A.H.J. (Bert) Helmsing
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Dr A.H.J. Helmsing is Professor of Local & Regional Development at the international Institute of Social Studies at the Erasmus University, the Netherlands.
A meta-analysis of practice, policy and theories
Sietze Vellema , A.H.J. (Bert) Helmsing | 17 November 2011
The discussion in this blog is about shaping platforms for knowledge generation, exchange and utilisation. Our input identifies the function of a knowledge platform as using existing research, in practice, policy and academia, for a meta-level ana...
Emerging and traditional partners of Africa
A.H.J. (Bert) Helmsing | 15 November 2011
Many observers regarded Africa as a lost continent just over a decade ago. The stabilization and structural adjustment programmes of the 1980s and liberalization of the economy in the 1990s had not produced the desired private sector investment re...