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  • 101
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    Bridging the gap between social and market rented housing in six European countries? (2009)
    Amsterdam : IOS Press | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
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    ISBN: 9781607505099 , 1607505096
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (306 pages) , Illustrations
    Series Statement: Housing and urban policy studies 33
    DDC: 306.36
    Abstract: The once clear demarcation of funding and roles of the social and market rental sectors seems to have become blurred in a number of European countries. Social renting is no longer provided only by non-profit organizations. This title conveys who provides what in rental housing, relevant government policies and outcomes achieved.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-301) and index
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  • 102
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    Aftermaths : exile, migration, and diaspora reconsidered (2009)
    New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
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    ISBN: 9780813545981 , 0813545986
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 254 pages)
    Series Statement: New directions in international studies
    DDC: 304.8
    RVK:
    MS 1560
    Keywords: Migration ; Exil ; Diaspora
    Abstract: Aftermaths offers compelling new ideas on exile, migration, and diaspora. Ten contributors-well-established scholars and promising new voices-working in different disciplines and drawing from diverse backgrounds present rich case studies from around the world. Seeking fresh perspectives on the movement of people and ideas, the essays take on a wide range of subjects such as the influence of religion upon diasporic consciousness, the conflict between the local and the transnational, the fate of historical tragedy in globalization, the reinvention of social bonds across migrations, and the agoni.
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  • 103
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    Singapore Perspectives 2009 : the Heart of the Matter (2009)
    Singapore : World Scientific | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
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    ISBN: 9789814282260 , 981428226X , 1282443100 , 9781282443105
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (130 pages)
    DDC: 306.095957
    Abstract: The Singapore Perspectives series is a yearly publication that provides critical analysis of emerging trends and issues Singapore faces in terms of social, economic and political development. It is a quick and essential reference for understanding the broad policy discussions that animate thought leaders, policy-makers and the public in the country during the immediate period or that are likely to do so in the short and medium term. In this volume, contributors take an in-depth look at four topics of pertinent interest to Singapore's mid- to long-term future and offer some radical ideas for Si.
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  • 104
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    Coverage measurement in the 2010 census (2009)
    Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
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    ISBN: 9780309128278 , 0309128277
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 161 pages) , Illustrations
    DDC: 304.60723 22
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-143)
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  • 105
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    The power of place : geography, destiny, and globalization's rough landscape (2009)
    New York, NY : Oxford University Press | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
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    ISBN: 0199710058 , 9780199710058 , 1281529400 , 9781281529404
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 280 pages) , color illustrations, color maps
    DDC: 304.2 22
    Keywords: Electronic book ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Preface. Acknowledgments. 1. Globals, Locals, and Mobals. 2. The Imperial Legacy of Language. 3. The Fateful Geography of Religion. 4. The Rough Topography of Human Health. 5. Geography of Jeopardy. 6. Places Open and Shut. 7. Same Place, Divergent Destinites. 8. Power and the City. 9. Promise and Peril in the Provinces. 10. Lowering the Barriers. Works Cited. Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
    URL: lizenzpflichtig
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  • 106
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    Genocides by the oppressed : subaltern genocide in theory and practice (2009)
    Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
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    ISBN: 9780253002976 , 0253002974 , 1282238221 , 9781282238220
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vi, 217 pages) , Illustrations
    DDC: 364.15/1
    RVK:
    LB 51000
    RVK:
    MD 8920
    Keywords: Geschichte 1680-2000 ; Minderheitenfrage ; Unterdrückung ; Völkermord ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: In the last two decades, the field of comparative genocide studies has produced an increasingly rich literature on the targeting of various groups for extermination and other atrocities, throughout history and around the contemporary world. However, the phenomenon of "genocides by the oppressed," that is, retributive genocidal actions carried out by subaltern actors, has received almost no attention. The prominence in such genocides of non-state actors, combined with the perceived moral ambiguities of ret.
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  • 107
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    Tribeswomen of Iran : weaving memories among Qashqa'i Nomads (2009)
    London [u.a.] : Tauris Academic Studies ; | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
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    ISBN: 9781441629104 , 1441629106 , 1845118324 , 9781845118327
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 269 pages, [8] pages of plates) , Illustrations (some color), maps
    Series Statement: International library of Iranian studies 15
    DDC: 955.004943
    RVK:
    LB 44365
    RVK:
    MS 3000
    Keywords: Kaschgai ; Stamm ; Frau ; Erlebnisbericht
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-262) and index , Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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  • 108
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    Remains of ritual : northern gods in a southern land (2009)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
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    ISBN: 9780226265063 , 0226265064
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 254 pages, [2] pages of plates) , Illustrations (some color), music
    Series Statement: Chicago studies in ethnomusicology
    DDC: 781.7/9683374
    RVK:
    LS 46724
    Keywords: Ewe ; Religion ; Musik
    Abstract: "Remains of Ritual, Steven M. Friedson's second book on musical experience in African ritual, focuses on the Brekete/Gorovodu religion of the Ewe people. Friedson presents a multifaceted understanding of religious practice through a historical and ethnographic study of one of the dominant ritual sites on the southern coast of Ghana: a medicine shrine whose origins lie in the northern region of the country. Each chapter of this fascinating book considers a different aspect of ritual life, demonstrating throughout that none of them can be conceived of separately from their musicality--in the Brekete world, music functions as ritual and ritual as music. Dance and possession, chanted calls to prayer, animal sacrifice, the sounds and movements of wake keeping, the play of the drums all come under Friedson's careful scrutiny, as does his own position and experience within this ritual-dominated society"--Provided by publisher.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-229) and index
    URL: http://chicago.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.7208/chicago/9780226265063.001.0001/upso-9780226265049
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  • 109
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    Encyclopedia of communication theory (2009)
    Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
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    ISBN: 9781452265797 , 1452265798 , 9781412959384 , 1412959381 , 1322307946 , 9781322307947
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (2 volumes)
    Series Statement: Gale virtual reference library
    DDC: 302.203
    Abstract: Provides students and researchers with a comprehensive overview of contemporary communication theory. Entries address topics related not only to paradigms, traditions, and schools, but also metatheory, methodology, inquiry, and applications and contexts.
    Note: Title from title screen (viewed Feb. 25, 2009) , Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 110
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    Advances in military sociology : essays in honor of Charles C. Moskos (2009)
    Bingley : Emerald Group Publ | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
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    ISBN: 9781848558915 , 1848558910
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxix, 433 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Contributions to conflict management, peace economics and development vol. 12A
    DDC: 355
    Abstract: "There could be no better homage to recently deceased sociologist Charles C. Moskos than dedicating to him this selection of the papers presented at RC01's international conference in Seoul (July 2008). It offers an up-to-date view of the panorama of social studies on armed forces and conflict resolution in a context of fast-moving change that renders many preceding theoretical previsions obsolete. Just to cite two aspects of this change, one can point first of all to how the presented studies move beyond the very concept of globalization, after which the conference had been named. It in fact emerged with clarity that the new dimensions of the context in which militaries and military policy must move are those of a constant, diffuse interaction of the 'local' and the 'global', so-called globalization. A second aspect, in the international area, is the shift towards a multipolar global order with the United States, the European Union, China, Russia, Latin America, Japan and India all manoeuvring for position, a shift that has significant consequences on military action as well." --Book Jacket.
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  • 111
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    Conflict of interests : children and guns in zones of instability : panel discussion at the United Nations, 15 July 2008, New York (2009)
    [New York] : United Nations | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
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    ISBN: 9789210543019 , 9210543017
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vi, 29 pages) , Illustrations, map
    Series Statement: UNODA occasional papers no. 14
    DDC: 303.6/6083
    Abstract: "Presents in edited form the panel discussion at the United Nations, New York, held on 15 July 2008, organized by the UNODA and the Office of the Special Representative for the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, in collaboration with the International Action Network on Small Arms and the Government of Belgium. Captures the introductions to the programme by Radhika Coomaraswamy, the special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, and Sergio Duarte, the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs. Contains the presentations made by Christiane Agboton Johnson on the work to retrain youth in the conflict-prone area of Casamance in Senegal and by Ananda Millard on the results of a research project on the impact of small arms borne by children in situations of conflict and peace."--Publisher's website.
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  • 112
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    Language and poverty (2009)
    Bristol, UK ; : Multilingual Matters | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
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    ISBN: 9781847691200 , 184769120X
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 225 pages) , Illustrations, maps
    Series Statement: Multilingual matters 141
    DDC: 306.44
    RVK:
    ES 110
    Keywords: Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: "This book explores the bidirectional relationship between language and poverty, from the perspectives of linguistics, language policy and planning, economics, anthropology, and sociology. On the one hand, poverty affects language survival; in modern times the fundamental determinants of language shift and language death are economic. On the other hand, the languages people speak, or don't speak, can influence their economic status in substantial ways, limiting or facilitating access to jobs and education and full participation in the functions of the society. The issues encompassed by the twin themes of the volume have assumed growing significance in an era of increasing globalization and accelerating change in economies, technologies and traditional social structures. They are of practical concern to people in a wide range of disciplines and professions, including politicians, educators, social workers, language planners, and others who work and live in multilingual contexts"--Book Jacket.
