Category Archives: Development

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY MOTIVES OF PRIVATE SECURITY COMPANY EMPLOYEES FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY MOTIVES OF PRIVATE SECURITY COMPANY EMPLOYEES FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT You must be logged in to view this content. Click here to register  

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How Aid Became Big Business

How Aid Became Big Business   “Funded by American People.” The Millennium Challenge Corporation marks its work in Tanzania. Image by Matt Kennard. Tanzania, 2015. Add this image to a lesson… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading

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XLA Associates, Inc.

XLA Associates, Inc. B-412333.2: Jan 29, 2016 Summary View Decision View Decision (PDF, 11 pages) DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading

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The Rise of the Development Industrial Complex

Published on February 5th, 2016 | by David Isenberg The Rise of the Development Industrial Complex  by David Isenberg The private military and security contracting (PMSC) industry has long claimed, not… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading

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Beltway Bandits’ and ‘Poverty Barons’: For-Profit International Development Contracting and the Military-Development Assemblage

Beltway Bandits’ and ‘Poverty Barons’: For-Profit International Development Contracting and the Military-Development Assemblage Vijay Kumar Nagaraj Article first published online: 21 MAY 2015 Development and Change FORUM 2015 Volume 46, Issue… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading

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Beltway Bandits’ and ‘Poverty Barons’: For-Profit International Development Contracting and the Military-Development Assemblage

Beltway Bandits’ and ‘Poverty Barons’: For-Profit International Development Contracting and the Military-Development Assemblage Vijay Kumar Nagaraj Article first published online: 21 MAY 2015 © 2015 International Institute of Social Studies Development… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading

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Watchdog Wary of Loosely Defined Program for Afghan Women

Watchdog Wary of Loosely Defined Program for Afghan Women By Charles S. Clark 12:55 PM ET An Afghan woman walks to a polling station in Kabul. David Guttenfelder/AP file photo The… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading

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Feds canceled Deloitte Palestinian contract on evidence of joint cover-up

Feds canceled Deloitte Palestinian contract on evidence of joint cover-up By Sarah Westwood | March 26, 2015 | 2:53 pm “Taking full credit” for the Palestinian farmers’ additional income “would go… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading

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Guns and bread: it’s not unusual to see private security companies in conflict-hit regions–but as deliverers of development?

Guns and bread: it’s not unusual to see private security companies in conflict-hit regions–but as deliverers of development? Michael Lewis on the khaki future of international aid Author(s): Michael Lewis Source:New… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading

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Hired Gun Fight: Obama’s aid chief takes on the development-industrial complex

Hired Gun Fight Obama’s aid chief takes on the development-industrial complex. BY JOHN NORRIS | JULY 18, 2012 Rajiv Shah, President Barack Obama’s U.S. Agency for International Development administrator, is waging… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading

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