Author: Valerio, Alexandria Publisher: The World Bank Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This Sourcebook aims to support efforts by countries to strengthen the role of the education sector in the prevention of HIV/AIDS. It was developed in response to numerous requests for a simple forum ...
Description: For our maiden edition, we have chosen to examine the relations between Africa and Arabia. We brought together professionals and authorities of different persuasions, and asked them to approach the th...
Description: In this issue we look at the quest to reform the United Nations Security Council, including Africa's position in that quest and pose a number fundamental questions: Is the will to reform the UN-SC th...
Description: In this edition we examine America's 'War on Terrorism' following the events of September 11 2001 in that country, and their aftermaths. The 'war' has been the dominant global rhetoric ever since that...
Description: The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People's Rights on Women's Rights is arguably one of Africa's most ground-breaking and progressive rights instruments for gender equality in Africa. ...
Author: Lushaba, Lwazi Siyabonga Publisher: Codesria Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book analyses the impact of the Western idea of 'modernity' on development and underdevelopment in Africa. It traces the genealogy of the Western idea of modernity from European Enlightenment con...
Description: 2005 saw a mass mobilisation around the world, calling for 'trade justice'. The campaigners were lobbying for the introduction and implementation of new world trade rules, ones that would work for all...
Author: Gotsadze, Tamar Publisher: The World Bank Format: Adobe PDF
Description: HIV/AIDS in Georgia is part of the World Bank Working Paper series. These papers are published to communicate the results of the Bank's ongoing research and to stimulate public discussion. This book ...
Author: Dixit, Avinash K. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: How can property rights be protected and contracts be enforced in countries where the rule of law is ineffective or absent? How can firms from advanced market economies do business in such circumstanc...
Author: Etuk, Emma Samuel Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Etuk has been indefatigable in his profound determination for African revolution as admonished not only in this piece but also in his other works." -Adams O. Adah, Founder of Impart Africa, author o...
Author: Konings, Piet Publisher: Langaa RPCIG Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Civil society and empowerment have become buzz words in neoliberal development discourse. Yet many unanswered questions remain on the actual nature and configuration assumed by civil society in specif...
Description: In this issue, we take on Nigeria, one of the embodiments of Africa's paradoxes - and hope. A country of some 130 million people, Nigeria is the sixth largest oil producer in the world, and has some ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Mkuki Na Nyota Publishers Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Poverty reduction has been a long-standing concern of all African countries since independence. This focus is also reflected in the policies of the international donor community, including the twin In...
Author: Verwey, Len Publisher: The Institute for Democracy in South Africa Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Effective and transparent government budgeting is vital to any democracy. In South Africa, massive poverty, inequality and unemployment remain, despite the successful political transformation, citizen...
Author: Kamrava, Mehran Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book is a completely revised edition of the popular first edition, "Politics & Society in the Third World," The author has bought the book in line with the major changes in global politics and so...
Author: Kamrava, Mehran Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book is a completely revised edition of the popular first edition, Politics & Society in the Third World. The author has bought the book in line with the major changes in global politics and soci...
Author: N/A Publisher: Sub-Saharan Publishers Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Millennium Development Goals address poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation, and discrimination against women, by the year 2015. In this volume scholars and policymakers ...
Author: Shivji, Issa, G. Publisher: Fahamu Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The distinguished scholar presents perspectives on the historical, political and philosophical contexts that govern the evolution and place of NGOs in Africa today.In two extensive essays, he argues t...
Author: Anderson, Leslie E. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Drawing on extensive field work in Nicaragua and Argentina, as well as public opinion and elite data, Leslie E. AndersonÃs Social Capital in Developing Democracies explores the contribution of social...
Author: World Bank Publisher: World Bank Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "The World Bank is in the initial stages of developing a new annual series of World Bank Country Briefs. Tanzania- the second report in the series - will be published in the winter of 2009. These shor...
Author: N/A Publisher: IGI Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Advancements in technological innovation and adoption impact modern organizations on an increasingly global level. There is now a continual need for research on recent developments and future consider...
Author: N/A Publisher: The Institute for Democracy in South Africa Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The book interrogates the relationship between democracy and development and how underdevelopment prevents citizens from participating in democracy. Section One is a collection of expertsà writing on...
Description: In this edition, we focus on China-Africa relations in what Chinese diplomats like to call the 'new period' - a euphemism for a period of its emergence as a great economic power. While many remain fix...
Author: Ngwane, Mwakimu George Publisher: Langaa RPCIG Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The book examines the creative industries of Cameroon and Africa and makes bold the cultural triumphant assertion that Africa is home to some of the most diverse cultural patrimony and the most versat...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In recent years the role of social capital - defined as the institutions and networks of relationships between people, and the associated norms and values - in programs of poverty alleviation and deve...
Author: Communist Party of China, CPC Publisher: MoraQuest Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Twelfth Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development of the People's Republic of China (2011-2015) was compiled on the basis of the Proposal of the Central Committee of the Communis...
Description: In this edition we are taking on one of the most intractable problems in the continent: wars and conflicts. Africa has a disproportionate share of global conflicts and wars. Some of the implications ...
Description: Who is an African? On the face of it, it seems such a simple, and even rhetorical question. Surely, everyone knows who is an African, it would seem. But not so simple if other qualifiers are added t...
Description: This textbook draws on academic theory, field research and policy developments to provide an overview of the connections between security and development, before, during and after conflict. Academics ...
Author: Beswick, Danielle / Jackson, Paul Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This textbook draws on academic theory, field research and policy developments to provide an overview of the connections between security and development, before, during and after conflict. Academics ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Information Science Reference Format: Adobe PDF
Description: E-Adoption and Technologies for Empowering Developing Countries: Global Advances reviews the impact technology has had on individuals and organizations whose access to media and resources is otherwise...
Author: Ziai, Aram Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Tackling issues surrounding post-development which is arguably one of the most significant debates in the field of north-south relations at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Contributors expl...
Author: N/A Publisher: Pambazuka Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This compilation of articles commemorates the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade and the 50th anniversary of Ghana's independence. Drawing on lessons from the slave trade, studies o...
Description: Despite greater efforts in reducing poverty since the early 1980s, poverty remains stubbornly high in many parts of the world. This collection argues that the mainstream perspectives on poverty and de...
Author: Hurtado, Osvaldo Publisher: Madison Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A case study of why Third World countries are still poor, the premise of this book is that while some progress has been made in transforming the political economy of Ecuador, certain behaviors, belief...
Author: Shivji, Issa G. / Shivij Issa, Publisher: Pambazuka Format: Adobe PDF
Description: 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 ...