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    URL: Volltext
    URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis
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  • 113
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    Tradition des proverbes et des exempla dans l'Occident médiéval : colloque fribourgeois 2007 = Die Tradition der Sprichwörter und exempla im Mittelalter : Freiburger Colloquium 2007 (2009)
    Berlin : Walter de Gruyter | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
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    ISBN: 9783110217957 , 3110217953
    Language: French
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (336 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Scrinium Friburgense Bd. 24
    DDC: 398.9
    RVK:
    EC 7355
    Keywords: Geschichte 1100-1520 ; Sprichwort ; Exempel ; Exempla Congresses History and criticism ; Latin literature, Medieval and modern Congresses History and criticism ; Literature, Medieval Congresses History and criticism ; Proverbs, German Congresses History and criticism ; Proverbs, Romance Congresses History and criticism ; SOCIAL SCIENCE Folklore & Mythology ; Exempla ; Latin literature, Medieval and modern ; Literature, Medieval ; Proverbs, German ; Proverbs, Romance ; Konferenzschrift 2007 ; Conference papers and proceedings ; Criticism, interpretation, etc
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  • 114
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    Alterstopoi : das Wissen von der Lebensaltern in Literatur, Kunst und Theologie (2009)
    Berlin : Walter De Gruyter | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
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    ISBN: 9783110213560 , 3110213567
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vi, 346 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    DDC: 809/.93354
    RVK:
    EC 5410
    RVK:
    FB 4066
    RVK:
    LB 43860
    Keywords: Geschichte ; Lebensalter ; Literatur ; Age groups in literature Congresses ; Literature Congresses History and criticism ; Age groups in art Congresses ; Aging Congresses Religious aspects ; Aging in art ; Aging in literature ; TRAVEL Special Interest ; Literary ; LITERARY CRITICISM General ; Age groups in art ; Age groups in literature ; Aging in art ; Aging in literature ; Aging Religious aspects ; Literature ; Konferenzschrift 2008 ; Conference papers and proceedings ; Criticism, interpretation, etc
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  • 115
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    The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano (2009)
    [Auckland, N.Z.] : Floating Press | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
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    ISBN: 9781775416197 , 1775416194 , 1776510208 , 9781776510207
    Language: English
    DDC: 306.3/62092
    Note: Archived by the National Library of New Zealand , Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on June 28, 2011) , "First published in 1789"--T.p. verso , Hypertext links contained in the archived instances of this title are non-functional , Includes bibliographical references (p
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  • 116
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    Gesamtausgabe (2009)
    Berlin : Walter De Gruyter | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
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    ISBN: 9783110216394 , 3110216396
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxv, 687 pages)
    DDC: 306.09
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  • 117
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    Zhivago's children : the last Russian intelligentsia (2009)
    Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
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    ISBN: 9780674054837 , 0674054830
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (453 pages) , Illustrations
    DDC: 305.5/52094709045
    RVK:
    KK 1070
    RVK:
    MS 6960
    RVK:
    NQ 8294
    Keywords: Geschichte 1945-1985 ; Intellektueller ; Geistesleben ; Entstalinisierung ; Sowjetunion
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-436) and index
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  • 118
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    Marketing und Lebensqualitt : Zusammenhnge, Wechselwirkungen und Rckkopplungen (2009)
    Diplomica Verlag | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
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    ISBN: 9783836627870 , 3836627876
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (71 pages)
    DDC: 306.34
    Abstract: Dieses Buch bietet einen Einblick in die noch junge und ausbaufhige Lebensqualittsforschung im Bezug auf das Marketing. Die verschiedenen Angriffspunkte, Wechselwirkungen und Rckkopplungen zwischen der Lebensqualitt und dem Marketing werden aufgezeigt und erlutert. Verschiedene, umfangreiche Wertevorstellungen existieren in jeder Kultur. In westlichen Lndern standen lange Zeit materialistische Werte im Vordergrund. Diese wurden aber durch postmaterialistische, immaterielle Werte ergnzt, welche das Individuum, dessen Selbstverwirklichung und den Genuss des Lebens in den Mittelpunkt stell.
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  • 119
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    The rediscovered self : indigenous identity and cultural justice (2009)
    Montréal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
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    ISBN: 9780773576742 , 0773576746
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xix, 236 pages , Illustrations)
    Series Statement: McGill-Queen's native and northern series 56
    DDC: 323.1197/071
    RVK:
    LB 48605
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    LB 79000
    Keywords: Indigenes Volk ; Kulturelle Identität ; Kanada
    Abstract: In a series of thematically linked essays, Ronald Niezen discusses the ways new rights standards and networks of activist collaboration facilitate indigenous claims about culture, adding coherence to their histories, institutions, and group qualities. Drawing on historical, legal, and ethnographic material on aboriginal communities in northern Canada, Niezen illustrates the ways indigenous peoples worldwide are identifying and acting upon new opportunities to further their rights and identities. He shows how - within the constraints of state and international legal systems, activist lobbying strategies, and public ideas and expectations - indigenous leaders are working to overcome the injuries of imposed change, political exclusion, and loss of identity. Taken together, the essays provide a critical understanding of the ways in which people are seeking cultural justice while rearticulating and, at times, re-dignifying the collective self. The Rediscovered Selfshows how, through the processes and aims of justice, distinct ways of life begin to be expressed through new media, formal procedures, and transnational collaborations.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-226) and index , Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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  • 120
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    Zwischen beruflicher Unabhängigkeit und familiärer Verantwortung : Lebensplanung von jungen Frauen in Deutschland und Polen : eine vergleichende empirische Untersuchung (2009)
    Hamburg : Diplomica Verlag | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
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    ISBN: 9783836618632 , 383661863X
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (117 pages) , Illustrations
    DDC: 306.36
    Abstract: Europa wchst zusammen: rechtlich, politisch, wirtschaftlich - aber lebenskulturell?Das Verhltnis des wiedervereinigten Deutschlands zu dessen grßtem stlichen Nachbarland, Polen, war in den letzten Jahren, z. B. im Zusammenhang mit der so genannten "Osterweiterung" der EU, in vielerlei Hinsicht Gegenstand der ffentlichen Diskussion. Dabei wurden auch hufig Bilder und Stereotype reaktiviert, die der langen und ber weite Strecken auch schwierigen deutsch-polnischen Geschichte entstammen. Dieses Buch will aus Gender-Perspektive einen wissenschaftlichen Beitrag zur Aufklrung und zum wechsels.
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    Immigration and national identity : North African political movements in colonial and postcolonial France (2009)
    London [u.a.] : Tauris Academic Studies ; | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
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    ISBN: 9781441628916 , 1441628916
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 307 pages)
    Series Statement: International library of migration studies 4
    DDC: 305.8/92761044
    RVK:
    NQ 9420
    Keywords: Geschichte ; Kolonialismus ; Afrikaner ; Politische Bewegung ; Frankreich
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-292) and index , Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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  • 122
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    Aesop's fables (2009)
    [Auckland, N.Z.] : Floating Press | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
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    ISBN: 9781775411437 , 1775411435 , 9781775411437 , 1775411435
    Language: English , English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (281 pages)
    DDC: 398.24
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  • 123
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    Studies in symbolic interaction (2009)
    Bingley, UK : Emerald | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
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    ISBN: 9781848557857 , 184855785X
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 464 pages) , Illustrations
    DDC: 302.2/223
    Abstract: Part one of volume 33 of "Studies on Symbolic Interaction" contains seven outstanding contributions by leading symbolic interactionists in the 'Annual Blue Ribbon Papers Series' under the editorial leadership of Lonnie Athens. Part two, under the special issue editorship of Richard King, examines commodity racism: representation, racialization and resistance. Part three presents papers in the 'Annual Peter M. Hall Lecture Series' and Part four presents new interpretive works in the interactionist tradition. International in scope, the series draws upon the work of urban ethnographers, interpretive, constructionist, ethnomethodological, critical race, postcolonial, feminist, queer, and cultural studies traditions. The emphasis is on new thought and research. Essays which interrogate the intersections between biography, media, history, politics and culture are encouraged.
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    "You've changed" : sex reassignment and personal identity (2009)
    Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford University Press | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
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    ISBN: 9780199745029 , 0199745021 , 128227077X , 9781282270770
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 220 pages) , Illustrations
    Series Statement: Studies in feminist philosophy
    DDC: 306.76/8
    Abstract: Introduction, Laurie Shrage 1. Christine Overall: "Sex/Gender Transitions and Life-Changing Aspirations" 2. Georgia Warnke: "Transsexuality, and Contextual Identities" 3. Jacob Hale: "Tracing a Ghostly Memory in My Throat: Reflections on Ftm Feminist Voice and Agency" (previously published in Men Doing Feminism, Tom Digby, ed., Routledge 1998) 4. Naomi Zack: "Transsexuality and Daseia Y. Cavers-Huff" 5. Gayle Salamon: "The Sexual Schema: Transposition and Transgenderism in Phenomenology of Perception" 6. Talia Mae Bettcher: "Trans Identiti.
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  • 125
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    Studies in law, politics, and society (2009)
    Bingley : Emerald | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
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    ISBN: 9781849506977 , 1849506973
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 206 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 306.2
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  • 126
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    Bulletproof : afterlives of anticolonial prophecy in South Africa and beyond (2009)
    Chicago [u.a.] : University of Chicago Press | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
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    ISBN: 9780226893495 , 0226893499
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 311 pages)
    DDC: 968.04/5
    RVK:
    NP 6550
    RVK:
    LB 49585
    Keywords: Geschichte 1850-2000 ; Xhosa ; Antikolonialismus ; Chiliasmus ; Auswirkung
    Abstract: Taking the Xhosa cattle killing as her focus, Wenzel offers something paradoxical: a new, anti-canonical canon of South African writing. Concerned with historical and literary 'failures', this work is a reflection on the fragmentary and spectral nature of echoes, influences, and prophecies.
