Canada-Latin America municipal exchange as a strategy for regional development: Some observations on the cost-benefit balance sheet

Journal of Developing Areas

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 447-462

  Hewitt, W E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT; MUNICIPAL EXCHANGE; NORTH-SOUTH COOPERATION; PARTNERSHIP APPROACH; URBAN DEVELOPMENT;

LATIN AMERICA;

EID: 0030390854     PISSN: 0022037X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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2. Robert Carty and Virginia Smith, Perpetuating Poverty (Toronto: Between the Lines, 1981);
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5. Desmond McNeill, The Contradictions of Foreign Aid (London: Croon Helm, 1981).
6. See Michael Shuman, Towards a Global Village: International Community Development Initiatives (London: Pluto, 1994), pp. 1-9.
7. Shuman, Towards a Global Village, pp. 24-25.
8. See note 1. On the question of technical aid more specifically, see also Jack Baranson, North-South Technology Transfer (Mt. Airy, MD: Lomond, 1981);
9. Kathryn McKinley and Roger Young, Technology and the Third World (Ottawa: North-South Institute, 1979);
10. and James H. Street and Dilmus James, eds., Technological Progress in Latin America: The Prospects for Overcoming Dependency (Boulder, CO: Westview, 1979).
11. Heidi Hobbs, City Hall Goes Abroad (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1994).
12. Shuman, Towards a Global Village.
13. Shuman, Towards a Global Village, p. 27.
14. Dennis Rondinelli, "Increasing the Access of the Poor to Urban Services: Problems, Policy Alternatives, and Organizational Choices," in Urban Services in Developing Countries, ed. Dennis A. Rondinelli and G. Shabbir Cheema (London: Macmillan, 1988), pp. 19-57;
15. Richard Stren and P. McCarney, "Urban Research in the Developing World: Towards an Agenda for the 1990s," Major Report No. 26 (Center for Urban and Community Studies, Toronto, 1992), p. 4.
16. Thomas Blair, Urban Innovation Abroad (New York: Plenum, 1984), p. 2.
17. Edward G. Ebanks, "Las sociedades urbanizadas de América Latina y el Caribe: Algunas dimensiones y observaciones," Notas de Población 21 (1993): 125-60;
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19. Gerald Greenfield, "Brazil," in Latin American Urbanization, ed. Gerald Greenfield (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1994), p. 76;
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23. Violich, Urban Planning for Latin America, pp. 108-9.
24. Violich, Urban Planning for Latin America, pp. 109, 114.
25. Federation of Canadian Municipalities (hereafter FCM), International Office, Annual Review 1992-1993, Report (Ottawa: FCM, 1993), pp. 2-3, 5.
26. FCM, International Office, Annual Review 1993-1994, Report (Ottawa: FCM, 1994).
27. FCM, International Office, Benefits of International Partnerships for Canadian Municipalities, Report (Ottawa: FCM, 1993), pp. 3-7;
28. FCM, Annual Review 1993-1994, pp. 10, 14.
29. FCM, Annual Review 1993-1994, p. 15.
30. FCM, Annual Review 1993-1994, pp. 14-15.
31. FCM, International Office, "Municipal Professional Exchange Project: Phase 2, Linkage Activity Overview, October 1, 1991-May 31, 1994," Report (FCM, Ottawa, 1994, mimeographed).
32. Data on specific programs cited in this section are taken from FCM, Annual Review 1992-1993;
33. FCM, Benefits of International Partnerships for Canadian Municipalities;
34. FCM, Annual Review 1993-1994;
35. FCM, "Municipal Professional Exchange Project . . . October 1, 1991-May 31, 1994," as well as from reports produced by participating municipalities themselves. These include City of Calgary, "Memorandum of Understanding for a Strategic Economic Alliance between Calgary Economic Development Authority, City of Calgary, Province of Alberta, Canada, and Department of Economic Development, City of Naucalpan de Juarez, State of Mexico, United Mexican States," 1993;
36. City of Toronto Executive Committee Reports, re "Agreement for Social, Economic, Management and Technical Cooperation between the Cities of Lima and Toronto," January 1991, June 1991, April 1992, September 1993;
37. City of Charlesbourg, "Rapports Presentés à la Federation Canadienne des Municipalités," April 1994, August 1994, November 1994, December 1994;
38. various memoranda and correspondence concerning the Sisterhood Agreement between the City of Hamilton, Canada, and Monterrey, N.L., Mexico, May 1993-June 1994; Prefeitura do Município de São Paulo, Secretaria Municipal do Planejamento (SEMPLA), "Programa Municipal de Intercâmbio Profissional São Paulo-Toronto; Histórico 1986-1993";
39. City of Toronto, "Phase VII Agreement of Economic, Technical, and Management Cooperation between the Cities of Sáo Paulo and Toronto," 1994.
40. Olivia Boyce, International Municipal Development Cooperation and Business, Report produced under the authority of the Netherlands Association of Municipalities (NAM) (The Hague, Netherlands: NAM, 1994).
41. Stren and McCarney, "Urban Research in the Developing World," pp. 4, 54.
42. Cassen, Does Aid Work, pp. 210-11.