The New Conditionality: The Politics of Poverty Reduction Strategies

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This book presents detailed, field-level research on the application of Poverty Reduction Strategies (PRSs) in three countries: Tanzania, Vietnam and Honduras It describes the changing relations between the governments of these countries, donor agencies, and civic organizations that have taken part in formulating the new generation of PRSs. Poverty Reduction Strategies run up against a central paradox: in giving decisive policymaking powers to external agencies, the very process of drawing up development strategies to prioritise reducing poverty can gravely undermine the consolidation of democratic forces, structures and ideas in developing countries.

New International Poverty Reduction Strategies

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New International Poverty Reduction Strategies
J. Cling
Manufacturer: Routledge
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) launched a joint initiative at the end of 1999, stating that they intended to set the fight against poverty at the heart of their development policies. This book provides the expert, critical analysis of the poverty reduction strategies that is needed. Originally published in French and updated here for the first time in English, the book emphasises three main innovations brought about by focus on poverty reduction, participatory process implemented for policy-making and better coordination of official development assistance.
The contributions also show that there remains a large gap between the principles of the World Bank and IMF's strategies and their application. That this valuable and insightful book will be of great interest to students and lecturers involved in development economics goes almost without saying. What also needs to be understood is that the lessons and policy implications drawn from the book need to be read and acted upon by those involved with the World Bank and the IMF.

Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers [PRSPs] must mainstream gender.: An article from: Femnet News

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Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers [PRSPs] must mainstream gender.: An article from: Femnet News
Elaine Zuckerman
Manufacturer: African Women's Development and Communication Network (FEMNET)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B0008DSH9A
Release Date: 2005-07-31

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Title: Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers [PRSPs] must mainstream gender.
Author: Elaine Zuckerman
Publication: Femnet News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2002
Publisher: African Women's Development and Communication Network (FEMNET)
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New International Poverty Reduction Strategies
Jean-Pierre/ Razafindrakoto, Mireille Cling
Manufacturer: NY
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000N684WM

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Many excellent companies have fallen from grace, not because they ignored their customers or lacked superior management skills, but because business conditions shifted beneath them. In an environment of fluctuating markets, proliferating technologies, and changing political frontiers, the management challenge is no longer to manage only growth. Now managers must cope with breakpoints, or sudden shifts in the rules of the game. In this timely book, Paul Strebel provides the first coherent approach to dealing with radical business change. Strebel shows that breakpoints may be as enterprising as Drexel Burnham Lambert's promotion of the junk bond market--or as dramatic as its collapse. They may result from changes in industry conditions such as the emergence of new technologies or price wars. When business conditions shift, the formula for success inevitably changes. Yet managers have difficulty anticipating discontinuities and only rarely do they exploit them. The book presents a new way of managing different types of radical business change.

BREAKPOINTS: HOW MANAGERS EXPLOIT RADICAL BUSINESS CHANGE

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BREAKPOINTS: HOW MANAGERS EXPLOIT RADICAL BUSINESS CHANGE
Paul Strebel
Manufacturer: Boston, Ma: Harvard Business School Press, 1992
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Binding: Hardcover
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BREAKPOINTS: HOW MANAGERS EXPLOIT RADICAL BUSINESS CHANGE.
Paul. Strebel
Manufacturer: Boston, Harvard Business School Press, 1992. 262 pp., illus. Fine copy of first edition in dust jacket.
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ASIN: B000UDWZ4G

Breakpoints: How Managers Exploit Radical Change

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Breakpoints: How Managers Exploit Radical Change
Paul Strebel
Manufacturer: NY
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MUF8U0

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Why is it that most of us find baby animals irresistibly cute? Why do so many people fear even the sight of snakes? What prompts us to feed birds, to allow cats to roam around the house at will, to admire the lines of dogs and horses? Stephen Kellert and Edward Wilson, the prolific Harvard biologist, gather essays by various hands on these and other questions, and the result is a fascinating glimpse into our relations with other animals. Humans, Wilson writes, have an innate (or at least extremely ancient) connection to the natural world, and our continued divorce from it has led to the loss of not only "a vast intellectual legacy born of intimacy" with nature but also our very sanity. There is much to ponder in this timely book.

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"Biophilia" is the term coined by Edward O. Wilson to describe what he believes is our innate affinity for the natural world. In his landmark book Biophilia, he examined how our tendency to focus on life and lifelike processes might be a biologically based need, integral to our development as individuals and as a species. That idea has caught the imagination of diverse thinkers.