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    Work-Life-Balance zur Mitarbeiterbindung : Eine Strategie gegen den Fachkrftemangel (2009)
    Diplomica Verlag | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
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    ISBN: 9783836626897 , 3836626896
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (165 pages)
    DDC: 306.3
    Abstract: Vor dem Hintergrund einer alternden Gesellschaft und dem eines zuknftigen Mangels an Fach- und Fhrungskrften bei gleichzeitig steigendem Wettbewerbsdruck, lsst sich die zunehmende Relevanz der Mitarbeiterbindung nicht dementieren. Unternehmen sind gefordert, vorhandene Potentialtrger zu erkennen und langfristig zu binden, um konkurrenzfhig zu bleiben. Dieses Buch zeigt auf, welche Auswirkungen vernderte gesellschaftliche Rahmenbedingungen auf das zuknftige Erwerbspersonenpotential haben, wie Mitarbeiterbindung aus arbeits- und organisationspsychologischer Sicht zu wirken vermag und war.
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    Demographic yearbook : Annuaire démographique (2009)
    New York : United Nations | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
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    ISBN: 9789210547550 , 9210547551
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 739 pages) , (chiefly tables)
    Edition: 59th [ed.].
    DDC: 304.6
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    Tourism in Southeast Asia : challenges and new directions (2009)
    Copenhagen [u.a.] : NIAS ; | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
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    ISBN: 9788776945374 , 8776945375
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (358 pages) , Illustrations
    DDC: 338.479159
    RVK:
    LB 57400
    RVK:
    QQ 925
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    RR 50783
    Abstract: "'Tourism in Southeast Asia' provides an up-to-date exploration of the state of tourism development and associated issues in one of the world's most dynamic tourism destinations. The volume takes a close look at many of the challenges facing Southeast Asian tourism at a critical stage of transition and transformation and following a recent series of crises and disasters. Building on and advancing the path-breaking Tourism in South-East Asia, produced by the same editors in 1993, it adopts a multidisciplinary approach and includes contributions from some of the leading researchers on tourism in Southeast Asia, presenting a number of fresh perspectives."
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    Human Adaptability : an Introduction to Ecological Anthropology (2009)
    New York : Westview Press | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
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    ISBN: 9780786732531 , 0786732539
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (496 pages)
    DDC: 304.2
    RVK:
    RB 10579
    Abstract: "Designed to help students understand the multiple levels at which human populations respond to their surroundings, this essential text offers the most complete discussion of environmental, physiologic."...
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    Chinese folklore tales (2009)
    [Auckland, N.Z.] : Floating Press | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
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    ISBN: 9781775414001 , 1775414000
    Language: English
    DDC: 398.20951
    Note: Archived by the National Library of New Zealand , Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Jan. 07, 2009) , Hypertext links contained in the archived instances of this title are non-functional , "Originally published in 1910"--T.p. verso
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    Running a thousand miles for freedom : the escape of William and Ellen Craft from slavery (2009)
    [Auckland, N.Z.] : Floating Press | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
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    ISBN: 9781775415329 , 1775415325 , 9781775569336 , 1775569330
    Language: English
    DDC: 306.3/62092
    Note: Archived by the National Library of New Zealand , Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Sept. 13, 2010) , Hypertext links contained in the archived instances of this title are non-functional
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    Moving politics : emotion and act up's fight against AIDS (2009)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
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    ISBN: 9780226305318 , 0226305317
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 524 pages) , Illustrations
    DDC: 362.196/9792
    RVK:
    LB 42610
    RVK:
    MR 5600
    RVK:
    MS 6280
    Keywords: Aids ; Soziale Bewegung ; USA
    Abstract: "In the late 1980s, after a decade spent engaged in more routine interest-group politics, thousands of lesbians and gay men responded to the AIDS crisis by defiantly and dramatically taking to the streets. But by the early 1990s, the organization they founded, ACT UP, was no more --even as the AIDS epidemic raged on. Weaving together interviews with activists, extensive research, and reflections on the author's time as a member of the organization, Moving Politics is the first book to chronicle the rise and fall of ACT UP, highlighting a key factor in its trajectory: emotion. Surprisingly overlooked by many scholars of social movements, emotion, Gould argues, plays a fundamental role in political activism. From anger to hope, pride to shame, and solidarity to despair, feelings played a significant part in ACT UP's provocative style of protest, which included raucous demonstrations, die-ins, and other kinds of street theater. Detailing the movement's public triumphs and private setbacks, Moving Politics is the definitive account of ACT UP's origin, development, and decline as well as a searching look at the role of emotion in contentious politics"--Provided by publisher.
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    Sounding new media : immersion and embodiment in the arts and culture (2009)
    Berkeley : University of California Press | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
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    ISBN: 1282359967 , 9781282359963 , 9780520944848 , 0520944844
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 246 pages) , Illustrations
    DDC: 302.23
    Abstract: "Examines the long-neglected role of sound and audio in the development of a new media theory and practice, including new technologies and performance art events, with particular emphasis on embodiment, art, and technological interactions ... focusing on technologies that became available in the mid-twentieth century--electronics, imaging, and digital and computer processing.
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    Beyond democracy in Cambodia : political reconstruction in a post-conflict society (2009)
    Copenhagen : NIAS Press | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
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    ISBN: 9788776945770 , 8776945774
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 320 pages)
    Series Statement: Democracy in Asia series no. 12
    DDC: 320.959609051
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    LB 49410
    Abstract: This is the first in-depth study to assess the post-conflict democratization process in Cambodia in a systematic, empirical way.
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    Anthropology : a student's guide to theory and method (2009)
    Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
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    ISBN: 9781442697362 , 1442697369
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 301 pages)
    Edition: 2nd ed.
    DDC: 301.01
    Abstract: The second edition of Anthropology adds important new material on questions of culture versus power, Max Weber's thought, the potential of applied anthropology, and the rise of public anthropology, while briefly touching on the anthropology of globalization.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-294) and index
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    The foundations of rock : from "Blue suede shoes" to "Suite : Judy blue eyes" (2009)
    Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford University Press | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
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    ISBN: 9780199718702 , 0199718709
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 425 pages) , Illustrations
    DDC: 781.66/09046
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    Keywords: Rockmusik
    Abstract: Preface; Acknowledgements; Note on Website; List of Text's Figures, Tables, and Photographs. 1. Drums, Other Percussion, and a Bit About Rhythm. 2. Guitars, the Bass, and an Introduction to Harmony. n3. Keyboards and a Summary of Early-Rock. 5. Vocal Color, Technique, and Arrangement. 6. Forms: Phrases and Sections. 7. Melody: Materials and Patterns. 8. Chord Construction. 9. Diatonic Harmonic Function. 10. Harmony in Minor and Other Non-Major Modes. 11. Chromatic Harmony. 12. Musical Time: Rhythm, Meter and Tempo. 13. Engineering the Master. 14. Creating an Interpretation. Appendix: Lexicon o.
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    The Alexandrian riots of 38 C : a historical reconstruction (2009)
    Leiden [u.a.] : Brill | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
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    ISBN: 9789047441915 , 9047441915 , 1282603086 , 9781282603080
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 336 pages) , map
    Series Statement: Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism v. 135
    DDC: 305.892/4032
    RVK:
    NH 8014
    RVK:
    BC 7500
    RVK:
    BD 9060
    RVK:
    NY 4500
    Keywords: Geschichte 38 ; Judenverfolgung ; Unruhen ; Alexandria
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    African women's report : experiences and lessons from the African Gender and Development Index (2009)
    Addis Ababa, Ethiopia : United Nations Economic Commission for Africa | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
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    ISBN: 9789210543620 , 9210543629
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxiv, 234 pages) , Illustrations
    DDC: 305.42096
    Abstract: This publication is based on the results of piloting the African Gender and Development Index (AGDI) in 12 African countries across the five subregions of the continent. Making a case for countries to invest in sex disaggregated data collection, the outcomes provide an indication of the general situation of women across the continent. The result of the AGDI trials demonstrate that countries have shown commitment to international, regional and subregional treaties affecting women through overwhelming ratification. The report confirms existing MDG status reports which indicate remarkable progress being made with respect to MDG2 on universal Access to Basic Education. With the aid of systematic collection of sex aggregated data, the report calls for enhanced commitment towards accelerated implementation of gender equality as outlined in frameworks such as the ICPD+15, Beijing+15, the Convention of the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women and the African Women's Protocol.--Publisher's description.
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    Violence and belonging : land, love and lethal conflict in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan (2009)
    Copenhagen, Denmark : NIAS | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
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    ISBN: 9788776945558 , 8776945553
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxviii, 224 pages) , Illustrations, maps
    Series Statement: Monograph series / NIAS 115
    DDC: 305.800954912
    Note: "With a foreword by Fredrik Barth"--Cover , Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-218) and index , Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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    Divine discontent : the religious imagination of W.E.B. Du Bois (2009)
    Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford University Press | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
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    ISBN: 9780199736607 , 019973660X
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vi, 183 pages)
    DDC: 303.48/4092
    Keywords: Du Bois, William E. B.
