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Proposed Topics (Fall 2015)

1. Poverty reduction

I would like to work on this article because I am very interested in development economics and how to use the field to lift people out of poverty permanently. I want to expand this start class article and improve the neutrality of certain parts of the article. I would like to add information about the capabilities approach in order to expand the “Other approaches” section of the article. I would also like to research other methods of reducing poverty and include them in the article.

Arnell, Paul. "Extraterritorial Human Rights: A Tool For Poverty Reduction?" The Comparative and International Law Journal of Southern Africa 38.3 (2005): 396-414. JSTOR. Web. 10 Sept. 2015.

Belshaw, Deryke. "Sustainable Poverty Reduction: Taking Income Generation Seriously in Transformational Development Strategies." Transformation 22.2 (2005): 93-97. JSTOR. Web. 10 Sept. 2015.

Bourguignon, François. "Optimal Poverty Reduction, Adjustment, and Growth." The World Bank Economic Review 5.2 (1991): 315-38. JSTOR. Web. 9 Sept. 2015.

Buarque, Cristovam, Vida A. Mohorčič Špolar, and Tiedao Zhang. "Introduction: Education and Poverty Reduction." International Review of Education 52.3/4 (2006): 219-29. JSTOR. Web. 10 Sept. 2015.

Collier, Paul. "Poverty Reduction in Africa." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 104.43 (2007): 16763-6768. JSTOR. Web. 10 Sept. 2015.

Donaldson, John A. "Tourism, Development and Poverty Reduction in Guizhou and Yunnan." The China Quarterly No. 190 (2007): 333-51. JSTOR. Web. 10 Sept. 2015.

Nussbaum, Martha C. Creating Capabilities: The Human Development Approach. Cambridge: Belknap of Harvard UP, 2011. Print.

Sen, Amartya. Development As Freedom. New York: Knopf, 1999. Print.

Thorat, Sukhadeo, and Shenggen Fan. "Public Investment and Poverty Reduction: Lessons from China and India." Economic and Political Weekly 42.8 (2007): 704-10. JSTOR. Web. 9 Sept. 2015.

Toye, John. "Poverty Reduction." Development in Practice 17.4/5 (2007): 505-10. JSTOR. Web. 8 Sept. 2015.

2. Human rights in Nigeria

Nigeria is a country that has some of the most terrible human rights violations in the world, yet the Wikipedia article about it is not very comprehensive. I would like to expand the sections on government violations and Boko Haram to provide more historical context. Also, I would add more information about Nigeria’s history since independence, since that section is particularly short and could be more informative.

Adeola, Francis O. "Cross-National Environmental Injustice and Human Rights Issues: A Review of Evidence in the Developing World." American Behavioral Scientist 43.4 (2000): 686-706. Web. 10 Sept. 2015.

Aniekwu, Nkoli I. "Gender and Human Rights Dimensions of HIV / AIDS in Nigeria." African Journal of Reproductive Health 6.3 (2002): 30-37. JSTOR. Web. 9 Sept. 2015.

Cmiel, Kenneth. "The Recent History of Human Rights." The American Historical Review 109.1 (2004): 117-35. JSTOR. Web. 10 Sept. 2015.

Egede, Edwin. "Bringing Human Rights Home: An Examination of the Domestication of Human Rights Treaties in Nigeria." Journal of African Law 51.2 (2007): 249-84. JSTOR. Web. 10 Sept. 2015.

Ejidike, Okey M. "Human Rights in the Cultural Traditions and Social Practice of the Igbo of South-Eastern Nigeria." Journal of African Law 43.1 (1999): 71-98. JSTOR. Web. 9 Sept. 2015.

Ilesanmi, Simeon O. "Constitutional Treatment of Religion and the Politics of Human Rights in Nigeria." African Affairs 100.401 (2001): 529-54. Web. 10 Sept. 2015.

Merry, Sally E. "Transnational Human Rights and Local Activism: Mapping the Middle." American Anthropologist 108.1 (2006): 38-51. JSTOR. Web. 10 Sept. 2015.

