This book examines the extent to which popular demands for democracy are both subverting and enriching the postcolonial order in Africa. It explores a wide range of... Læs mere
This book discusses various aspects of postindependence teacher education reforms in Namibia from the perspectives of different actors in the reform process: student teachers, teachers, teacher educators, ministry of education personnel, and external consultants.
This book summarizes some issues involved in developing a theory of decentralized resource allocation mechanism in infinite horizon economies. It constitutes a definitive account of cutting-edge research on a topic of continuing importance in price theory. .
This book is essentially the story of the fellahin of Medjerda—their experiences and understanding of their experiences with European... Læs mere
This book investigates how the socioeconomic development process is related to international migration. It focuses on migration to the United States from Mexico and other countries in the Western Hemisphere, in particular Central America and the Caribbean.
This book helps readers to understand the relationship between democracy and poverty in Chile. It suggests that a comprehensive... Læs mere
This book examines the burials in the context of the Ciudad community to gain some understanding of the nature of Hohokam social organization. It provides a contrast of the ideology of the Colonial and Sedentary periods and the ideology of the Classic Period.
This book is the result of long research, which started in early 1983 and aimed at examining Brazil's economic adjustment following the two oil shocks in the period between 1974 and 1981, before the so-called "debt crisis". .
This book describes and explains the long-term dynamics of Third World debt during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, focusing on the various specific historical patterns of foreign loans, financial crises, and debt settlements between 1820 and 1990.
This book considers the extent of the post-Communist monopoly problem as well as progress in de-monopolization, providing a complete, comparative picture of the development of competition policy in a broad cross section of formerly socialist countries.
The first bibliography of its kind, Demography and Empire offers a comprehensive survey of recent literature in Spanish and in English pertaining to the population history of colonial Central America.
This book examines the proposition that granting control over decision making to cities, states, or regions rather than to the federal government can result in more efficient energy planning. It discusses the relationship between decentralization and small-scale technologies.