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    Caribbean without borders : literature, language and culture (2009)
    Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
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    ISBN: 1443803138 , 9781443803137
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 245 pages)
    DDC: 306/.09729 22 22 22
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    Dying, assisted death and mourning (2009)
    Amsterdam [u.a.] : Rodopi | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
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    ISBN: 9781441616999 , 1441616993 , 9789042028807 , 9042028807
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 170 pages)
    Series Statement: At the interface/probing the boundaries. Making sense of dying and death v. 58
    DDC: 306.9
    Keywords: Sterben ; Tötung auf Verlangen ; Tod ; Trauer ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Dying and death are topics of deep humane concern for many people in a variety of circumstances and contexts. However, they are not discussed to any great extent or with sufficient focus in order to gain knowledge and understanding of their major features and aspects. The present volume is an attempt to bridge the undesirable gap between what should be known and understood about dying and death and what is easily accessible. Included in the present volume are chapters arranged in three sections. First, there are chapters on aspects of dying, written by people who have professional experience and.
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    An introduction to the human development and capability approach : freedom and agency (2009)
    Sterling, Va. [u.a.] : Earthscan ; | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
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    ISBN: 9781552504703 , 1552504700
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 354 pages) , Illustrations
    DDC: 302
    RVK:
    MR 6700
    Keywords: Verhalten ; Sozialpsychologie
    Abstract: "Aimed at undergraduates and postgraduates in the social sciences, as well as development practitioners, this textbook provides an introduction to the human development and capability approach; it also clarifies key concepts and fosters debate on a number of critical issues. The book offers new perspectives on a wide range of topics, which include the conceptualization and measurement of well-being and inequality; the role of markets and economic growth in promoting development; the importance of democracy and public debate; culture and religion; health; equality and justice; and the connections between social and economic policy in addressing poverty and inequality."--Jacket.
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    Almighty God created the races : Christianity, interracial marriage, & American law (2009)
    Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
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    ISBN: 9780807899229 , 0807899224 , 9781469604602 , 1469604604 , 0807833185 , 9780807833186
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 271 pages)
    DDC: 346.7301/6
    RVK:
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1860-1960 ; Eheschließungsrecht ; Interethnische Ehe ; Protestantismus ; Katholizismus ; USA
    Abstract: Botham argues that divergent Catholic and Protestant theologies of marriage and race, reinforced by regional differences between the West and the South, shaped the two pivotal cases that frame this volume, the 1948 California Supreme Court case of Perez v. Lippold (which successfully challenged California's antimiscegenation statutes on the grounds of religious freedom) and the 1967 U.S. Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia (which declared legal bans on interracial marriage unconstitutional). Botham contends that the white southern Protestant notion that God "dispersed" the races, as opposed to the American Catholic emphasis on human unity and common origins, points to ways that religion influenced the course of litigation and illuminates the religious bases for Christian racist and antiracist movements. --from publisher description.
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    Handbuch des Antisemitismus : Judenfeindschaft in Geschichte und Gegenwart (2009)
    Berlin : De Gruyter/Saur | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
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    ISBN: 9783598441592 , 3598441592
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 934 pages)
    DDC: 305.8924
    Abstract: The Handbuch des Antisemitismus (Handbook of Anti-Semitism) compiles existing knowledge on the phenomenon of Judaeophobia throughout the ages and across the world. The second volume contains more than 650 biographies from the late classical period up to the present day: It presents not only Anti-Semites and prominent victims, but also pioneers of the enlightenment. The spectrum reaches from Pope Leo the Great, Martin Luther and Richard Wagner, to David Irving, Richard Williamson and Mahmud Ahmadineschad.
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    Negotiating paradise : U.S. tourism and empire in twentieth-century Latin America (2009)
    Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
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    ISBN: 0807898635 , 9780807898635 , 9781469605531 , 1469605538 , 080783288X , 9780807832882 , 0807859044 , 9780807859049
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 327 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 303.48/280730904
    Abstract: In his examination of interwar Mexico, early Cold War Cuba, and Puerto Rico during the Alliance for Progress, Merrill demonstrates how tourists and the international travel industry facilitated the expansion of U.S. consumer and cultural power in Latin America. He also shows the many ways in which local service workers, labor unions, business interests, and host governments vied to manage the Yankee invasion. Highlighting the everyday realities of U.S. empire in ways often overlooked, Merrill's analysis provides historical context for understanding the contemporary debate over the costs and be.
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    Violence : six sideways reflections (2009)
    London : Profile Books | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
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    ISBN: 9781847653239
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (218 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Big ideas
    DDC: 303.6
    RVK:
    CC 7700
    RVK:
    CI 7750
    Keywords: Gewalt ; Philosophie ; Gewalttätigkeit ; Kulturphilosophie
    Abstract: Zizek argues that the physical violence we see is often generated by the systemic violence that sustains our political and economic systems. With the help of eminent philosophers like Marx, Engel and Lacan, as well as frequent references to popular culture, he examines the real causes of violent outbreaks like those seen in Israel and Palestine and in terrorist acts around the world. Ultimately, he warns, doing nothing is often the most violent course of action we can take.
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    Transforming displaced women in Sudan : politics and the body in a squatter settlement (2009)
    Chicago, IL : University of Chicago Press | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
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    ISBN: 9780226002019 , 0226002012 , 6612239344 , 9786612239342
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 183 pages, [10] pages of plates) , Illustrations
    DDC: 305.4/896914
    Keywords: Frau ; Displaced Person ; Sozialanthropologie ; Squattersiedlung ; Sudan ; Khartum
    Abstract: Over twenty years of civil war in predominantly Christian Southern Sudan has forced countless people from their homes. Transforming Displaced Women in Sudan examines the lives of women who have forged a new community in a shantytown on the outskirts of Khartoum, the largely Muslim, heavily Arabized capital in the north of the country. Sudanese-born anthropologist Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf delivers a rich ethnography of this squatter settlement based on personal interviews with displaced women and careful observation of the various strategies they adopt to reconstruct their lives and.
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    Retail anarchy : a radical shopper's adventures in consumption (2009)
    Philadelphia, Pa. : Running Press | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
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    ISBN: 9780786746392 , 0786746394
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (216 pages)
    DDC: 306.3
    Abstract: A Rallying Cry for Reclaiming Consumer Power!...
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    Pacific perspectives on the commercial sexual exploitation and sexual abuse of children and youth (2009)
    [New York?] : United Nations ESCAP | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
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    ISBN: 9781441623850 , 144162385X
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (120 pages)
    Series Statement: United Nations publication sales no. E.08. II. F.19
    DDC: 306.74/50996
    Note: "This manuscript has been prepared by the Social Development Division of the ESCAP secretariat."--Page ii , "United Nations publication sales no. E.08. II. F.19 , Includes bibliographical references
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    Culture and explosion (2009)
    Berlin [u.a.] : M. de Gruyter | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
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    ISBN: 311021847X , 9783110218473
    Language: English , English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxxix, 195 pages) , Illustrations
    Series Statement: Semiotics, communication and cognition 1
    Uniform Title: Kulʹtura i vzryv.
    DDC: 302.2
    RVK:
    ER 735
    RVK:
    KH 1040
    Keywords: Geschichte ; Kultursemiotik ; Russisch ; Literatur ; Literatursemiotik
    Abstract: Culture and Explosion is the English translation of the final book written by legendary semiotician Juri Lotman. The volume demonstrates, with copious examples, how culture influences the way that humans experience "reality". Lotman's renowned erudition is showcased in a host of well-chosen illustrations from history, literature, art and right across the humanities. Now appearing in English for the very first time, the volume is made accessible to students and researchers in semiotics, cultural/literary studies and Russian studies worldwide, as well as anyone with an interest in unde.
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    The dark Sahara : America's war on terror in Africa (2009)
    London [u.a.] : Pluto Press | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
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    ISBN: 9781849642828 , 1849642826
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 278 pages) , maps
    DDC: 964
    RVK:
    LB 51465
    RVK:
    ML 6300
    Keywords: Geschichte 2003-2009 ; Terrorismus ; Bekämpfung ; USA ; Algerien ; Afrika
    Abstract: The US is keen to build a substantial military presence in Africa, citing the need to combat the growth of Al-Qaeda in Somalia, Algeria and other countries on the continent. This book reveals the secret US agenda behind the war on terror.
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    Corporate Events : Ein Erfolgsinstrument des Eventmarketings (2009)
    Diplomica Verlag | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
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    ISBN: 9783836620031 , 3836620030
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (184 pages)
    DDC: 394.2/068
    Keywords: Event-Marketing ; Unternehmen ; Kommunikation
    Abstract: In der heutigen Zeit sind immer mehr Unternehmen dem stndigen Wandel innerhalb der Gesellschaft und der Mrkte ausgesetzt. Die zunehmende Erlebnisorientierung der Verbraucher sowie deren stndige Einstellungs-, Erwartungs- und Bedrfnisnderung, die objektive Angleichung von Waren und Dienstleistungen, der Effizienzverlust klassischer Kommunikationsinstrumente sowie die permanent steigende Informationsberflutung zwingen Unternehmen zur berarbeitung ihrer Unternehmenskommunikation. Reine Informationsvermittlung von Unternehmensbotschaften sowie Produkten reicht nicht mehr aus. Es mssen psyc.
