This week, the discussion continues about elites and political settlement. I have learned that politics cannot separate itself from being associated with political actor and its behavior. Political actor often refers to the elites and it works to attain political settlement, which determine key driver that mediate politics of a state. Menocal (2015,p.7) describes political …
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Urwah Saari
International Development Analyst
Introduction Over the years, public policy has become the fundamental principle of administration in a nation state, a guideline and framework used by a government to run the country; and often became fundamental for development approach. While there are many forms of policy-making, the concept of ‘policy transfer’ has become an increasingly popular way to …
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Urwah Saari
International Development Analyst
In the foreign aid seminar at the International Development Department this week, Professor Amis talked about emerging donors in international development assistance. The emergence of new donors including China, the Arab’s countries and the BRICS bloc (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) among others in recent years has changed in what I defined as ‘development’s …
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Urwah Saari
International Development Analyst
