seventeenth-century Jamaica / David Buisseret -- English Quaker merchants and war at sea, 1689-1783 / Jacob M. Price -- Edward Trelawny's "Grand Elixir" : metropolitan weakness and constitutional reform in the mid-eighteenth-century British empire / Jack P. Greene -- Botanical and horticultural enterprise in eighteenth-century Jamaica / Douglas Hall -- West India interest and the crisis of American independence / Andrew J. O'Shaughnessy -- United States and the British West Indian trade, 1783-1807 / Selwyn H. H. Carrington -- Property rights in pleasure : the marketing of slave women's sexuality in the West Indies / Hilary McD. Beckles -- Story of two Jamaican slaves : Sarah Affir and Robert McAlpine of Mesopotamia Estate / Richard S. Dunn -- Patterns of exchange within a plantation economy : Jamaica at the time of emancipation / B. W. Higman -- Planter profits and slave rewards : amelioration reconsidered / Mary Turner -- Abolition and emancipation : Williams, Drescher and the continuing debate / Walter Minchinton -- Ambivalencies of independence : the transition out of slavery in the Bahamas, c. 1800-1850 / Michael Craton -- Land and labour problem at the time of the legal emancipation of the British West Indian slaves / Stanley L. Engerman Urban crime and social control in St. Vincent during the apprenticeship / Roderick A. McDonald -- "Repression is not a policy" : Sydney Olivier on the West Indies and Africa / Richard A. Lobdell
Focuses on the role of young women in the development of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Mentions the pregnancy in LAC is caused by the low socioeconomic situation of young women. States that the lack of information on sexuality education and an inclusive system for health and social protection will increase the chance of poverty.
Demonstrate how the priority of education in Cuban social policy, from its outset after the 1959 revolution, has privileged women. Statistics chart the rapid increase in educational level and attainment over the decades and the high degree of feminization of higher education and thus the skilled labor force; and today Cuba ranks among the countries with the highest indicators in the United Nations' Millennium Goals with respect to education and gender equity.
