SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries
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Manual of Practical Management for Third World Rural Development Associations
This comprehensive and simple guide will clarify management problems for those involved with non-governmental associations in developing countries. With numerous examples and annexes together with a glossary of unfamiliar technical terms.
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Manual of Practical Management for Third World Rural Development Associations
Written in a simple and direct style useful for training administrators of small groups or associations and those who manage development projects. Volume 2 of this guide covers all aspects of financing an association. The second volume looks at all aspects of financial management for small developme...
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Manual of Practical Management for Third World Rural Development Associations
This comprehensive and simple guide will clarify management problems for those involved with non-governmental associations in developing countries. With numerous examples and annexes together with a glossary of unfamiliar technical terms.
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The Market Panacea
This book compares the experiences of structural adjustment in developing countries and the transition from centrally planned to market economies in the former socialist countries. It aims to query whether the market-led approach which has characterized both Structural Adjustment Programmes in devel...
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Men and Masculinity
A collection of articles by development practitioners and theorists, which considers the implications of male gender identities on the rights of both women and men, and on gender-equitable development. Gender studies have often concentrated on the woman's role in the family, community and society. M...
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Microfinance and Poverty Reduction
The provision of credit and other financial services has become increasingly seen as the answer to the problems facing poor people. Microfinance interventions have the capacity to increase incomes, contribute to individual and household security, and change social relations for the better. However,...
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Mining on a Small and Medium Scale
Interest in small scale mining has been heightened in recent years due to the increasing concern on its environmental impacts. This book aims to delve into the many dimensions of small and medium scale mining and to take stock of the emerging issues. By and large, the contributions relate to issues...
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Miombo Ecology and Management
Miombo forest occurs in a swathe across central and southern Africa. Traditionally shifting cultivators have farmed in miombo, and allowed it to regenerate, but increasingly the demands for land and for fuelwood have resulted in deforestation. This book provides comprehensive details of the climate,...
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Mitigating the Millennium
Protection against future disasters is often squeezed out of both relief and development programmes; and although an increasing proportion of international aid is being spent on relief, few of these resources are allocated to disaster mitigation or preparedness. In addition most long-term developmen...
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Nature is Culture
The startling message of this book is that the so-called virgin forests of the world owe much to their symbiotic relationship with the indigenous peoples who live in and on the margins of the forests. Examples of forests are taken from Asia, Africa and South America, thus reflecting the global natur...