Agrarian Change, Gender and Land Rights.(Book Review): An article from: The Canadian Geographer

Agrarian Change, Gender and Land Rights.(Book Review): An article from: The Canadian Geographer
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Agrarian Change, Gender and Land Rights.(Book Review): An article from: The Canadian Geographer
Belinda Dodson
Manufacturer: Canadian Association of Geographers
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Binding: Digital
ASIN: B000ALQBP2
Release Date: 2006-07-14

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This digital document is an article from The Canadian Geographer, published by Canadian Association of Geographers on March 22, 2005. The length of the article is 705 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: Agrarian Change, Gender and Land Rights.(Book Review)
Author: Belinda Dodson
Publication: The Canadian Geographer (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 2005
Publisher: Canadian Association of Geographers
Volume: 49 Issue: 1 Page: 110(2)

Article Type: Book Review

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Agrarian Change, Gender and Land Rights.(Book Review): An article from: The Geographical Journal

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Agrarian Change, Gender and Land Rights.(Book Review): An article from: The Geographical Journal
Alasdair Blair
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B000B9DOE4
Release Date: 2005-09-03

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This digital document is an article from The Geographical Journal, published by Thomson Gale on June 1, 2005. The length of the article is 432 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: Agrarian Change, Gender and Land Rights.(Book Review)
Author: Alasdair Blair
Publication: The Geographical Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 171 Issue: 2 Page: 179(1)

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Agrarian Change, Gender and Land Rights

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Binding: Paperback

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This collection of cutting-edge articles focuses on recent shifts in thinking about land rights, particularly as they relate to women. Leading feminist scholars in the field provide searching treatment of the long-neglected subject of gender and access to land.The articles are introduced and contextualized by Shahra Razavi. She weaves together the findings and arguments of contributions which look at the implications of the current neoliberal policy agenda for a number of specific regions. Topics covered range from policy discussions about women 's land rights in sub-Saharan Africa to land tenure reforms and women 's interests in Tanzania; and from new prospects with respect to gender and land rights in India, to agrarian reform to rural social movements and women 's land rights in Brazil.This is a timely collection, in which careful empirical analysis is presented with analytical power and clarity. The papers are provocative, refreshingly original and richly informative.

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Pathfinders unpacks the performance improvement models that can be best used to aid organizations in going beyond training and achieving the needed performance results. Part I introduces the context of the attention converging on performance improvement, and why. Part II presents the preeminent performance improvement models that have stood as solid foundations on which to research theory or practice applications. It also offers a metamodel that provides a common framework for these models and shows how they relate to interventions that can be used to improve performance. Part III presents an unprecedented collection of biographies and bibliographies that provide an overview of the dominant performance improvement models.

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Completely revised and updated, this comprehensive collection of multiple-choice questions reviews the clinical applications of human embryology and teratology. The manual is designed for use with Moore & Persuad's THE DEVELOPING HUMAN: CLINICALLY ORIENTED EMBRYOLOGY and BEFORE WE ARE BORN: ESSENTIALS OF EMBRYOLOGY AND BIRTH DEFECTS.

Study Guide and Review Manual of Human Embryology

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Study Guide and Review Manual of Human Embryology
Keith L. Moore
Manufacturer: Saunders
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ASIN: 072166475X

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Dongyang Woodcarvers.......2002-09-03

Economic anthropological study of a localized craft tradition. Dongyang wood carvers (but also carpenters and construction companies) have succeeded in esablishing a unique identity in national and international markets. It also helps us understand how the PRC's takeover and "socialization" of the woodcarvers' shops with their master-disciple traditions efectively destroyed the artistic autonomy of the craftsmen themselves.

Wonderfull.......1999-01-22

This is an excellent first hand portrayl of the the Dongyang County in China. Eugene Cooper, USC prof., spent 6 months in China studying the Dongyang County. This book is worth the money.

The Artisans and Entrepreneurs of Dongyang County: Economic Reform and Flexible Production in China.(Review) (book review): An article from: Pacific Affairs

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The Artisans and Entrepreneurs of Dongyang County: Economic Reform and Flexible Production in China.(Review) (book review): An article from: Pacific Affairs
Alan Smart
Manufacturer: University of British Columbia
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B0008J0H56
Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from Pacific Affairs, published by University of British Columbia on June 22, 2000. The length of the article is 515 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 Artisans and Entrepreneurs of Dongyang County: Economic Reform and Flexible Production in China.(Review) (book review)
Author: Alan Smart
Publication: Pacific Affairs (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 2000
Publisher: University of British Columbia
Volume: 73 Issue: 2 Page: 284

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This new 254-page CTR report provides a management analysis of the emerging webcasting and push technology markets. The report discusses how intranets and extranets are developing into E-commerce infrastructures and how they will benefit from webcasting and push technologies.