The Biophilia Hypothesis brings together the views of some of the most creative scientists of our time, each attempting to amplify and refine the concept of biophilia. The variety of perspectives - psychological, biological, cultural, symbolic, and aesthetic - frame the theoretical issues by presenting empirical evidence that supports or refutes the hypothesis. Numerous examples illustrate the idea that biophilia and its converse, biophobia, have a genetic component:

fear, and even full-blown phobias of snakes and spiders are quick to develop with very little negative reinforcement, while more threatening modern artifacts - knives, guns, automobiles - rarely elicit such a response
people find trees that are climbable and have a broad, umbrella-like canopy more attractive than trees without these characteristics
people would rather look at water, green vegetation, or flowers than built structures of glass and concrete

The biophilia hypothesis, if substantiated, provides a powerful argument for the conservation of biological diversity. More important, it implies serious consequences for our well-being as society becomes further estranged from the natural world. Relentless environmental destruction could have a significant impact on our quality of life, not just materially but psychologically and even spiritually.

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an able collection that needs updating.......2007-08-10

This book contains writings and research from several fields, their experts trying to confirm the hypothesis that human beings are naturally drawn to various manifestations of the natural world ("biophilia"). This hypothesis is important not because it can start a new religion or redeem the world, but because it balances more pessimistic views of human nature with the idea that we have a natural psychological connection to our fellow creatures. This in turn implies that we harm our own psyches to the extent we push other beings out of existence.

Don't expect any end-stage science from this book. The editors make it clear up front that these are tentative, exploratory, and sometimes speculative investigations. The amount of biophilia research funding remains quite small compared to environmental research on how to market things or brainwash customers. The studies herein go up to the 1990s, so it's time for another collection.

A chapter that puzzled me was written by Dorion Sagan and Lynn Margulis to argue that appeals to save the planet are grandiose. Granted; Joanna Macy has been making the point for decades that we are PART of the planet, not sitting high above it. At best we can participate in its self-healing from what humans have done to it. But the authors go beyond this to normalize what we have done to it, even suggesting that we could be making way for the next evolutionary experiment of Gaia. I hate to use the hard word "misanthropic," but dismissing global warming and mass extinctions with the suggestion that "the decline in species diversity may be balanced by an increase in technological diversity" is astounding. It is quite a contrast to the growing numbers of people who feel the pain of those disappearances and declines with agonizing urgency and sorrow. I'm concerned that it also supports the very passivity and hopelessness that deprive the public sphere of so much pro-environmental energy directed toward appreciating and encouraging Earth's self-healing complexity: a very different idealism from the heroic posture of the world-shaper.

Wonderful reading.......2001-10-03

This was recommended by a scientist-science teacher-friend and I was simply blown away by the implications. If this theory is correct, then it explains the human descent into madness brought on by increased development without thought.

Difficult but important.......1999-07-05

Human beings are deeply psychologically attached to nature and the sooner we realize that, the better off we'll be. Why are houseplants so popular? Why do so many children's books feature animals as main characters? Why do more Americans visit zoos than sporting events? Why are so many of us worried about rainforests we'll never see firsthand? Unlike the previous two reviewers, I hold that our ties with nature are deep and ancient. We can bury them under concrete but WE CAN'T CUT THEM. As a last word: most of the really happy people I know have a deep relationship with nature or something from nature, such as a pet.

This book is more postmodernism jibberish.......1999-05-29

In Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectual's Abuse of Science, postmodernists are taken to task for distorting physics and math through poetic license that says nothing and means nothing. Edward O. Wilson likewise has criticized postmodernists for their attacks on science and Western knowledge, and now we have the evolutionists stooping to the same distortions of logic and clear thinking in pursuit of personal agendas to resurrect a new religion of nature. In the book The Biophilia Hypothesis (henceforth BioHyp) we can clearly delineate between the evolutionary observations of our past and what it should mean to us today. This book merges evolutionary knowledge of our environment for survival, with an ethic of deep ecology that is as befuddling and lacking in coherence as anything I have previously seen written by those who claim to be on the side of neo-Darwinist empiricism. But we should all recognize that it is easy, even for true empiricists, to slip into quasi-religious cults even while appearing to embrace the principles of science. Since this book does not have any coherence, aside from making some rather bland connection between how humans interact with nature which I accept but fail to see as profound, I will take a few of the most egregiously inept statements in the book to pull the rug out from under their proposed paradigm.