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    Transfer und Konservierung von Erfahrungswissen in Unternehmen (2009)
    Hamburg : Diplomica Verlag | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
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    ISBN: 9783868153798 , 3868153799
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (115 pages)
    DDC: 305.5
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    QP 345
    Keywords: Unternehmen ; Mitarbeiter ; Implizites Wissen ; Wissensmanagement
    Abstract: Implizites Wissen befasst sich weniger mit den Fakten als den Prozessen, welche meist nur durch Zeigen und Beobachten vermittelt werden knnen. Das implizite Wissen wchst aus der Erfahrung heraus und ist meist unbewusst in jedem Einzelnen vorhanden. Es kann nicht kodifiziert und etwa durch bergabeprotokolle, E-Mails, Wikis oder im Intranet bertragen werden. Dies ist ein herausragendes Merkmal, das einzelne Mitarbeiter fr Firmen so wertvoll macht. Schließlich hat dieses Erfahrungs-wissen entscheidenden Einfluss auf die Bildung erfolgskritischer Kompetenzen eines Unternehmens. Aber wie kan.
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    Contemporary Asian modernities : transnationality, interculturality, and hybridity (2009)
    New York : Peter Lang | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
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    ISBN: 9783035100358 , 3035100357
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (318 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Worlds of East Asia Bd. 16
    DDC: 305.80095
    Abstract: "This book is a collection of selected essays presented at the International Symposium on 'Contemporary Asian Modernities: Transnationality, Interculturality and Hybridity' hosted by the Humanities Programme of Hong Kong Baptist University in September 2006. As 'modernity' has been used to describe the cultural, economic and socio-political conditions in the Western worlds, the time in which we now live and the Asian countries where capitalistic transformation is extensively carried out are already articulating their own descriptions. The essays collected here discuss the notions of 'contemporary', 'Asia' and 'modernities' as they relate to the global trend of adopting capitalism. They probe into questions related to modernity as well as global modernity, ranging from China in particular to Asia in general. As reflected in the pluriversal meanings in the title, the book endeavours to make critical inquiries into the concept of modernity/modernities from different perspectives."--Publisher's description.
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    History of everyday life in Scotland, 1800 to 1900 (2009)
    Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
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    ISBN: 9780748629534 , 074862953X
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 328 pages) , Illustrations, maps
    Series Statement: A history of everyday life in Scotland v. 3
    DDC: 306.0941109034
    Abstract: This series demonstrates how everyday routines and behaviours can open a window into the social, economic and cultural lives of ordinary Scots Each volume examines common topics such as landscape, homes, objects, rituals, beliefs, work and leisure patterns, conflict and communication Across the series there are some striking continuities and remarkable changes in aspects of Scottish everyday life, while the everyday is shown to be shaped by national and regional surroundings, and varied between urban and rural, highland lowland settings. Based on the collective research of a large team of established and younger scholars, this series presents an entirely new way of looking at Scotland's past --...
    Abstract: Accounts of nineteenth-century Scotland have been preoccupied with the impact of change, unprecedented in its pace and extent. Through the shock of industrialisation and its close cousin urbanisation, society evolved from small scale and personal to larger scale, dense and urban, in the process transforming all aspects of the everyday. --...
    Abstract: The chapters in this volume examine the lives of the Scottish people under the changes and continuities that enveloped the nineteenth century. Some of the most visible transformations were reflected in the Scottish landscape and in the work and culture found in urban areas. Locality and community were revitalised in new customs and ceremonies. The printed word brought insight into society at home and at a distance. Rural Scotland adjusted to changes in farming practice and the traumas of population loss and began to look to the opportunities presented by recreation and tourism. With new interpretations from some of Scotland's most respected historians, this collection makes essential reading for anyone looking to understand the everyday lives of the Scottish people in this most dynamic century. --Book Jacket.
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    Are all the sacred cows dead? : Implications of the financial crisis for macro and financial policies (2009)
    [Washington, D.C] : World Bank
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    Pages: Online-Ressource
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 4807
    Parallel Title: Demirgüç-Kunt, Aslı Are all the sacred cows dead?
    Keywords: Economic policy ; Financial crises ; Economic policy ; Financial crises
    Abstract: "The recent global financial crisis has shaken the confidence of developed and developing countries alike in the very blueprint of financial and macro policies that underlie the western capitalist systems. In an effort to contain the crisis from spreading, the authorities in the US and many European governments have taken unprecedented steps of providing extensive liquidity, giving assurances to bank depositors and creditors that include blanket guarantees, and structuring bail-out programs that include taking large ownership stakes in financial institutions, in addition to establishing programs for direct provision of credit to non-financial institutions. Emphasizing the importance of incentives and tensions between short term and longer term policy responses to crisis management, this paper draws on a large body of research evidence and country experiences to discuss the implications of the current crisis for financial and macroeconomic policies going forward. "--World Bank web site
    Note: Includes bibliographical references , Title from PDF file as viewed on 5/8/2009 , Also available in print.
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-4807
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    Leveling the intra-household playing field : compensation and specialization in child labor allocation (2009)
    [Washington, D.C] : World Bank
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 4822
    Parallel Title: V. Del Carpio, Ximena Leveling the intra-household playing field
    Keywords: Child labor ; Transfer payments ; Child labor ; Transfer payments
    Abstract: "This paper analyzes changes in the allocation of child labor within the household in reaction to exogenous shocks created by a social program in Nicaragua. The paper shows that households that randomly received a conditional cash transfer compensated for some of the intra-household differences, as they reduced child labor more for older boys who used to work more and for boys who were further behind in school. The results also show that households that randomly received a productive investment grant, in addition to the basic conditional cash transfer benefits, both targeted at women, show an increased specialization of older girls in nonagricultural and domestic work, but no overall increase in girls' child labor. The findings suggest that time allocation and specialization patterns in child labor within the household are important factors to understand the impact of a social program. "--World Bank web site
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    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-4822
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    North-south trade-related technology diffusion, brain drain and productivity growth : are small states different? (2009)
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 4828
    Parallel Title: Schiff, Maurice W North-south trade-related technology diffusion, brain drain and productivity growth
    Keywords: Brain drain ; Diffusion of innovations ; Industrial productivity ; Brain drain ; Diffusion of innovations ; Industrial productivity
    Abstract: "The economies of small developing states tend to be more fragile than those of large ones. This paper examines this issue in a dynamic context by focusing on the impact of the brain drain on North-South trade-related technology diffusion and total factor productivity growth in small and large states in the South. There are three main findings. First, productivity growth increases with North-South trade-related technology diffusion and education and the interaction between the two, and decreases with the brain drain. Second, the impact of North-South trade-related technology diffusion, education, and their interaction on productivity growth in small states is more than three times that for large countries, with the negative impact of the brain drain thus more than three times greater in small than in large states. And third, the greater loss in productivity growth in small states has two brain drain-related causes: a substantially greater sensitivity of productivity growth to the brain drain, and brain drain levels that are more than five times greater in small than in large states. "--World Bank web site
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    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-4828
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    Wealth : crucial but not sufficient evidence from Pakistan on economic growth, child labor, and schooling (2009)
    [Washington, D.C] : World Bank
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 4831
    Parallel Title: Hou, Xiaohui Wealth
    Keywords: Child labor ; Education ; Wealth ; Child labor ; Education ; Wealth
    Abstract: "The relationship between wealth and child labor has been widely examined. This paper uses three rounds of time-series, cross-sectional data to examine the relationship between wealth and child labor and schooling. The paper finds that wealth is crucial in determining a child's activities, but that this factor is far from being a sufficient condition to enroll a child in school. This is particularly the case for rural girls. Nonparametric analysis shows a universal increase in school enrollment for rural girls from 1998 to 2006. This increase is independent of wealth (measured by per capita expenditure). Multinomial logit regression further shows that wealth is insignificant in determining rural girls' activity decisions. Thus, interventions to increase school enrollment should incorporate broad-targeted, demand-side interventions as well as supply-side interventions. "--World Bank web site
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    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-4831
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    Foreign informational lobbying can enhance tourism : evidence from the Caribbean (2009)
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 4834
    Parallel Title: Gawande, Kishore S Foreign informational lobbying can enhance tourism
    Keywords: Lobbying ; Lobbying ; Tourism ; Lobbying ; Lobbying ; Tourism
    Abstract: "There exist legal channels for informational lobbying of U.S. policymakers by foreign principals. Foreign governments and private sector principals frequently and intensively use this institutional channel to lobby on trade and tourism issues. This paper empirically studies whether such lobbying effectively achieves its goal of trade promotion in the context of Caribbean tourism, and suggests the potential for using foreign lobbying as a vehicle for development. Panel data are used to explore and quantify the association between foreign lobbying by Caribbean principals and U.S. tourist arrivals to Caribbean destinations. A variety of sensitivity analyses support the finding of a strong association. The policy implications are obvious and potentially important for developing countries. "--World Bank web site
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    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-4834
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    Bank activity and funding strategies : the impact on risk and returns (2009)
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 4837
    Parallel Title: Demirgüç-Kunt, Aslı Bank activity and funding strategies
    Keywords: Banks and banking ; Financial crises ; Banks and banking ; Financial crises
    Abstract: "This paper examines the implications of bank activity and short-term funding strategies for bank risk and returns using an international sample of 1,334 banks in 101 countries leading up to the 2007 financial crisis. Expansion into non-interest income generating activities such as trading increases the rate of return on assets, and it may offer some risk diversification benefits at very low levels. Non-deposit, wholesale funding, by contrast, lowers the rate of return on assets, although it can offer some risk reduction at commonly observed low levels of non-deposit funding. A sizeable proportion of banks, however, attract most of their short-term funding in the form of non-deposits at a cost of enhanced bank fragility. Overall, banking strategies that rely prominently on generating non-interest income or attracting non-deposit funding are very risky, which is consistent with the demise of the U.S. investment banking sector. "--World Bank web site
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    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-4837
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    Is there an incipient turnaround in Asia's "missing girls" phenomenon ? (2009)
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 4846
    Parallel Title: Das Gupta, Monica Is there an incipient turnaround in Asia's "missing girls" phenomenon ?