How Webcasting and Push Technology Differ

The amount of information available on the Internet is rapidly becoming unmanageable, and manually searching the Web is no longer a productive option.

CTR's new report, Webcasting and Push Technology Strategies: Effective Communications for Intranets and Extranets, discusses how webcasting and push technologies are being used to overcome information overload and provide new possibilities for intranets and extranets.

Webcasting, which is broadcasting over the Web using the Internet protocol (IP), significantly reduces the time required to locate specific information. This emerging technology uses narrowcasting principles to turn the Internet into a personal broadcasting system with individualized programming capabilities.

Push technologies such as PointCast involve the periodic transmission of flat information such as text and graphics. Push is passive from a user's perspective because once scheduled, the information arrives periodically without user intervention. To hear or watch a webcast, by contrast, users must actively tune-in to the Web page where the content is available.

Webcasting Tools, Techniques, and Applications This report assesses the latest webcasting development tools and provides key information on using these tools to implement intranet and extranet applications. The webcasting applications discussed include financial services, trading support systems, competitive intelligence, and multiuser conferencing.

The various forms of Internet data transmission are explored, including unicasting, broadcasting, multicasting, and narrowcasting. Webcasting alternatives such as pure push, selective pull, and distributed push/pull solutions are also detailed.

The report provides case studies of 24 companies that represent a selection of webcasting application categories, including software distribution, hardware support, financial services, and project management. Special attention is given to the recent webcasting ventures of Microsoft and Netscape.

Creating a Webcasting Business Strategy

Intranets and extranets are being used to capture the attention of key employees, business partners, and customers. Through webcasting, information such as company policies, new product introductions, and stock market updates can be broadcast to a specific audience. To fully utilize these technologies, however, companies must first develop an effective webcasting business strategy.

CTR's Webcasting and Push Technology Strategies: Effective Communications for Intranets and Extranets report provides specific suggestions for planning and operating a webcasting application. This advice applies to intranet and extranet implementation of push technology as well as the establishment of webcasting channels for marketing products and services on the Internet.

The report outlines specific choices that must be made with regard to push components, bandwidth availability, multimedia content, intrusiveness, and client software features. The revenue-creating potential and drawbacks of webcasting as a business undertaking are also detailed.

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The ability to continuously distribute information is imperative to the success of large organizations. Through webcasting, companies will be able to cut costs and function more efficiently by reducing the bandwidth and time required for employees, business partners, or customers to locate this information. The report will help information technology (IT) personnel do the following: develop a webcasting strategy, search for effective E-commerce solutions, choose and implement appropriate webcasting tools and applications, and understand the benefits of push technology.

Webcasting and Push Technology Strategies: Effective Communications for Intranets and Extranets provides the tools and information necessary to plan, implement, and maintain webcasting and push solutions for the enterprise.

The impact of proposed changes in bankruptcy administration: Prepared for the Commission on the Bankruptcy Laws of the United States (R-1315-COBL)
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The impact of proposed changes in bankruptcy administration: Prepared for the Commission on the Bankruptcy Laws of the United States (R-1315-COBL)
David Dreyfuss
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The Customer's Victory: From Corporation to Co-Operation
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Get ready for a surprise, a new look at organisations

The Customer's Victory: From Corporation to Co-Operation
Francois Dupuy
Manufacturer: Indiana University Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0253212898

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The Customer's Victory describes and analyses how managers need to understand organizations in order to effectively implement the changes necessary to operate in today's competitive environment.

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Get ready for a surprise, a new look at organisations.......1999-10-06

Dupuy has managed to shed a new light on organisations, away from the wires and boxes of the formal organisation to the actual activities of the people in the organisation. He describes how customers haved won from bureaucracies who have tried to specialise so that they would not have to face the customer or cooperate with other departments. Changing organisations requires careful listening to the players in the organisation; finding what is their problem to solve and what are strategies they adopt to reach that goal. Dupuy uses a sociological tool that can be applied directly in business. He writes in a humoristic way and does not suffer from the syndrom of needing way too many pages to get across the message. An easy read, funny, and surely a surprise even to those people who have read many business books.

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This book provides a comprehensive account and analysis of the plan for European monetary union contained in the Maastricht Treaty. The provisions of the treaty itself are examined, showing how they evolved, what must be done to implement them, and some of the problems they will pose. Kenen goes far beyond the treaty, however, to survey and adapt recent research by economists on the benefits and costs of monetary unions, the conduct of monetary policy, and the consequences of large public deficits and debts.