Mitchell, Neil J., and James M. McCormick. "Economic and Political Explanations of Human Rights Violations." World Politics 40.4 (1988): 476-98. JSTOR. Web. 10 Sept. 2015.

Okere, B. Obinna. "The Protection of Human Rights in Africa and the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights: A Comparative Analysis with the European and American Systems." Human Rights Quarterly 6.2 (1984): 141-59. JSTOR. Web. 10 Sept. 2015.

Osaghae, Eghosa E. "Human Rights and Ethnic Conflict Management: The Case of Nigeria." Journal of Peace Research 33.2 (1996): 171-88. Web. 9 Sept. 2015.

3. Great Recession in Africa

I would like to work on this article because I am very interested in studying economic history. For an article that is supposed to be about Africa, there is a huge lack of information actually about Africa in the article. Most of the information is about how the recession affected other parts of the world. I would like to add sections that describe the recession’s effect on different regions and countries in Africa and expand the stub by adding more economic history.

Alonso, José A., and José A. Ocampo. Development Cooperation in Times of Crisis. New York: Columbia UP, 2012. Print.

Jua, Nantang B., and Francis B. Nyamnjoh. "Scholarship Production in Cameroon: Interrogating a Recession." African Studies Review 45.2 (2002): 49-71. JSTOR. Web. 10 Sept. 2015.

Llaudes, Ricardo, Ferhan Salman, and Mali Chivakul, “The Impact of the Great Recession on Emerging Markets” (October 2010). IMF Working Papers, 1-34, 2010.

Marais, Hein (2009) The Impact of the Global Recession on South Africa. Elcano Newsletter (58). 9 p. ISSN 1698-5184.

Stein, Howard. "Africa, Growth Sustainability and the Great Recession." (2015): 1-35. Political Economy Research Institute, July 2015. Web. 10 Sept. 2015.

Jwang19 (talk) 01:51, 11 September 2015 (UTC)

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Proposed Topics (Spring 2016)

1. Women in Egypt

I would like to work on this article because it is an important that should be addressed. In another class that I am currently taking, I read about how sexual harassment in Egypt is a barrier to women actively participating equally in society. When I went to look at the Wikipedia article, I realized it was outdated and not very comprehensive. I would like add more current information to the article and add sections on their political and social rights. I would also like to go a little more in depth on the history of women’s rights in Egypt.

Abu-Lughod, Lila. "Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving?" American Anthropologist 104.3 (2002): 783-90.

Donno, Daniela, and Bruce Russett. "Islam, Authoritarianism, and Female Empowerment: What Are the Linkages?" World Politics 56.4 (2004): 582-607.

Fish, Steven. "Islam and Authoritarianism." World Politics 55.1 (2002): 4-37.

Haghighat, Elhum. "Social Status and Change: The Question of Access to Resources and Women’s Empowerment in the Middle East and North Africa." Journal of International Women’s Studies 14.1 (2013): 273-99.

Mikdashi, Maya. "How Not to Study Gender in the Middle East." Jadaliyya, March 21, 2012. Accesssed January 25, 2016.

Moghadam, Valentine M., and Lucie Senftova. "Measuring Women's Empowerment: Participation and Rights in Civil, Political, Social, Economic, and Cultural Domains." International Science Journal 57.187 (2005): 389-412.

Moghadam, Valentine M. "The Gender of Democracy: The Link Between Women’s Rights and Democratization in the Middle East." Arab Reform Bulletin 2.7 (2004): 2-3. Rizzo, Helen, Abdel-Hamid Abdel-Latif, and Katherine Meyer. "The Relationship Between Gender Equality and Democracy: A Comparison of Arab Versus Non-Arab Muslim Societies." Sociology 41.6 (2007): 1151-170.

Ross, Michael L. "Oil, Islam, and Women." American Political Science Review 102.1 (2008): 107-23.

Shalaby, Marwa. “When Sexual Harassment Becomes a Barrier to Development.” Issue brief. Houston: Baker Institute, 2013.