    Keywords: Sex of children, Parental preferences for ; Sex ratio ; Sex of children, Parental preferences for ; Sex ratio
    Abstract: "The apparently inexorable rise in the proportion of "missing girls" in much of East and South Asia has attracted much attention amongst researchers and policy-makers. An encouraging trend was suggested by the case of South Korea, where child sex ratios were the highest in Asia but peaked in the mid-1990s and normalized thereafter. Using census data, we examine whether similar trends have begun to manifest themselves in the two large populous countries of this region, China and India. The data indicate that child sex ratios are peaking in these countries, and in many sub-national regions are beginning to trend towards less masculinization. This suggests that, with continuing vigorous efforts to reduce son preference, the "missing girls" phenomenon could be addressed in Asia. "--World Bank web site
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    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-4846
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    No more cutting class? : reducing teacher absence and providing incentives for performance (2009)
    [Washington, D.C] : World Bank
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 4847
    Parallel Title: Rogers, F. Halsey No more cutting class?
    Keywords: Education ; Teachers Leaves of absence ; Education ; Teachers Leaves of absence
    Abstract: "Expanding and improving basic education in developing countries requires, at a minimum, teachers who are present in the classroom and motivated to teach, but this essential input is often missing. This paper describes the findings of a series of recent World Bank and other studies on teacher absence and incentives for performance. Surprise school visits reveal that teachers are absent at high rates in countries such as India, Indonesia, Uganda, Ecuador, and Zambia, reducing the quality of schooling for children, especially in rural, remote, and poor areas. More broadly, poor teacher management and low levels of teacher accountability afflict many developing-country education systems. The paper presents evidence on these shortcomings, but also on the types of incentives, management, and support structures that can improve motivation and performance and reduce avoidable absenteeism. It concludes with policy options for developing countries to explore as they work to meet Education for All goals and improve quality. "--World Bank web site
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    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-4847
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    Banking on politics (2009)
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 4902
    Parallel Title: Braun, Matías Banking on politics
    Keywords: Bank directors ; Banking law ; Bank directors ; Banking law
    Abstract: "This paper presents new data from 150 countries showing that former cabinet members, central bank governors, and financial regulators are many orders of magnitude more likely than other citizens to become board members of banks. Countries where the politician-banker phenomenon is more prevalent have higher corruption and more powerful yet less accountable governments, but not better functioning financial systems. Regulation becomes more pro-banker where this happens more often. Furthermore, a higher fraction of the rents that are created accrue to bankers, former politicians are not more likely to be directors when their side is in power, and banks are more profitable without being more leveraged. Rather than supporting a public interest view, the evidence is consistent with a capture-type private interest story where, in exchange for a non-executive position at a bank in the future, politicians provide for beneficial regulation. "--World Bank web site
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    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-4902
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    Making sense of Africa's infrastructure endowment : a benchmarking approach (2009)
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 4912
    Parallel Title: Yepes, Tito Making sense of Africa's infrastructure endowment
    Keywords: Infrastructure (Economics) ; Infrastructure (Economics)
    Abstract: "The paper's objective is to explain factors underlying Africa's weak infrastructure endowment and to identify suitable infrastructure goals for the region based on benchmarking against international peers. The authors use a dataset covering the stocks of key infrastructure-including information and communication technology (ICT), power, roads, and water-across 155 developing countries over the period 1960 to 2005. The paper also examines subregional differences within Africa. They make use of regression techniques to control for a comprehensive set of economic, demographic, geographic, and historic conditioning factors, as well as adjusting for potential endogeneities. Results show that Africa lags behind all other regions of the developing world in its infrastructure endowment, except in ICT. By far the largest gaps arise in the power sector, with generating capacity and household access to electricity at half the levels observed in South Asia. While it is often assumed that Africa's infrastructure deficit is largely a reflection of its relatively low income levels, the authors find that African countries have much more limited infrastructure than income peers in other parts of the developing world. Countries that face the most challenging environment, with low population density, weak governance, and history of conflict, have the poorest infrastructure endowments. At the outset of the data series, Africa was doing significantly better than other developing regions for road density, generation capacity, and fixed-line telephones, but Africa's relative position has deteriorated over time. The most dramatic loss of ground has come in electrical generating capacity, which has stagnated since 1980. "--World Bank web site
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    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-4912
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    Infrastructure and growth in Africa (2009)
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 4914
    Parallel Title: Calderón, César Infrastructure and growth in Africa
    Keywords: Infrastructure (Economics) ; Infrastructure (Economics)
    Abstract: "The goal of the paper is to provide a comprehensive assessment of the impact of infrastructure development on growth in African countries. Based on econometric estimates for a sample of 136 countries from 1960-2005, the authors evaluate the impact on per capita growth of faster accumulation of infrastructure stocks and of enhancement in the quality of infrastructure services for 39 African countries in three key infrastructure sectors: telecommunications, electricity, and roads. Using an econometric technique suitable for dynamic panel data models and likely endogenous regressors, the authors find that infrastructure stocks and service quality boost economic growth. The growth payoff of reaching the infrastructure development of the African leader (Mauritius) is 1.1 percent of GDP per year in North Africa and 2.3 percent in Sub-Saharan Africa, with most of the contribution coming from more, rather than better, infrastructure. Across Africa, infrastructure contributed 99 basis points to per capita economic growth, versus 68 points for other structural policies. Most of the contribution came from increases in stocks (89 basis points), versus quality improvements (10 basis points). The findings show that growth is positively affected by the volume of infrastructure stocks and the quality of infrastructure services; simulations show that our empirical findings are significant statistically and economically. Identifying areas of opportunity to generate productivity growth, the authors find that African countries are likely to gain more from larger stocks of infrastructure than from enhancements in the quality of existing infrastructure. The payoffs are largest for telephone density, electricity-generating capacity, road-network length, and road quality. "--World Bank web site
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    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-4914
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    The crisis-resilience of services trade (2009)
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 4917
    Parallel Title: Borchert, Ingo The crisis-resilience of services trade
    Keywords: Service industries ; Service industries
    Abstract: "Much attention has focused on the impact of the current crisis on goods trade; hardly any on its impact on services trade. Using new trade data from the United States, and more aggregate data from other OECD countries, the authors show that services trade is weathering the current crisis much better than goods trade. As of February 2009, the value of US goods imports had declined year-on-year by 33 percent and the value of goods exports by 21 percent; services imports and exports each had declined by less than 7 percent. Within services, interesting patterns are emerging. Trade in goods-related transport services and crisis-related financial services has shrunk, as has expenditure on tourism abroad. But trade in a range of business, professional, and technical services is still increasing, with US exports growing even faster (at 10 percent) than US imports (at 7 percent). Developing countries like India, which are relatively specialized in business process outsourcing and information technology services, have suffered much smaller declines in total exports to the United States than countries like Brazil and China and regions like Africa, which are specialized in exports of goods, transport services, or tourism services. On the basis of new evidence from Indian services exporters, the authors suggest that services trade is buoyant relative to goods trade for two reasons: demand for a range of traded services is less cyclical, and services trade and production are less dependent on external finance. Even though few explicitly protectionist measures have so far been taken in services, the changing political climate and the widening boundaries of the state in crisis countries may introduce a national bias in firms' procurement and location choices. "--World Bank web site
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    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-4917
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    Assessing the economic impacts of an economic partnership agreement on Nigeria (2009)
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 4920
    Parallel Title: Andriamananjara, Soamiely Assessing the economic impacts of an economic partnership agreement on Nigeria
    Keywords: European Union countries Foreign economic relations ; Nigeria Foreign economic relations ; European Union countries Foreign economic relations ; Nigeria Foreign economic relations
    Abstract: "This study discusses potential economic implications for Nigeria of an Economic Partnership Agreement with the European Union. It uses the World Bank's Tariff Reform Impact Simulation Tool to assess the effects of preferential tariff liberalization with respect to the European Union. The results suggest that the impact of an Economic Partnership Agreement on total imports into Nigeria will be slight. This is in part because the Agreement will likely allow the most protected sectors to be excluded from liberalization, and also because where substantial tariffs are involved much of the increase in imports from the European Union will occur at the expense of other suppliers of imports. It is this trade diversion, arising from the discriminatory nature of the EPA, which generates a negative welfare impact of the tariff reforms. One way for Nigeria to limit these losses is to pursue non-preferential trade liberalization before implementing an EPA. The paper looks at the large number of import bans in Nigeria and argues that the positive impact on welfare of removing these import bans is likely to be substantial. Their removal would undermine a major reason for cross border smuggling and pave the way for a return to normal regional trade flows. The paper shows how an Economic Partnership Agreement presents an opportunity for accelerating the reforms that are needed to support a strategy to increase regional and global trade integration. Such an agreement is more likely to have positive and significant impacts when integrated into a comprehensive strategy toward competitiveness and alleviation of the supply constraints that have stifled the impact of previous trade agreements. Key issues that should be addressed include liberalization and regulatory strengthening of services sectors to ensure that all firms in Nigeria have access to efficiently produced backbone services and initiatives to address the country's poor trade logistics performance. "--World Bank web site
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    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-4920
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    Poverty and income seasonality in Bangladesh (2009)
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 4923
    Parallel Title: Khandker, Shahidur R Poverty and income seasonality in Bangladesh
    Keywords: Income ; Poverty ; Income ; Poverty
    Abstract: "Seasonal poverty in Bangladesh, locally known as monga, refers to seasonal deprivation of food during the pre-harvest season of Aman rice. An analysis of household income and expenditure survey data shows that average household income and consumption are much lower during monga season than in other seasons, and that seasonal income greatly influences seasonal consumption. However, lack of income and consumption smoothing is more acute in greater Rangpur, the North West region, than in other regions, causing widespread seasonal deprivation. The analysis shows that agricultural income diversification accompanied by better access to micro-credit, irrigation, education, electrification, social safety net programs, and dynamic labor markets has helped reduce seasonality in income and poverty in regions other than Rangpur in the recent past. Hence, government policies should promote income diversification through infrastructure investments and provide income transfers to the targeted poor to contain income seasonality and poverty in this impoverished part of Bangladesh. "--World Bank web site
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    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-4923
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    International migration, transfers of norms and home country fertility (2009)
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 4925
    Parallel Title: Beine, Michel International migration, transfers of norms and home country fertility
    Keywords: Internationale Migration ; Soziale Norm ; Fertilität ; Bildungsverhalten ; Migranten ; Welt ; Emigration and immigration ; Fertility, Human ; Emigration and immigration ; Fertility, Human
    Abstract: "This paper examines the relationship between international migration and source country fertility. The impact of international migration on source country fertility may have a number of causes, including a transfer of destination countries' fertility norms and an incentive to acquire more education. It provides provide a rigorous test of the diffusion on of fertility norms using original and detailed data on migration. The results provide evidence of a significant transfer of fertility norms from migrants to their country of origin: a one percent decrease in the fertility norm to which migrants are exposed reduces home country fertility by about 0.3 percent for origin countries. "--World Bank web site
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    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-4925
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    When do legislators pass on "pork"? : the determinants of legislator utilization of a constituency development fund in India (2009)
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 4929
    Parallel Title: Keefer, Philip When do legislators pass on "pork"?
