Programmer og projekter

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Elites, Production and Poverty: A Comparative Study

This research programme is a comparative study of the political economy of elites support and the implementation of pro-poor productive sector initiatives in five countries: Bangladesh, Ghana, Mozambique, Tanzania and Uganda.
Involverede DIIS forskere: Ole Therkildsen (Programme Coordinator), Lars Buur, Lindsay Whitfield.

Individuelle projekter

Poverty Reduction Through a New Agenda for Agriculture in Africa: Policy Change and Its Impact in Soroti District, Uganda

The study analyzes change in the social accountability relationship between local government, farmer institutions and private providers of agricultural services over the past decade and the impact on agricultural technology development and rural poverty reduction.
Involverede DIIS forskere: Esbern Friis-Hansen.

Elites in the Frozen Prawn Industry in Bangladesh

As part of the Research Programme on Elites and the New Poverty Agenda (ENPA), this project is an examination the role and nature of elites in a sub-sector of Bangladesh second most important export industry, frozen fish foods.
Involverede DIIS forskere: Neil Webster.

Elites in the Bangladesh Ready Made Garments Industry

As part of the Research Programme on Elites and the New Poverty Agenda (ENPA), this project is an examination of the role and nature of elites in Bangladesh most important export industry.
Involverede DIIS forskere: Neil Webster.

Citizenship, Political Parties and Democracy in West Bengal

A long term study of the evolving forms of participatory and representative democracy in local politics in the State of West Bengal, India.
Involverede DIIS forskere: Neil Webster.

Elites in the Mozambican Sugar Sector and Industry

As part of the Research Programme on Elites and the New Poverty Agenda (ENPA), this project examines the role and nature of elites in Mozambique’s most successfully rehabilitated agro-processing sector.
Involverede DIIS forskere: Lars Buur.

Elites in the Mozambican Small Scale Fish Sector

As part of the Research Programme on Elites and the New Poverty Agenda (ENPA), this project examines the role and nature of elites in Mozambique’s Small Scale Fish sector.
Involverede DIIS forskere: Lars Buur.

The Sovereignty of Patha-Patha: Crime, Citizenship and Public Authority in the New South Africa

The book project is a result of a postdoctoral project initiated in 2001, concerning justice enforcement and vigilantism in South African townships during democratic transition.
Involverede DIIS forskere: Lars Buur.

Post.Doc.-projekter

The Politics of Transnational Capitalism in Tanzania

This research analyzes the impact of transnational capitalist practices on the political authority of state elite in the current post-colonial setting of foreign mining investments in Tanzania.
Involverede DIIS forskere: France Bourgouin.

Decentralisation of Security Provisions and Citizenship. Community Policing in Mozambique and Ghana

The project explores how current state efforts to decentralise security provisions and include ordinary citizens in policing influence conditions of citizenship and state authority in transitional democracies.
Involverede DIIS forskere: Helene Maria Kyed.

Ph.d.-projekter

Decentralisation and Local Governance of Land in Africa. Land Reform Implementation and Citizen Participation in Tanzania.

The project investigates the implementation of the new wave of land reforms which have been passed by Sub-Saharan African countries during the last couple of decades. In 2003 land reforms were underway in more than twenty countries. Reforms are thought to increase security of rights to land and enhance economic growth. Because of their novelty, however, our knowledge about current land reforms is limited.

DIIS researchers involved: Rasmus Hundsbæk.

Poverty Alleviation as a Platform for Elite Configuration?

The PhD project focuses on liberalization reforms of the cotton sector in Benin and how different elite groups are influenced by the reforms and vice versa. A central part of the study is the relations and networks between different elites.
Involverede DIIS forskere: Tina Maria Jensen.

Security Sector Reform in Sierra Leone

The PhD project looks at local level implementation of Security Sector Reform in Sierra Leone, specifically in Kono District, the diamond rich area of the country.
Involverede DIIS forskere: Peter Alexander Albrecht.

Production of citizens through formal schooling: youth experiences and aspirations in rural Nepal
The PhD project explores young people’s experiences of involving in secondary schooling and how this informs the construction of their future aspirations and their becoming citizens in a period of political transition in Nepal
DIIS researchers involved: Birgitte Lind Petersen

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