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Communiques of Commonwealth Heads of Government Meetins 1997-2005
ISBN: 9780850928570 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume contains the full text of declarations, statements and communiques issued by Commonwealth Heads of Government between 1997 and 2005. It carries a Preface by Commonwealth Secretary-General Don McKinnon."
This volume contains the full text of declarations, statements and communiques issued by Commonwealth Heads of Government between 1997 and 2005. It ca...
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170,37 zł |
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Gender and Trade Action Guide: A Training Resource
ISBN: 9780850928624 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The links between gender, trade and development are increasingly being recognised. Developed out of a series of regional workshops, this Action Guide explores the different impacts of trade on women and men; provides practical tools on how to take advantage of the opportunities trade can offer to further development, alleviate poverty and promote gender equality; and suggests ways to get gender onto the international trade agenda. The Action Guide is flexible and can be used by trainers or for self-study. It includes case studies, activities, training suggestions and recommended readings...
The links between gender, trade and development are increasingly being recognised. Developed out of a series of regional workshops, this Action Guide ...
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267,73 zł |
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Beyond Civil Rights
ISBN: 9780855984748 / Angielski / Miękka / 74 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With the implementation of the Human Rights Act in October 2000, civil and political rights are for the first time directly enforceable in UK law. While welcoming this significant advance, the authors argue for further legislation, extending protection to economic, social, and cultural (ESC) rights, such as the right to education, to health care, and to a decent standard of living. Poverty and social exclusion are presented as a denial of human rights, and ESC entitlements as an essential foundation of citizenship.
The report considers the nature of ESC rights and their historical... With the implementation of the Human Rights Act in October 2000, civil and political rights are for the first time directly enforceable in UK law. Whi...
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115,10 zł |
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In the Public Interest: Health, Education, and Water and Sanitation for All
ISBN: 9780855985691 / Angielski / Miękka / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The global focus on raising more and better aid and securing debt relief means there is a growing need for clarity on how aid should be spent. More broadly there are questions about what poor country governments must and can do to ensure the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are met.
This report argues that the MDGs will not be achieved, and poverty will not be overcome, without universal access to quality basic services--including health and education--provided through strong public systems. Informed by program experience and research, this report highlights... The global focus on raising more and better aid and securing debt relief means there is a growing need for clarity on how aid should be spent. More br...
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76,67 zł |
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How Change Happens
ISBN: 9780855985974 / Angielski / Miękka / 59 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This report presents an overview of approaches used to explain social change from a wide range of academic perspectives, from history, politics, and economics to psychology and geography. These are summarized in a useful table, which presents a series of questions as a flexible tool for thinking about how change happens.
The author argues that current development thinking uses only a narrow range of approaches to change and the result is that most development strategies are limited. They are: excessively reformist and insensitive to underlying power and inequality; largely ignore... This report presents an overview of approaches used to explain social change from a wide range of academic perspectives, from history, politics, and e...
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115,10 zł |
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Practising Gender Equality in Education
ISBN: 9780855985981 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What does quality gender-equitable education look like? How can NGOs, practitioners, policymakers, and researchers work together to achieve it?
This book tackles these issues, drawing on the work of the Beyond Access, Gender, Education and Development project-a partnership between Oxfam GB, the Institute of Education (University of London), and the UK Department for International Development. The contributors discuss some of the key challenges in achieving gender equality in education, provide examples of initiatives in a range of contexts, and make recommendations for... What does quality gender-equitable education look like? How can NGOs, practitioners, policymakers, and researchers work together to achieve it?
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130,47 zł |
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From the Slave Trade to 'Free' Trade: How Trade Undermines Democracy and Justice in Africa
ISBN: 9780954563714 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This compilation of articlescommemorates the 200thanniversary of the abolition of the slave trade and the 50th anniversary of Ghana's independence. Drawing on lessons from the slave trade, studies of the international finance institutions, and the struggles of many African people to make a living, these essays provide insights into how free trade policies have a profoundly negative impact on democracy and justice in Africa. Whether it is the effects of trade policies on informal street traderswho in Africa are often womenthe decimation of a country's health system as a result of the World...
This compilation of articlescommemorates the 200thanniversary of the abolition of the slave trade and the 50th anniversary of Ghana's independence. Dr...
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96,60 zł |
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Silences in Ngo Discourse: The Role and Future of Ngos in Africa
ISBN: 9780954563752 / Angielski / Miękka / 82 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the most articulate critics of the destructive effects of neoliberal policies in Africa, and in particular of the ways in which they have eroded the gains of independence, Issa Shivji shows in two extensive essays in this bookthat the role of NGOs in Africa cannot be understood without placing them in their political and historical context.As structural adjustment programs were imposed across Africa in the 1980s and 1990s, the international financial institutions and development agencies began giving money to NGOs for programs to minimize the more glaring inequalities perpetuated by...
One of the most articulate critics of the destructive effects of neoliberal policies in Africa, and in particular of the ways in which they have erode...
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49,77 zł |
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Making Globalisation
ISBN: 9781403948670 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers a clear and concise account of the key debates in the globalization literature, serving as an accessible introduction to students new to the topic. It deals even-handedly with all the various dimensions of globalization--political, economic, social and cultural--and particularly draws attention to the role of people in processes of globalization. The book's historical dimension and its multicultural focus ensure that globalization is shown neither to be an inexorable process nor one that can be equated simply with Westernization.
This book offers a clear and concise account of the key debates in the globalization literature, serving as an accessible introduction to students new...
