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Improving Canadian Foreign Aid: A Critique of Canada’s Aid Bureaucracy

By Amy Bronson

Economic Benefits of Antiretroviral Therapy Programs for Low and Middle-Income Countries: A Case for Universal Access to HIV Treatment

By Lindsey America-Simms

The Global “Brain Drain” of Health Professionals: An Examination of Ethical Recruitment Policies

By Erin McSorley

The Conditioning of Servitude: Governmentality of Indonesian Domestic Migrants in Singapore

By Monica Bennington

Land Reforms and Agriculture: The Institutional Path Towards Development: Comparative Case-Study of MExican Success and Pakistani Failure

By Murad Javed

Security Sector Reform and Democratic Transition in Sierra Leone: What’s Missing?
By Leah Stuart-Sheppard

Orientalism, Development and Thomas Pogge’s Global Resources Dividend
By Tejas Parasher

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Bourdieu’s Social Capital and Save the Mothers

By Sarah Rostom

Fighting Globalization with Globalization: The Battle Between Indigenous People and MNCs in Peru

By Raly Chakarova

Type 2 Diabetes in Rural Guatemala: Disease Perceptions, Service-Provision Difficulties and Management Techniques

By Matthew Little

Rethinking agricultural land acquisitions as a form of agricultural  investment in Senegal

By Anna Vanderkooy

Safeguarding Women’s rights: investigating the effectiveness of the convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women (CEDAW)

By Helen Bowman

Creating Closets or Communities? Homosexuality, Homophobia, and Processes of Change in Africa
By Bonnie Thornbury

Situating the Role of Traditional Midwives in San Juan la Laguna, Guatemala
By Dima Saab

Sophie Roher is a fourth year student in the Arts & Science Program at McMaster University. She completed the Foundation Year Program at the University of King’s College in Halifax and pursued her love of French at universities in both Lyon, France and Trois Rivières, Quebec. Sophie is co-chair of World University Services of Canada (WUSC)’s local committee at McMaster, which sponsors two refugee students each year to study at the university. Sophie is looking forward to another rewarding year at the Undercurrent.

Emma has recently completed her honours degree in international development studies and history at the University of Winnipeg. She has worked with the Escuela España in Peñaherrera, Ecuador, with the International Centre of Winnipeg, and as a research and teaching assistant at the University of Winnipeg. She hopes to pursue further studies in the near future with a focus on the history of development.

Ganeya decided to pursue International Development Studies after a life changing trip to Senegal where she realized that her life would be devoted to social change, namely in women’s rights, access to education, and environmental sustainability. On the side, she loves to blog about the random hoo-haa‘s of her day, spearheading numerous clubs on campus, and teaching yoga and meditation. She is excited to be working with the Undercurrent this year!

As a recent graduate from IDS at the University of Guelph I am taking a year off before pursuing a law degree. I am most interested in conflict and conflict resolution in African states and was lucky enough to spend sometime in East Africa this summer, which I miss dearly! I am very excited to have the opportunity to read such excellent work by undergrads in the field of IDS!

Amy Bronson graduated from the University of Guelph with an honours BA in International Development, emphasis in Economics and Business, in 2012. Her academic interests are in areas of gender studies, post-colonial thought, economic history, and marketing. Currently, she is on a CIDA IYIP internship in Malawi, Africa, working in gender equality and human resources within the Malawian Government.

Candice is in her third year of International Development Studies at the University of Guelph, with a specialization in Latin American Studies. She is currently obsessed with all things Guatemalan as she prepares for her semester abroad in Antigua, Guatemala this winter. When she doesn’t have her nose in a book, Candice is usually busy baking elaborate cakes and confections for her friends and family.

I’m in my last year of an honours B.A. in International Development Studies here at Dal. I spent last year on exchange in Sweden and South Korea, and previous to my studies at Dal I lived and studied aboard Class Afloat’s tall ship the S/V Concordia. My thesis is focusing on the relative lack of causal connection between diplomacy and development through a case study of the Dayton Peace Accords and Bosnian development. My free time consists of wine, Bob Marley, yoga, and news reading; or some combination therewith =)

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The Philippine Labour Export Policy: A Strategy for Temporary Economic Survival, Not for Long-term Development

By Ka Yee Lau

Sub-Surface Mineral-rights in Ontario: Origin, Structure, and Analysis Using a Free Market Environmentalism Approach

By Alexia Ackert, Stephanie Lalonde, Victoria Robson & Victoria Yang

Fair Trade: Re-evaluate and Get Back on Track

By Virgil Haden-Pawlowski

The Importance of History in Political Reconstruction: Rwanda and Burundi

By Laura Solberg

Canadian Perspective on Queer Migration

By Vera Mirhady

Trafficking of Ethnic Minorities in Thailand: Forces Prostitution and the Perpetuation of Marginality

By Megan Mah