World Bank. Opening Doors: Gender Equality and Development in the Middle East and North Africa. Rep. Washington, D.C.: World Bank, 2013.

2. Human rights in Myanmar

Myanmar has recently received attention because of its egregious human violations in the government’s treatment of the Rohingya people. I would like to expand on the information in this Wikipedia article by adding more current information on the state of human rights in Myanmar. I would also like to better organize this article to make the information more coherent and make the flow of the article easier to read.

Brooten, Lisa. "Blind Spots in Human Rights Coverage: Framing Violence Against the Rohingya in Myanmar/Burma." Popular Communication 13.2 (2015): 132-44.

Calderaro, Andrea. "Internet Governance Capacity Building in Post-Authoritarian Contexts: Telecom Reform and Human Rights in Myanmar." SSRN Journal (2015).

Chua, Lynette J., and David Gilbert. "Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Minorities in Transition: LGBT Rights and Activism in Myanmar." Human Rights Quarterly 37.1 (2015): 1-28.

Davies, Mathew. "The Perils of Incoherence: ASEAN, Myanmar and the Avoidable Failures of Human Rights Socialization?" Contemporary Southeast Asia: A Journal of International and Strategic Affairs 34.1 (2012): 1-22.

Davis, William W., Luke C. Mullany, Eh Kalu Shwe Oo, Adam K. Richards, Vincent Iacopino, and Chris Beyrer. "Health and Human Rights in Karen State, Eastern Myanmar." PLOS ONE 10.8 (2015).

Lang, Niki Esse De. "The Establishment and Development of the Myanmar National Human Rights Commission and Its Conformity with International Standards." Asia-Pacific Journal on Human Rights and the Law 13.1 (2012): 1-41.

Parmar, Parveen K., Jade Benjamin-Chung, Linda S. Smith, Saw Htoo, Sai Laeng, Aye Lwin, Mahn Mahn, Cynthia Maung, Daniel Reh, Eh Shwe Oo, Thomas Lee, and Adam K. Richards. "Health and Human Rights in Eastern Myanmar Prior to Political Transition: A Population-based Assessment Using Multistaged Household Cluster Sampling." BMC International Health and Human Rights 14.1 (2014): 15.

Pedersen, Morten B. "How to Promote Human Rights in the World's Most Repressive States: Lessons from Myanmar." Australian Journal of International Affairs 67.2 (2013): 190-202.

Smith, Alan. "Burma/Myanmar: The Struggle for Democracy and Ethnic Rights." Multiculturalism in Asia (2005): 262-87.

"World Report 2015: Burma." Human Rights Watch. Human Rights Watch, Accessed January 26, 2016.

3. Human rights in South Sudan

Ever since South Sudan declared its independence, it has seen a variety of human rights problems as its new government tries to establish its power. However, the Wikipedia article is very lacking in content on what is going on, and I would like to expand the information that is currently there and add more historical, political, social, and cultural background, as well as add specificity and depth of knowledge.

De Waal, Alex, and Abdul Mohammed. "Breakdown in South Sudan: What Went Wrong - And How to Fix It." Foreign Affairs. Last modified 1 Jan. 2014.

Jok, Jok M. Insecurity and Ethnic Violence in South Sudan: Existential Threats to the State? Rep. Juba: Sudd Institute, 2012.

Scott, Jennifer, Sarah Averbach, Anna Merport Modest, Michele R. Hacker, Sarah Cornish, Danielle Spencer, Maureen Murphy, and Parveen Parmar. "An Assessment of Gender Inequitable Norms and Gender-based Violence in South Sudan: A Community-based Participatory Research Approach." Conflict and Health 7.4 (2013): 1-11.

Sherwood, Leah F. "Women at a Crossroads: Sudanese Women and Political Transformation." Journal of International Women's Studies 13.5: 77-90.

Thomson, Mike. "Fear Stalks South Sudan, the World's Newest Country." BBC News. BBC News. Last modified February 22, 2013.

Jwang19 (talk) 03:18, 28 January 2016 (UTC)