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666,12 zł |
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AIDS in Latin America
ISBN: 9781403969446 / Angielski / Twarda / 261 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this revealing book, the first to give a complete account of how the AIDS epidemic has affected our neighbors to the South, Timothy Frasca uncovers the enormous cultural changes which have taken place throughout Latin America as a result of the disease. He brings issues such as sexuality, class, and religious beliefs into the open for the first time. Compelling interviews with activists, people with AIDS, government leaders, and church leaders--all show how the epidemic has developed. Frasca draws lessons from Latin America and the strong activist involvement that succeeded in increasing...
In this revealing book, the first to give a complete account of how the AIDS epidemic has affected our neighbors to the South, Timothy Frasca uncovers...
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201,72 zł |
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Africa's Elusive Quest for Development
ISBN: 9781403971241 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Matt Houngnikpo examines how domestic conflict, economic stagnation, political instability, poverty and underdevelopment have plagued Africa for decades. He argues that a reversal of the political, economic and social plight of Africa lies in better policies, good governance, and, more importantly, a new type of African leader and citizen.
Matt Houngnikpo examines how domestic conflict, economic stagnation, political instability, poverty and underdevelopment have plagued Africa for decad...
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201,72 zł |
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Globalization and Uncertainty in Latin America
ISBN: 9781403978936 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Globalization and Uncertainty in Latin America gathers new scholarship on globalization and Latin America in an entertaining and well-researched volume. This balanced and innovative collection examines how rising levels of uncertainty affect daily life, as well as society, government, and culture. Well-known authors use different methodologies to approach the common theme of a region transformed in recent years by neoliberalism. Most of the contributors suggest that Latin America is experiencing rapid and unexpected change, and that its future looks much different than ever predicted. In...
Globalization and Uncertainty in Latin America gathers new scholarship on globalization and Latin America in an entertaining and well-researched volum...
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201,72 zł |
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African Women's Unique Vulnerabilities to Hiv/AIDS: Communication Perspectives and Promises
ISBN: 9781403984050 / Angielski / Twarda / 309 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is an in-depth look at the biomedical, socio-cultural, economic, legal and political, and educational vulnerabilities faced by the population that is most vulnerable to the risk of contracting HIV/AIDS: African women.
This is an in-depth look at the biomedical, socio-cultural, economic, legal and political, and educational vulnerabilities faced by the population tha...
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201,72 zł |
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Rethinking the Third World: International Development and World Politics
ISBN: 9781403995889 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A systematic reassessment, by two leading figures in the field, of the paradigm of international development in both theory and practice. It offers an overview and critique of development theory and strategy, and a new framework for the analysis of global inequality, poverty and development in an era of globalization.
A systematic reassessment, by two leading figures in the field, of the paradigm of international development in both theory and practice. It offers an...
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717,36 zł |
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Rethinking the Third World: International Development and World Politics
ISBN: 9781403995896 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A systematic reassessment, by two leading figures in the field, of the paradigm of international development in both theory and practice. It offers an overview and critique of development theory and strategy, and a new framework for the analysis of global inequality, poverty and development in an era of globalization.
A systematic reassessment, by two leading figures in the field, of the paradigm of international development in both theory and practice. It offers an...
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204,91 zł |
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Luxury and Rubble: Civility and Dispossession in the New Saigonvolume 32
ISBN: 9780520292512 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Luxury and Rubble is the tale of two cities in Ho Chi Minh City. It is the story of two planned, mixed-use residential and commercial developments that are changing the face of Vietnam's largest city. Since the early 1990s, such developments have been steadily reorganizing urban landscapes across the country. For many Vietnamese, they are a symbol of the country's emergence into global modernity and...
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program for monographs. Visit...
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146,03 zł |
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Savagery in Politics: The Hindrance to National Develpment: Faulty Political Practice as the Primary Cause of Failed Economic Development in
ISBN: 9781420881288 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Political practice on the platforms of political parties as a route to political power started in its present form in Nigeria during the last decade of the colonial era. With the twin formation of the Action Group of Nigeria AG and the Northern Peoples'' Congress NPC, events that made the new political parties rivals to the National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons NCNC, politics and political practice in Nigeria rapidly acquired the characteristics of parochialism on the basis of tribes, planned electoral rigging and fraud, corruption in government and the public service. These features...
Political practice on the platforms of political parties as a route to political power started in its present form in Nigeria during the last decade o...
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73,12 zł |
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Famine, Hunger and Starvation in Africa: Challenge To African and World Leaders
ISBN: 9781425928285 / Angielski / Miękka / 84 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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59,41 zł |
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A New Agenda For Ghana: Building a Nation on Vision and Ideas Volume One
ISBN: 9781425948283 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When I speak for Ghana, I speak for Africa. Corruption is endemic in African politics because of a colonial mentality. Only when these inherited attitudes are overturned will Ghana quit running in circles and move into her future. The neo-colonialists must be voted out, for all they care about is their own stomachs. In this book you'll find coverage of political and social subjects that make this sad fact very clear. Ghana is ready for leaders who identify with the people and envision progressive ideas that move us into the continent's glorious future. We look in these pages at that future...
When I speak for Ghana, I speak for Africa. Corruption is endemic in African politics because of a colonial mentality. Only when these inherited attit...
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85,06 zł |
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A New Agenda for Ghana: Building a Nation on Vision and Ideas Volume One
ISBN: 9781425948290 / Angielski / Twarda / 1 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When I speak for Ghana, I speak for Africa. Corruption is endemic in African politics because of a colonial mentality. Only when these inherited attitudes are overturned will Ghana quit running in circles and move into her future. The neo-colonialists must be voted out, for all they care about is their own stomachs. In this book you'll find coverage of political and social subjects that make this sad fact very clear. Ghana is ready for leaders who identify with the people and envision progressive ideas that move us into the continent's glorious future. We look in these pages at that future...
When I speak for Ghana, I speak for Africa. Corruption is endemic in African politics because of a colonial mentality. Only when these inherited attit...
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137,15 zł |
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