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Useful contribution to vital debate.......2001-05-17

Professor Peter Kenen is a leading US expert on international economic relations. In this excellent little book, he analyses the prospects for Economic and Monetary Union.

Firstly, he shows the difficulties that countries are having when their governments try to meet the criteria for Economic and Monetary Union. He points out that in 1994 none of the twelve European Community countries met all four criteria; Italy and Portugal met none of them. Six countries failed the inflation test; two had interest rates too high; ten had fiscal deficits too high, and eight had excessive public debts.

Since then, European Union economies have stagnated or shrunk, so they are even further from meeting the criteria. Four of the six countries with debt ratios above 75 per cent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 1993 ran bigger budget deficits in 1994 than in 1992, so they would have to make even bigger cuts in their deficits before they can start to cut their debt ratios.

The Governments are in a dilemma: they cannot cut their budget deficits quickly to the stipulated three per cent without depressing real economic activity. And the more they deflate their economies, the less popular support there is for Economic and Monetary Union. Professor Kenen sums up, "It is thus unlikely that a majority of EC countries will be ready for Stage Three in 1997, when a majority is required to set a starting date, and it may be hard to muster a majority in 1999 - although a majority is not needed then." Stage Three is supposed to start automatically in 1999!

Secondly, Kenen studies the likely results if Governments seriously try to meet the criteria. He cites Buiter et al, writing in Economic Policy: "Greece, Italy, Belgium and Ireland need serious fiscal retrenchment, but getting even halfway to the Maastricht debt targets ... involves dangerous fiscal overkill. A blatantly unrealistic debt target is unhelpful for these countries in designing effective fiscal programs." They write that the necessary scale of retrenchment would involve "the economics of the lunatic asylum."

Kenen also cites the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels, which says that "If the Maastricht targets are adhered to, something significant will have to give in terms of public expenditure in many EC countries, with social consequences which could be highly disruptive. Clawing back public deficits which are across the Community higher in GDP percentage terms than they have been at any moment since the EC was founded, at a time when more and more 'legitimate' demands are made on the public purse, looks increasingly like trying to run up a downward moving escalator."

Thirdly, Kenen looks at the costs of joining Economic and Monetary Union. He cites the economists Ghosh and Wolf who estimate that joining it would cost as much as 2.5 per cent of the European Union's total GDP. The European Union's own employment committee said that Economic and Monetary Union would destroy ten million jobs in the European Union.

Supporters of Economic and Monetary Union like to claim that it would curb the speculators, tame finance capital, and end financial crises. But what does Kenen conclude? "In the first years of Economic and Monetary Union, then, the G-7 countries may find it harder to agree on policies and strategies for exchange rate management, and Economic and Monetary Union may thus lead to exchange rate fluctuations wider than those seen since the Louvre Accord [of 1987]. That would be truly ironic. Economic and Monetary Union is meant to replace the EMS (European Monetary System), which emerged from the desire to create a zone of monetary stability in Europe. Yet the achievement of that goal may have the effect of producing greater exchange rate instability at the global level."

A single European currency would not end speculation. It would still be operating in the world of global speculative flows. A single currency would be the focus for speculation against the dollar and the yen, and a smaller number of currencies could generate even more rapid and destabilising speculative flows.

So, to sum up, Kenen's book shows us that Economic and Monetary Union would be extremely difficult and painful to achieve. It would mean savage cuts in public spending (an estimated £18 billion in Britain), a 2.5 per cent reduction in GDP, and greater exchange rate instability. The cuts in public spending would also increase unemployment, reduce wages and worsen our public services...

This is a handbook of Euro.......2000-08-10

EMU is the most important international economic event since the Bretton Woods Agreements of 1944.It will represent a further step in the process of economic integration within the European Union. The effects of the monetary union will be felt primarily in the Euro area participating countries. At the same time, Euro will affect international monetary system. Euro's taking its place among the major international currencies is going to be gradual. This process will be quite important for the countries those with the close economic relationships with the European Monetary Union member countries. This book is a must read for all interested in the Euro...

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The World Bank Atlas has always been provided with easy-to-read world maps, tables, and graphs highlighting key social, economic, and environmental data for 209 economies. This year's Atlas has been updated and improved with new material to better parallel World Development Indicators 1998
(WDI). Development themes featured in previous edition -- The People, The Economy, The Environment, and States and Markets -- can still be found in this year's Atlas. This 30th edition adds two new sections, Global Links and World View. Global Links, complete with a table, maps, and charts, matches
the last section of WDI. The front section of the Atlas contains texts and charts on the World View, which WDI also covers in tables, charts, and text.

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The text takes a business oriented approach with an emphasis on business enterprise as it operates in the international business environment. It includes text and edited case summaries.

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