Browsing Brage NMBU by Author "Shanmugaratnam, Nadarajah"
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Between a rock and a hard place : pressures reducing NGO managers' ability to analyze the effects of their organizations' financial transactions
Øye, Geir (Master thesis, 2013-09-06)The purpose of this research has been to study factors, both internal/organizational as well as external, that can reduce NGO managers’ ability to critically analyze the effects their organizations’ financial transactions ... -
Bringing the workers' rights back in? : the discourse and politics of fortifying core labour standards through a labour-trade linkage
Pahle, Simon (PhD Thesis;2011:16, Doctoral thesis, 2011)Throughout the 1990s the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) conducted a campaign to convince states to institute a linkage between the international labour and trade regimes (also dubbed a social ... -
Conflict, Corruption, Perception, Remedies (The role of the United Nations in War Economies)
Hansen, Stig Jarle; Sørvig, Inger Kristine; Shanmugaratnam, Nadarajah; Kjosavik, Darley (Noragric Working Papers;47, Working paper, 2012-08) -
Development in a changing climate : local impacts of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in Attappady, Kerala
Adam, Hans Nicolai (PhD Thesis;2015:55, Doctoral thesis, 2017-07-05)The thesis analyses the role of one of India’s central social security schemes, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), in the context of climate change adaptation. A conceptual exploration ... -
Forced migration and changing local political economies: A study from North-western Sri Lanka
Shanmugaratnam, Nadarajah (Noragric Working Papers;22, Working paper, 2000-12)Forced migrations are an endemic phenomenon of the internal war going on in Sri Lanka since 1983. Currently about a million people have been internally displaced. The vast majority of them are Tamils from the war-torn ... -
Internally displaced persons in Sudan : a study of livelihood and coping strategies under protracted displacement
Gundersen, Janne (Master thesis, 2016-11-22)The numbers of displaced people in the world due to conflict is now the highest ever recorded. This study looks at the situation for internally displaced people in general, and in Sudan in particular with exploring ... -
NPA’s Southern Sudan Programme : an assessment with reference to the current Sudanese context and future institutional cooperation with Noragric
Shanmugaratnam, Nadarajah (Noragric report;19, Report, 2003) -
Politics and property rights regimes in land in Arsi Negele and Hetossa, South-Central Oromia, Ethiopia: Late 1880s-2006
Jemma, Hussein (PhD Thesis;2010:38, Doctoral thesis, 2010)This study explores the role of politics in shaping changes and continuities in property rights regimes in rural land in Arsi Negele and Hetossa Districts (Woreda) in South-Central Oromia, Ethiopia, in historical perspective. ... -
Poverty and governance in post-1991 Ethiopia : a political-economy study
Bekele, Yeshtila Wondemeneh (PhD Thesis;2018:56, Doctoral thesis, 2018)In the post-1991 period, Ethiopia has committed itself to breaking the vicious cycle of poverty through various poverty reduction strategies. Although there have been remarkable achievements, poverty remains an obstacle ... -
Resettlement, resource conflicts, livelihood revival and reintegration in South Sudan : a study of the processes and institutional issues at the local level in Magwi County
Shanmugaratnam, Nadarajah (Noragric report;58, Report, 2010) -
State-Society Relations in Ethiopia: A Political-Economy Perspective of the Post-1991 Order
Bekele, Yeshitila Wondemeneh; Kjosavik, Darley Jose; Shanmugaratnam, Nadarajah (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)This article analyses state-society relations in Ethiopia with particular emphasis on the post-1991 period. The objective of the study is to identify and analyse the fundamental factors of state-society relations at the ... -
The non-coercive road to serfdom : Friedrich Hayek's theory of distributive justice in the context of causal determinism
Schmidt, Henning Berg (Master thesis, 2018)With so many conflicting conceptions of ‘development’, it seems important to find objective criteria to judge them by. The thesis proposes that it should be their alignment with normative ethics, where the question of free ... -
The persistent adivasi demand for land rights and the forest rights act 2006 in kerala, india
Kjosavik, Darley Jose; Shanmugaratnam, Nadarajah (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)