This book tries to equate affiliation with nature with the essence of a good life that has meaning. Granted, many aspects of human nature go into the make-up of our beings, including: the need to create, observe nature, have sex, accumulate and show off our amassed wealth, dominance over others, athleticism, gathering and enjoying food, AND competition with other human groups including warfare and genocide. Yes, along with a love of nature humans also have a blood lust that these authors all know exists but fail to address in this book. Another quasi-religious group of scientists could easily conjure up a new natural paradigm based on warfare (perhaps like the Spartans) and be equally content with a new culture based on love of animals but hatred of other humans (perhaps the genophilia hypothesis?).

"The biophilia hypothesis necessarily involves a number of challenging, indeed daunting, assertions. Among these is the suggestion that the human inclination to affiliate with life and lifelike process is: 1) Inherent (that is, biologically based); 2) Part of our species' evolutionary heritage; 3) Associated with human competitive advantage and genetic fitness; 4) Likely to increase the possibility for achieving individual meaning and personal fulfillment; and 5) The self-interested basis for a human ethic of care and conservation of nature, most especially the diversity of life." [20]

Assertions 1,2 and 3 I have no problem with, they are simple evolutionary statements. However I take strong issue with 4 and 5. Lets rephrase 4: "[T]he inclination to affiliate with life . . . is [l]ikely to increase the possibility for achieving individual meaning and personal fulfillment." Let us merely rephrase it to read, "The inclination for humans to commit genocide is likely to increase the possibility for achieving individual meaning and personal fulfillment." I contend that genocide and group cohesiveness are in fact far more powerful emotions than our need of love for nature. And yet we have been able to subdue this emotion quite nicely by introducing incentives in cultures to forego blood-letting for other more valuable past times. Likewise, BioHyp may improve our urban environment by paying more attention to planting trees and providing for some bird sanctuaries, but I would contend that the average urban dweller is far more impacted by daily road rage than they are sensitive to the number of animals and fauna they observe on their journey to work. That is, hostility to other humans who may have offended me carry a much greater burden on my temperament than seeing a squirrel climb up the tree as I walk to my garage.

Assertion 5 above, in order to be true, must show that an extreme caring and conservation for nature, one that must reduce the average material wealth of humans while also reducing the number of humans, is of real benefit to humans: that is, it is a good in itself, to all humans! Does this hold for those who will not be born? For those who will die on the way to the emergency room because we have reverted back to bicycles or horse and buggies? Don't get me wrong. I am not an egalitarian that thinks "banning guns to save just one child is reason enough to give up our constitutional rights." Its just that no group or philosophy can make the above statement to simplistically and universally alter our national or humans agenda. They are calling for a ecological Jihad that is not warranted. Our culture cannot be cut from whole cloth based on such simplistic assertions. They are made up of a myriad of compromises and constraints that do not fall easily into any one fundamental of human nature as espoused in BioHyp.

Sorry, but the authors got it all backwards.......1998-10-09

The great biologist Edward O. Wilson noted that human beings seem to have some constants in what they like in the natural world. Everybody likes the landscape they grew up in, but there appears to be a surprising consensus, at least among men, in favor of landscape with these features: grassy parklands with intermittent trees, water, high points providing vistas across a complex landscape, and the ability to see but not be seen. Researchers believe that this represents an inborn affinity toward the superb hunting grounds in which humans evolved in East Africa. From this work, Wilson announced the existence of biophilia, the innate human love of nature, and asserted that this means we should Save the Rainforests (home to most of the species of Wilson's beloved ants).

As much as I admire Wilson, I have to point out that his political argument is absolutely not supported by this research, which demonstrates not that humans like all forms of nature but that they have strong opinions about which landscapes they prefer. Reread the description of the consensus pleasurable landscape: does it remind you of anything that modern humans all around the world spend billions upon? Yup, what we males really have an innate affinity for are golf courses. In fact, we probably have an innate aversion toward rainforests, with their snakes, bugs, and lack of sunlight. Humans have largely avoided rainforests throughout our history, and today rainforests are much more popular on the Upper West Side of Manhattan than in the Amazon.

