Graham Sherbut
Biographic Data
| ID | 1260672 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Graham Sherbut |
| GIVEN NAMES | Graham |
| FAMILY NAME | Sherbut |
| SIGNATURE | SHERBUT G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Howard College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Linking past and future
The 1895 Pamir Convention divided the mountainous region of Badakhshan into separate entities under Russian and British/Afghan influence, leading to a remarkable divergence in the development fortunes of a people once united by kinship. For those in today's Gorno-Badakhshan in Tajikistan, incorporation into the Soviet Union brought investments in education, health, physical infrastructure, and the economy. People living in Afghanistan's Badakhsha…
One size does not fit all
There have always been debates about the methods that should be used to inform and assess development programmes. Experimental methods have become highly advocated as agencies seek rigorous ways to show programme value. However, the benefits and appropriateness of these methods are frequently overstated. We use the Aga Khan Development Network's Quality of Life studies to show that periodic mixed methods approaches are useful to analyse programme…
Improving Quality of Life in Remote Mountain Communities
This article explores how physical remoteness influences the quality of life of people living in mountain communities in Afghanistan's Badakhshan Province. Basing its analysis on data obtained from a quality of life assessment carried out in Badakhshan, the article compares how quality of life indicators differed between villages that are more remote in terms of their access to markets, services, and transport, and those that are closer to small …
Ideas and Power Academic Economists and the Making of Economic Policy
This working paper written in 2007 reviews a quarter of a century of economic policy debates and reflections in South Africa before 1994 and after the coming into power of the ANC. It focuses in the relationship between academics, experts and governmental actors, as well as with foreign economists. It demonstrates in very great detail the changing of mind and of proposition of former anti-apartheid activists and the subsequent alignement with int…
Linking past and future
The 1895 Pamir Convention divided the mountainous region of Badakhshan into separate entities under Russian and British/Afghan influence, leading to a remarkable divergence in the development fortunes of a people once united by kinship. For those in today's Gorno-Badakhshan in Tajikistan, incorporation into the Soviet Union brought investments in education, health, physical infrastructure, and the economy. People living in Afghanistan's Badakhsha…
One size does not fit all
There have always been debates about the methods that should be used to inform and assess development programmes. Experimental methods have become highly advocated as agencies seek rigorous ways to show programme value. However, the benefits and appropriateness of these methods are frequently overstated. We use the Aga Khan Development Network's Quality of Life studies to show that periodic mixed methods approaches are useful to analyse programme…
Ideas and Power Academic Economists and the Making of Economic Policy
This working paper written in 2007 reviews a quarter of a century of economic policy debates and reflections in South Africa before 1994 and after the coming into power of the ANC. It focuses in the relationship between academics, experts and governmental actors, as well as with foreign economists. It demonstrates in very great detail the changing of mind and of proposition of former anti-apartheid activists and the subsequent alignement with int…
Ideas and Power Academic Economists and the Making of Economic Policy
This working paper written in 2007 reviews a quarter of a century of economic policy debates and reflections in South Africa before 1994 and after the coming into power of the ANC. It focuses in the relationship between academics, experts and governmental actors, as well as with foreign economists. It demonstrates in very great detail the changing of mind and of proposition of former anti-apartheid activists and the subsequent alignement with int…
Improving Quality of Life in Remote Mountain Communities
This article explores how physical remoteness influences the quality of life of people living in mountain communities in Afghanistan's Badakhshan Province. Basing its analysis on data obtained from a quality of life assessment carried out in Badakhshan, the article compares how quality of life indicators differed between villages that are more remote in terms of their access to markets, services, and transport, and those that are closer to small …
One size does not fit all
There have always been debates about the methods that should be used to inform and assess development programmes. Experimental methods have become highly advocated as agencies seek rigorous ways to show programme value. However, the benefits and appropriateness of these methods are frequently overstated. We use the Aga Khan Development Network's Quality of Life studies to show that periodic mixed methods approaches are useful to analyse programme…
Linking past and future
The 1895 Pamir Convention divided the mountainous region of Badakhshan into separate entities under Russian and British/Afghan influence, leading to a remarkable divergence in the development fortunes of a people once united by kinship. For those in today's Gorno-Badakhshan in Tajikistan, incorporation into the Soviet Union brought investments in education, health, physical infrastructure, and the economy. People living in Afghanistan's Badakhsha…
Economic growth (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Development economics (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Quality (philosophy (2 works) · Advanced Causal Inference Techniques (1 work) · Aid effectiveness (1 work)