Development Finance and Policy Reform: Essays in Theory and Practice of Conditionality in Less Developed Countries
ISBN: 9780333569672 / Angielski / Twarda / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Conditionality has long been used by the IMF, and more recently by World Bank and bilateral donors, as an instrument for improving the effectiveness of international finance. This collection of essays, by representatives of donors and recipients as well as independent observers, suggests that because of recipients' increased bargaining power, such an improvement has seldom resulted.
Conditionality has long been used by the IMF, and more recently by World Bank and bilateral donors, as an instrument for improving the effectiveness o...
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586,33 zł |
Development Perspectives for the 1990s
ISBN: 9780333545669 / Angielski / Twarda / 325 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The most pressing problem for most developing countries is how to reverse the adverse trends of the 1980s and create the conditions for sustainable development. The contributors to this volume bring a great variety of experience, background and interest to bear on this issue. Considerable attention is given to the design of appropriate structural adjustment programmes and the role of debt reduction, food aid and the European Community in this context. The need for an adaptive evolutionary approach to problems of development is, perhaps, the central theme to the volume.
The most pressing problem for most developing countries is how to reverse the adverse trends of the 1980s and create the conditions for sustainable de...
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586,33 zł |
Custodians of the Commons: Pastoral Land Tenure in Africa
ISBN: 9781853834738 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An examination of the conflicts facing traditional pastoralist societies within the developing nations of Africa. The book explores the forms of traditional land tenure and access to grazing resources, which are being increasingly eroded by modern forms of ownership and development. It shows how communal land tenure arrangements are essential not only for the survival of these societies but also to manage the pastures and rangelands in question. The case studies are by local experts. They cover Kenya, Mali, Senegal, Mauritania, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. Each looks at: the political and...
An examination of the conflicts facing traditional pastoralist societies within the developing nations of Africa. The book explores the forms of tradi...
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108,48 zł |
Corruption, Development and Underdevelopment
ISBN: 9780333433287 / Angielski / Twarda / 191 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Corruption, for most of us, almost immediately evokes images of the third world especially countries like Nigeria, Mexico and India. Whilst we may concede that corruption exists in developed countries it is generally thought to be under control. Despite such widely-held views there is very little hard evidence on the actual extent of corruption in any country. This book strives to look behind impressions in an attempt to determine what factors underlie the high profile of corruption in UDCs. For an adequate understanding of the phenomenon the global character of corruption is emphasized as...
Corruption, for most of us, almost immediately evokes images of the third world especially countries like Nigeria, Mexico and India. Whilst we may con...
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586,33 zł |
Chinese Diaspora and Mainland China
ISBN: 9780333653340 / Angielski / Twarda / 337 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book describes the alliance, since the mid-1980s, of the entrepreneurs of the Chinese diaspora with the new locally based industrialisation that reform in China has allowed to flourish in its townships and villages. The synergy between these two derives from the ability of small non-bureaucratic actors on both sides to establish networks based on personal trust and reciprocity, producing a new kind of transformative development-from-below in which established Western and Japanese multinationals have little role.
The book describes the alliance, since the mid-1980s, of the entrepreneurs of the Chinese diaspora with the new locally based industrialisation that r...
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390,87 zł |
Women and Integrated Pest Management
ISBN: 9781853394829 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rural women, on average, spend more time on pest management than do men. Yet few related publications are available. This wide-ranging book outlines issues from health to reasons for women's involvement in integrated pest management. Contains pioneering case studies from Vietnam, Indonesia, Russia, Costa Rica, Honduras, Tanzania and Ghana.
Epilogue by Janice Jiggins. Rural women, on average, spend more time on pest management than do men. Yet few related publications are available. This wide-ranging book outlines i...
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129,24 zł |
Beyond the Developmental State: East Asia's Political Economies Reconsidered
ISBN: 9780333690680 / Angielski / Twarda / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of essays examines the historical influence of states in East Asia's political economies, and considers their contributions to the ongoing social, economic and political transformation of the countries in this region. They show that the status of these so-called developmental states have evolved over time, and that their role and capacity have been significantly related to the social bases and cultural roots of the relevant countries.
This collection of essays examines the historical influence of states in East Asia's political economies, and considers their contributions to the ong...
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390,87 zł |
Development Through Technology Transfer: Creating New Cultural and Organisational Understanding
ISBN: 9781841508610 / Angielski / Miękka / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book covers the practical issues of technology transfer, including product, process, cost reduction, integration of local materials, import substitution, employee involvement, and the improvement of safety and working conditions. These concerns are integrated with an analysis of theories of innovation, to identify the key stages in the process of technology transfer and achieve a working model of how such projects can be more effectively managed. Development through Technology Transfer seeks to combine technology transfer with other major related development issues, using company-specific...
The book covers the practical issues of technology transfer, including product, process, cost reduction, integration of local materials, import substi...
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129,00 zł |
Football Cultures and Identities
ISBN: 9780333730102 / Angielski / Miękka / 259 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The game of football has played a key role in shaping and cementing senses of national identity throughout the world. Aware that the game may afford a space for expressing protest, groups may attempt to harness the forces of populist nationalism. This book examines football in 18 countries.
The game of football has played a key role in shaping and cementing senses of national identity throughout the world. Aware that the game may afford a...
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390,87 zł |
Governance for Sustainable Development: A Foundation for the Future
ISBN: 9781844072071 / Angielski / Twarda / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Good governance was identified at the World Summit on Sustainable Development as a critical factor for ensuring successful sustainable development. This book features the briefing papers that were presented at the Summit, and addresses the role and reform of global institutions and processes.
Good governance was identified at the World Summit on Sustainable Development as a critical factor for ensuring successful sustainable development. Th...
