International Development

Implementing Education Reform in India: The Primary School Textbook Debate and Resistance to Change in Kerala

Publication Date: August 01, 2000

As the 1998-99 school year began in the state of Kerala, India, state education officials were setting out to bring radical change to government schools. A new approach designed to be child-friendly and to de-emphasize rote learning and...

Bangkok's Skytrain (B)

Publication Date: July 01, 2000

In December 1999 Skytrain, the first rail mass transit line to be financed, built and operated by a private company in at least 50 years, opened in Bangkok, Thailand. Skytrain's owners had a concession from the Bangkok metropolitan government to...

Bangkok's Skytrain (A): Opening the System

Publication Date: July 01, 2000

In December 1999 Skytrain, the first rail mass transit line to be financed, built and operated by a private company in at least 50 years, opened in Bangkok, Thailand. Skytrain's owners had a concession from the Bangkok metropolitan government to...

Ethics in International Research: the Debate over Clinical Trials of AZT to Prevent Mother-to-Infant Transmission of HIV in Developing Nations

Publication Date: September 01, 1999

Breakthroughs in the early 1990s in the treatment of AIDS in the US and other developed countries were bleakly complemented by continued increases in the incidence of AIDS and persistently high mortality rates in poor countries, especially those...

Corruption in La Paz: A Mayor Fights City Hall (Sequel)

Publication Date: September 01, 1999

When a young, former mining executive with no previous elective office experience is elected Mayor of La Paz, Bolivia in 1985, he expects to attack notorious inefficiency and overstaffing aggressively. But, within weeks, Mayor Ronald MacLean...

Corruption in La Paz: A Mayor Fights City Hall

Publication Date: September 01, 1999

When a young, former mining executive with no previous elective office experience is elected Mayor of La Paz, Bolivia in 1985, he expects to attack notorious inefficiency and overstaffing aggressively. But, within weeks, Mayor Ronald MacLean...

Dealing with Unexpected Opposition: The Singapore Tourism Board and the Chinatown Enhancement Plan (Sequel)

Publication Date: August 01, 1999

When a powerful government agency, the Singapore Tourism Board, explores the idea of publicly-supported renewal of the city-state's so-called Chinatown district, it goes through an elaborate process of community consultation. Yet when the plan...

Dealing with Unexpected Opposition: The Singapore Tourism Board and the Chinatown Enhancement Plan

Publication Date: August 01, 1999

When a powerful government agency, the Singapore Tourism Board, explores the idea of publicly-supported renewal of the city-state's so-called Chinatown district, it goes through an elaborate process of community consultation. Yet when the plan...

ANDA: Transforming El Salvador's Water Company

Publication Date: September 01, 1998

In 1998, most officials in El Salvador recognize that the water infrastructure and the institutions responsible for managing that infrastructure are in disrepair. Without reforms, the country would be unable to provide water and sewerage...

The Long Road Ahead: Seeking Recovery for War-Torn Mozambique

Publication Date: August 01, 1998

When Joaquin Chissano, newly-elected president of the East African nation of Mozambique, took office in October, 1994, he inherited the despair and destruction which had followed 16 years of civil war. This so-called "in box" case frames the...

The Long Road Ahead: Seeking Recovery for War-Torn Mozambique (Epilogue)

Publication Date: August 01, 1998

When Joaquin Chissano, newly-elected president of the east African nation of Mozambique, takes office in October, 1994, he inherits the despair and destruction which has followed 16 years of civil war. This so-called "in box" case frames the...

Aguas de Cartagena: The Privatization of Water in Cartagena, Colombia (Sequel)

Publication Date: July 01, 1998

In 1992, Mayor Gabriel Garcia Romero confronted a situation all too familiar in developing countries--an inadequate and under capitalized water system. Only 28 percent of Cartagena's households had reliable drinking water. Thirty percent were...