    Keywords: Economic development projects Finance ; India ; Economic development projects Finance ; India
    Abstract: "The authors examine a unique public spending program that is proliferating across developing countries, the constituency development fund, to investigate when legislators exert more effort on behalf of their constituents. Using data from India, they find that legislator effort is significantly lower in constituencies where voters are more attached to political parties. They are also lower in constituencies that are reserved for members of socially disadvantaged groups (lower castes), specifically in those reserved constituencies that are candidate strongholds. This result is robust to controls for alternate explanations and implies that legislators pass on pork when voters are more attached to political parties or influenced by identity issues. These findings have implications for the evaluation of constituency development funds. They also provide a new answer to a central issue in political economy, the conditions under which legislators seek to "bring home the pork" to constituents, that attaches great importance to the role of political parties. "--World Bank web site
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    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-4929
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    Household welfare and natural resource management around national parks in Zambia (2009)
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 4932
    Parallel Title: Bandyopadhyay, Sushenjit Household welfare and natural resource management around national parks in Zambia
    Keywords: Wildlife management areas ; Wildlife management areas ; Zambia Economic conditions ; Zambia Economic conditions
    Abstract: "Game management areas in Zambia aim to combine nature conservation with economic empowerment of rural households. By looking at households inside and outside game management areas, this study advances the knowledge of the impact of community based natural resource management on household welfare. The paper focuses on the economic welfare of households living inside game management areas. It tries to answer the question: Do the households in game management areas enjoy higher levels of welfare relative to the conditions they would have been in had the area not been designated as a game management area? Within the game management area, the paper tries to determine the factors that influence household participation in natural resource management, and whether the participating households get any extra benefits. Also of interest is whether such benefits of living in a game management area, and, once in such an area, those of participating accrue more to the poorer segments of the communities. The study finds that the gains from living in a game management area and from active participation in natural resource management are large but unevenly distributed. Only game management areas near Kasanka, Lavushi, Isangano, and South Luangwa national parks in the sample show significant benefits to general and participating households. And in those areas, the poor do not seem to gain even when they participate actively. More even distribution of gains from game management areas across households near different park systems and across the poor and the non-poor should be a continuing goal of national policy makers. "--World Bank web site
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    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-4932
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    Public finance, security, and development : a framework and an application to Afghanistan (2009)
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 4806
    Parallel Title: Byrd, William A Public finance, security, and development
    Keywords: Economic development ; Finance, Public ; Internal security ; Economic development ; Finance, Public ; Internal security
    Abstract: "Security is increasingly viewed as a key condition for economic growth and development. The authors argue that the work and impact of all development partners would be enhanced if the multiple linkages between public finance, security, and development were explicitly taken into account. At the extreme, in some cases better public finance management could have more impact on security than would more troops. The paper first outlines three core linkages between security and development-through the investment climate, human and social capital, and institutions. The authors then propose three complementary tools to analyze the security sector from the point of view of public finance management, service delivery, and governance. This conceptual framework is applied to the case of Afghanistan. The paper closes by drawing some conclusions about possible entry points for dialogue in this difficult area. "--World Bank web site
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    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-4806
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    The use and misuse of computers in education : evidence from a randomized experiment in Colombia (2009)
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 4836
    Parallel Title: Barrera Osorio, Felipe The use and misuse of computers in education
    Keywords: Computer-assisted instruction ; Computer-assisted instruction
    Abstract: "This paper presents the evaluation of the program Computers for Education. The program aims to integrate computers, donated by the private sector, into the teaching of language in public schools. The authors conduct a two-year randomized evaluation of the program using a sample of 97 schools and 5,201 children. Overall, the program seems to have had little effect on students' test scores and other outcomes. These results are consistent across grade levels, subjects, and gender. The main reason for these results seems to be the failure to incorporate the computers into the educational process. Although the program increased the number of computers in the treatment schools and provided training to the teachers on how to use the computers in their classrooms, surveys of both teachers and students suggest that teachers did not incorporate the computers into their curriculum. "--World Bank web site
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    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-4836
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    Local financial development and growth (2009)
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 4838
    Parallel Title: Kendall, Jake Local financial development and growth
    Keywords: Banks and banking ; Human capital ; Banks and banking ; Human capital ; India Economic conditions 1991- ; Regional disparities ; India Economic conditions 1991- ; Regional disparities
    Abstract: "Using a unique sample of net domestic product data for districts in India, I investigate the connection between banking sector development, human capital, and economic growth at the sub-national level. Using disaggregate data avoids many of the omitted variable problems that plague cross-country studies of the finance-growth connection and facilitates an instrumentation strategy. The findings show that the growth of many districts in India is financially constrained due to lack of banking sector development, and that the relationship between finance and growth may be non-linear. For the districts in the sample, moving from the 75th percentile of credit/net domestic product to the 25th percentile implies an average loss of 4 percent in growth over the 1990s. This indicates that the gains from increased banking sector outreach may be large. The analysis shows that human capital deepening can reduce the effect of the financial constraint and help decouple growth from financial development. In a district at the 25th literacy percentile, the implied growth loss due to a constrained banking sector is twice as large as in a district at the 75th literacy percentile. Thus, higher levels of human capital may activate alternative growth and production channels that are less finance intensive. "--World Bank web site
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    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-4838
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    What drives firm productivity growth ? (2009)
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 4841
    Parallel Title: Anós Casero, Paloma What drives firm productivity growth ?