None of this implies that we shouldn't Save The Rainforests

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The Biophilia Hypothesis. (book reviews): An article from: World Watch
Edward C. Wolf
Manufacturer: Worldwatch Institute
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B00092KZCW
Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from World Watch, published by Worldwatch Institute on July 1, 1994. The length of the article is 1237 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The Biophilia Hypothesis. (book reviews)
Author: Edward C. Wolf
Publication: World Watch (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 1994
Publisher: Worldwatch Institute
Volume: v7 Issue: n4 Page: p37(2)

Article Type: Book Review

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The Biophilia Hypothesis.(Brief Article): An article from: The Antioch Review

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The Biophilia Hypothesis.(Brief Article): An article from: The Antioch Review
Dorothea Bedigian
Manufacturer: Antioch Review, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from The Antioch Review, published by Antioch Review, Inc. on March 22, 1994. The length of the article is 396 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The Biophilia Hypothesis.(Brief Article)
Author: Dorothea Bedigian
Publication: The Antioch Review (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 1994
Publisher: Antioch Review, Inc.
Volume: v52 Issue: n2 Page: p361(1)

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Chemical Ecology: the sense God gave an ant.......2003-11-25

Chemical Ecology is a relatively new science that blends chemistry, biology and behavioral science in order to understand chemical interactions of things in nature. Agosta provides readers with a broad overview of chemistry in nature in a fascinating format that requires only interest in science to appreciate and only basic knowledge of chemistry and biology to understand. Like Agosta's recent book, Thieves, Decievers and Killers, this book strives to give a broad look at the world of chemical interaction. Unlike it, however, Chemical Communication offers a more technical approach utilizing many interesting diagrams, photos and drawings of chemical structures, while maintaining narrative like readability.

Pheromes - more than communication.......2000-11-26

Easy to read overview of pheromones, a variety of chemical molecules that help sperm cells find (ie, move in the direction of) egg cells, male animals find females and vice versa, as a signal for a male fish to deposit his sperm over recently released eggs, as an alarm signal for an entire group of animals, as a signal for a male hamster to mate with a female, as a territorial mark, etc, etc. This reference provides the general reader with some background in a variety of physiological and zoological areas. Although not fully explored, the existence of pheromone-guided actions, provides an effective mechanism for creatures, both ancient and modern, with limited nervous systems to exhibit a variety of complex behaviors.

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Camping in the Carolinas

The Best in Tent Camping: The Carolinas: A Guide for Car Campers Who Hate RV's, Concrete Slabs, and Loud Portable Stereos
Johnny Molloy
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The Best in Tent Camping: The Carolinas is the only guide to North and South Carolina specifically designed to help outdoor enthusiasts find the best sites to pitch their tent. Written to steer campers away from concrete slabs and convoys of RVs, The Best in Tent Camping: The Carolinas points tent campers to the most scenic and serene campsites in the Palmetto and Tar Heel State. From the Great Smoky Mountains to the sandy shores of coastal North Carolina, from South Carolina's Low Country to its peaceful mountains, there is something to suit nearly every campers' taste.
Painstakingly selected from hundreds of campgrounds, each campsite is rated for: beauty, noise, privacy, security, spaciousness, and cleanliness. In addition, each campground profile provides essential details on facilities, reservations, fees, and restrictions, as well as an accurate, easy-to-read map, making the campground a snap to locate.

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Camping in the Carolinas.......2004-05-15

Johnny Molloy had a dream assignment; to explore the campgrounds of North and South Carolina with his tent, vehicle and laptop. He came back with 55 campgrounds and created "a guide for car campers who hate RVs, concrete slabs, and loud portable stereos". The author writes with such enthusiasm and asks "have you ever been to the Outer Banks in fall, with a cool breeze and ward golden light spilling onto its sands?" He briefly discusses the area's history. Each campground is rated for beauty, noise, privacy, security, spaciousness, and cleanliness. He also talks about the active outdoor possibilities such as hiking, biking, canoeing or fishing in or close to the campground. A great guide to have for camping close to home

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English Language Learners With Special Education Needs: Identification, Assessment, and Instruction (Professional Practice Series (Center for Applied Linguistics), 2.)

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Great book.......2007-05-14

This book is great for research papers and for use in your classroom. The authors of this book have done a lot of research in the field. I would definitely recommend this book to ESL teachers, school administrators, gen. ed. teachers, and spec. ed teachers.

Awesome book!.......2004-12-31

This book does an excellent job of compiling reasearch and best practice from the past 30 years into a complete, concise guide for determining appropriate referrals of ELLs to SpEd! Highly recommended!

Excellent Resource! .......2004-11-18

If you are working with English Language Learners and wonder about special education services, this is the book for you. As an ESOL teacher, I can help special educators understand them better by sharing this book with them. I lent it to our school psychologist.

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Lavish and Beautiful.......2001-08-23

This book truly captures the spirit and ideology of what makes Italy so wonderful. Filled with pictures and articles, you will appreciate "La Dolce Vita" even more after you examine this work of art. Highly recommended.

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