The role of women in disputing among the Ila of Zambia: political adaptation in legal change

African Studies Center Working Paper No. 46This article examines the role of female litigants within the changing social context of disputing and dispute processing among the Ila of Zambia. While the historical and contemporary case material upon which this article is based ultimately reveals a complexity of substantive and procedural points of law across the spectrum of disputing modes and disputing forums available to aggrieved Ila females, here I am more concerned with the elaboration of social realities in legal process -- the social forces which shape legal expectations. Such elaboration, I argue, requires not only an examination of law and dispute settlement, but also the political context of disputing and dispute processing. This article, therefore, addresses itself to rather skeletal theory generated from research conducted under the broad heading of "the politics of law." [TRUNCATED

Federal Reserve assets: understanding the pieces of the pie

One way to examine the composition of assets on the Fed's balance sheet is to group them according to the objectives of the programs used to acquire them.Government securities ; Fiscal policy

Early Conclusions from The Mixed-Income Demonstration Program: Reaching Extremely Low-Income Families in Mixed-Income Settings

This report contains the results of a special Congressionally-appropriated grant program to develop affordable multi-family housing that serves extremely low income households. The grants included capital grant "gap" funding for NeighborWorks organizations operating and preserving affordable multi-family housing