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639,65 zł |
Chelewa, Chelewa: The Dilemma of Teenage Girls
ISBN: 9789171063540 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the past, the transition from childhood to womanhood was immediate and direct, and menarche was a sign of initiation and readiness to marry. Nowadays girls find themselves trapped between customary expectations and the claims of modernization.
In the past, the transition from childhood to womanhood was immediate and direct, and menarche was a sign of initiation and readiness to marry. Nowa...
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130,50 zł |
Negotiating Health: Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines
ISBN: 9781844072958 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In developing countries, access to affordable medicines for the treatment of diseases such as AIDS and malaria, remains a matter of life or death. In Africa, for instance, more than one million children die each year from malaria alone, a figure which could soon be far higher with the extension of patent rules for pharmaceuticals. Previously, access to essential medicines was made possible by the supply of much cheaper generies, manufactured largely by India; from this year, however, the availability of these drugs is threatened as new WTO rules take effect. Halting the spread of malaria and...
In developing countries, access to affordable medicines for the treatment of diseases such as AIDS and malaria, remains a matter of life or death. In ...
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219,99 zł |
How to Make and Use the Treadle Irrigation Pump
ISBN: 9781853393129 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The treadle irrigation pump is able to lift up to seven thousand litres of water per hour using the power of the human body, and can be made locally at low cost in small-scale metalworking shops. Its acceptance in Bangladesh where it was first developed in 1984 is extraordinary, with over 500,000 pumps estimated now to be in use. The current design in this manual has evolved from the Bangladesh original into a fully portable pump with both lift and pressure capacity and is especially good for use in permeable soils where water cannot easily be distributed through channels.
The treadle irrigation pump is able to lift up to seven thousand litres of water per hour using the power of the human body, and can be made locally a...
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86,09 zł |
How to Make a Metal-Bending Machine
ISBN: 9780903031295 / Angielski / Miękka / 20 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Using simple plans and photographs this booklet describes the construction and assembly of a metal-bending machine, whose main feature is the ability to form wheel rims from cold flat mild steel; this wheel can be used on farm carts and other basic equipment.
Using simple plans and photographs this booklet describes the construction and assembly of a metal-bending machine, whose main feature is the ability ...
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Development Crises and Alternative Visions: Third World Women's Perspectives
ISBN: 9781853830006 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. More than half of the world's farmers are women. They are the majority of the poor, the uneducated and are the first to suffer from drought and famine. This book analyzes the policies towards Third World women. It focuses on global economic and political crises such as debt, famine, militarization, fundamentalism.
More than half of the world's farmers are women. They are the majority of the poor, the uneducated and are the first to suffer from drought and famine...
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184,17 zł |
Air Pollution and Health in Rapidly Developing Countries
ISBN: 9781853839665 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As many as one billion people are regularly exposed to indoor air pollution levels exceeding WHO guidelines by up to 100 times. This book addresses issues of particular importance to developing countries where polluting activies have been growing, but local research and preventive and protective measures are at an early stage. There have been considerable advances in the epidemiology of air pollution, changes in the international air pollution guidelines and the emergence of more systematic approaches to air pollution prevention and control. This text is intended to fill a gap in the...
As many as one billion people are regularly exposed to indoor air pollution levels exceeding WHO guidelines by up to 100 times. This book addresses is...
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168,82 zł |
Economic Management and Economic Development in Peru and Colombia
ISBN: 9780333546888 / Angielski / Miękka / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Today Peru is undoubtedly poorer than Colombia. Yet at the turn of the century the opposite was true. This study asks why Peru has made relatively so much less progress, and finds part of the answer in the greater coherence and competence of short term policy management in Colombia. Whether the international economy has provided positive or negative shocks, Colombia has tended to manage them more skilfully than Peru - not be relying on the market but by generally pragmatic and prudent interventionist policies.
Today Peru is undoubtedly poorer than Colombia. Yet at the turn of the century the opposite was true. This study asks why Peru has made relatively so ...
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195,42 zł |
Environment, Security and Un Reform
ISBN: 9780333605905 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents a study of international relations theory and the role of the United Nations in international environmental negotiations. The book links discussion of three issues: the persistence of third-world debt, the environmental abuse of the global commons and the financial and institutional crises within the UN system. It includes a summary of both the achievements and limitations of the 1992 Rio Summit, (UNCED), and concludes with far reaching proposals for the restructuring of UN activities.
This book presents a study of international relations theory and the role of the United Nations in international environmental negotiations. The book ...
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Development Administration: From Underdevelopment to Sustainable Development
ISBN: 9780333566183 / Angielski / Twarda / 161 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines administrative changes and reforms carried out in the developing nations: it looks at the role of the state, various administrative reforms carried out at the behest of the West but never fully materialized, and events leading to policy failures and administrative mishaps. It is a story of failed developmental goals told through the looking glass of administration and it is about directing, managing, and controlling the means used in and by Third World countries to achieve development. In addition to a history of development administration, this volume includes an analysis...
This book examines administrative changes and reforms carried out in the developing nations: it looks at the role of the state, various administrative...
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390,87 zł |
Africa's Recovery in the 1990s: From Stagnation and Adjustment to Human Development
ISBN: 9780333573150 / Angielski / Twarda / 375 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While the design of adjustment policies in the latter part of the 1980s has generally shown greater attention to their impact on growth and social implications, this book argues that several orthodox adjustment policies are still incongruent with long-term development in Africa. It goes on to discuss a development strategy which could lead to a much awaited economic recovery and improvement in social conditions in Africa in the 1990s drawing its conclusions from a general theoretical discussion and national case-studies.
While the design of adjustment policies in the latter part of the 1980s has generally shown greater attention to their impact on growth and social imp...
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390,87 zł |