SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries
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Trapped
Globally, the illegal trade in humans is surpassed only by that in drugs and arms. This work explores some of the life stories behind this scandal and tragedy by looking at one of the regions where debt bondage is still common - the Brazilian Amazon. The author, a British journalist turned farmer in...
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Politics Transformed
Sue Branford, Bernardo Kucinski, Hilary Wainwright
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (Lula) became Latin America's first democratically elected socialist leaders since Salvador Allende on October 27, 2002. He achieved nearly 62 per cent of the vote, to become the first left-wing politician to win his country's presidency. But behind this victory for Lula an...
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Technologies de L'Information et de la Communication Pour le Developpment en Afrique
Technologies de LInformation et de la Communication Pour le Developpment en Afrique.
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Small is Beautiful
Oxford economist E. F. Schumacher provides an enlightening study of our economic system and its purpose, challenging the current state of excessive consumption in our society. Offering a crucial message for the modern world struggling to balance economic growth with the human costs of globalisation,...
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Spreading the Word Further: Guidelines for disseminating development research
Getting research findings out to those who stand to benefit from them is now widely recognised as a crucial aspect of any research project. This book is a product of the second phase of a DFID-funded KaR project that is aimed at increasing the impact of research through improved dissemination of the...
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Spreading the Word Further: Guidelines for Disseminating Development Research - Synthesis notes
Getting research findings out to those who stand to benefit from them is now widely recognised as a crucial aspect of any research project. This book is a product of the second phase of a DFID-funded KaR project that is aimed at increasing the impact of research through improved dissemination of the...
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Controlling and Preventing Disease
Improving health is one of the main goals of water and environmental sanitation (WES) interventions. Despite this, many aid and development workers may have only a limited knowledge of the infections they try to prevent. Although the relevant information does exist, it is often scattered in speciali...