    Keywords: Industrial productivity ; Industrial productivity
    Abstract: "This paper presents new evidence on the causal links between changes in the business environment and firm productivity growth. It contributes to the literature in three important aspects. First, it constructs a unique database merging information from two large firm-level databases. The samples of both databases are merged on four criteria-country, sub-national location, firm size, and year-producing a panel of 22,004 firms in eight economies of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union: Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia,, Poland, Romania, Serbia, and Ukraine. Second, the paper addresses shortcomings of earlier studies, namely reverse causation, multicollinearity, and unreliable productivity estimates. Firm productivity growth is estimated drawing on corporate financial data from manufacturing firms included in the AMADEUS database. Changes in the business environment are estimated from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys conducted in 2002 and 2005. Multicollinearity problems in the full model regression are mitigated by constructing a set of six aggregate indicators of the business environment (using principal component analysis). The paper finds that, over the period 2001 to 2004, an increase of one standard deviation in infrastructure quality, financial development, governance, labor market flexibility, labor quality, and market competition raises the total factor productivity of the average firm by 9.8, 7.8, 3.2, 3.4, 5.8, and 3 percent, respectively. Lastly, the paper decomposes firm productivity growth and ranks the relative impact of changes in these six aspects of the business environment by country, by firm size, and by industry. "--World Bank web site
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    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-4841
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    Weakly relative poverty (2009)
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 4844
    Parallel Title: Ravallion, Martin Weakly relative poverty
    Keywords: Poverty ; Poverty
    Abstract: "Prevailing measures of relative poverty put an implausibly high weight on relative deprivation, such that measured poverty does not fall when all incomes grow at the same rate. This stems from the (implicit) assumption in past measures that very poor people incur a negligible cost of social inclusion. That assumption is inconsistent with evidence on the social roles of certain private expenditures in poor settings and with data on national poverty lines. The authors propose a new schedule of "weakly relative" lines that relax this assumption and estimate the implied poverty measures for 116 developing countries. The authors find that there is more relative poverty than past estimates have suggested. In 2005, one half of the population of the developing world lived in relative poverty, half of whom were absolutely poor. The total number of relatively poor rose over 1981-2005, despite falling numbers of absolutely poor. With sustained economic growth, the incidence of relative poverty becomes less responsive to further growth. Slower progress against relative poverty can thus be seen as the "other side of the coin" to success against absolute poverty. "--World Bank web site
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    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-4844
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    Transforming natural resource wealth into sustained growth and poverty reduction : a conceptual framework for Sub-Saharan African oil exporting countries (2009)
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 4852
    Parallel Title: Toto Same, Achille Transforming natural resource wealth into sustained growth and poverty reduction
    Keywords: Natural resources Government policy ; Natural resources Government policy
    Abstract: "Oil and mineral revenues raise national savings and hence facilitate investment, capital accumulation, and sustained growth; thus, there are benefits of owning large natural resources. There can be a significant spillover effect from the oil sector to the non-oil sector particularly if governments are committed to bridge the infrastructure gap and promote the non-oil economy and foremost the non-oil tradable sector. Consequently, the capacity for coordinated policy formulation and execution is fundamental as well as sound windfall management mechanisms and institutions. This conceptual framework uses the case of Indonesia and the example of Norway to argue that the resource paradox is avoidable. Abundance should not be a curse, but rather a blessing for Sub-Saharan Africa's oil and mineral exporting countries. The country context and political economy matter a great deal but should not be the main driving forces behind windfall management, to avoid excessive rent-seeking activities, inefficiency, and wasteful spending. The EITI++ implementation can contribute to make a difference, mostly through capacity building, implementation assistance, and coordination support. "--World Bank web site
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    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-4852
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    Bidders' entry and auctioneer's rejection : applying a double selection model to road procurement auctions (2009)
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 4855
    Parallel Title: Estache, Antonio Bidders' entry and auctioneer's rejection
    Abstract: "Limited competition has been a serious concern in infrastructure procurement. Importantly, however, there are normally a number of potential bidders initially showing interest in proposed projects. This paper focuses on tackling the question why these initially interested bidders fade out. An empirical problem is that no bids of fading-out firms are observable. They could decide not to enter the process at the beginning of the tendering or may be technically disqualified at any point in the selection process. This paper applies the double selection model to procurement data from road development projects in developing countries and examines why competition ends up restricted. It shows that bidders are self-selective and auctioneers also tend to limit participation depending on the size of contracts. Therefore, limited competition would likely lead to high infrastructure procurement costs. "--World Bank web site
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    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-4855
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    Poverty decline, agricultural wages, and non-farm employment in rural India : 1983-2004 (2009)
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 4858
    Parallel Title: Lanjouw, Peter Poverty decline, agricultural wages, and non-farm employment in rural India
    Keywords: Agricultural laborers ; Manpower policy, Rural ; Poverty ; Rural poor ; Agricultural laborers ; Manpower policy, Rural ; Poverty ; Rural poor
    Abstract: "The authors analyze five rounds of National Sample Survey data covering 1983, 1987/8, 1993/4, 1999/0, and 2004/5 to explore the relationship between rural diversification and poverty. Poverty in rural India declined at a modest rate during this period. The authors provide region-level estimates that illustrate considerable geographic heterogeneity in this progress. Poverty estimates correlate well with region-level data on changes in agricultural wage rates. Agricultural labor remains the preserve of the uneducated and also to a large extent of the scheduled castes and scheduled tribes. Although agricultural labor grew as a share of total economic activity over the first four rounds, it had fallen back to the levels observed at the beginning of the survey period by 2004. This all-India trajectory masks widely varying trends across states. During this period, the rural non-farm sector grew modestly, mainly between the last two survey rounds. Regular non-farm employment remains largely associated with education levels and social status that are rare among the poor. However, casual labor and self-employment in the non-farm sector reveal greater involvement by disadvantaged groups in 2004 than in the preceding rounds. The implication for poverty is not immediately clear - the poor may be pushed into low-return casual non-farm activities due to lack of opportunities in the agricultural sector rather than being pulled by high returns offered by the non-farm sector. Econometric estimates reveal that expansion of the non-farm sector is associated with falling poverty via two routes: a direct impact on poverty that is likely due to a pro-poor marginal incidence of non-farm employment expansion; and an indirect impact attributable to the positive effect of non-farm employment growth on agricultural wages. The analysis also confirms the important contribution to rural poverty reduction from agricultural productivity, availability of land, and consumption levels in proximate urban areas. "--World Bank web site
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    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-4858
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    The current account as a dynamic portfolio choice problem (2009)
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 4861
    Parallel Title: Didier, Tatiana The current account as a dynamic portfolio choice problem
    Keywords: Balance of payments ; Portfolio management ; Balance of payments ; Portfolio management
    Abstract: "The current account can be understood as the outcome of investment decisions made by domestic and foreign investors. These decisions can be decomposed into a portfolio rebalancing and a portfolio growth component. This paper provides empirical evidence of the importance of portfolio rebalancing for the dynamics of the current account. The authors evaluate the predictions of a partial-equilibrium model of the current account with dynamic portfolio choices, in which portfolio rebalancing is driven by changes in investment opportunities. Using data for the United States and Japan, the authors find evidence supporting innovations in investment opportunities as an important mechanism to explain international capital flows. "--World Bank web site
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    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-4861
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    How do agricultural policy restrictions to global trade and welfare differ across commodities ? (2009)
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 4864
    Parallel Title: Lloyd, P. J How do agricultural policy restrictions to global trade and welfare differ across commodities ?
    Keywords: Agricultural subsidies ; Agriculture and state ; Agricultural subsidies ; Agriculture and state
    Abstract: "For decades the world's agricultural markets have been highly distorted by national government policies, but very differently for different commodities. Hence a weighted average across countries of nominal rates of assistance or consumer tax equivalents for a product can be misleading as an indicator of the trade or welfare effects of policies affecting that product's global market. This is especially the case when some countries tax and others subsidize its production or consumption. This article develops a new set of more-satisfactory indicators for that purpose, drawing on the recent literature on trade restrictiveness indexes. It then exploits a global agricultural distortions database recently compiled by the World Bank to generate the first set of estimates of those two indicators for each of 28 key agricultural commodities from 1960 to 2004, based on a sample of 75 countries that together account for more than three-quarters of the world's production of those agricultural commodities. These reveal the considerable extent of reforms in agricultural policies of developing as well as high-income countries over the past two decades. "--World Bank web site
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    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-4864
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    A review of regulatory instruments to control environmental externalities from the transport sector (2009)
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 4867
    Parallel Title: Timilsina, Govinda R A review of regulatory instruments to control environmental externalities from the transport sector
    Keywords: Transportation Environmental aspects ; Transportation Environmental aspects
    Abstract: "This study reviews regulatory instruments designed to reduce environmental externalities from the transport sector. The study finds that the main regulatory instruments used in practice are fuel economy standards, vehicle emission standards, and fuel quality standards. Although industrialized countries have introduced all three standards with strong enforcement mechanisms, most developing countries have yet to introduce fuel economy standards. The emission standards introduced by many developing countries to control local air pollutants follow either the European Union or United States standards. Fuel quality standards, particularly for gasoline and diesel, have been introduced in many countries mandating 2 to 10 percent blending of biofuels, 10 to 50 times reduction of sulfur from 1996 levels, and banning lead contents. Although inspection and maintenance programs are in place in both industrialized and developing countries to enforce regulatory standards, these programs have faced several challenges in developing countries due to a lack of resources. The study also highlights several factors affecting the selection of regulatory instruments, such as countries' environmental priorities and institutional capacities. "--World Bank web site
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    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-4867
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    Zooming in : from aggregate volatility to income distribution (2009)
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 4895
    Parallel Title: Calderón, César Zooming in
    Abstract: "In contrast with a growing literature on the drivers of aggregate volatility in developing countries, its consequences in terms of individual incomes have received less attention. This paper looks at the impact of cyclical output fluctuations and extreme output events (crises) on unemployment, poverty, and inequality. The authors find robust evidence that aggregate volatility has a regressive, asymmetric, and non linear impact, as reflected in the strong influence of extreme output drops. The findings show that, in addition to the mitigating role of personal wealth, public expenditure and labor protection exert a similar benign effect. These findings are in line with the income substitutions view of social safety nets, and cast a new light on the value of social programs and labor market regulation in crisis prone developing countries. "--World Bank web site
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    Industrial structure, appropriate technology and economic growth in less developed countries (2009)
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 4905
    Parallel Title: Lin, Justin Yifu Industrial structure, appropriate technology and economic growth in less developed countries
    Keywords: Appropriate technology ; Technological innovations ; Appropriate technology ; Technological innovations
    Abstract: "The authors develop an endogenous growth model that combines structural change with repeated product improvement. That is, the technologies in one sector of the model become not only increasingly capital-intensive, but also progressively productive over time. Application of the basic model to less developed economies shows that the (optimal) industrial structure and the (most) appropriate technologies in less developed economies are endogenously determined by their factor endowments. A firm in a less developed country that enters a capital-intensive, advanced industry in a developed country would be nonviable owing to the relative scarcity of capital in the factor endowments of less developed countries. "--World Bank web site
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    Exit and save : migration and saving under violence (2009)
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 4918
    Parallel Title: Grun, Rebekka E Exit and save
    Keywords: Saving and investment ; Saving and investment ; Colombia Emigration and immigration ; Colombia Emigration and immigration
    Abstract: "This paper examines how households trade off migration and savings when subject to exogenous violence. The authors propose that households under violence decide jointly on migration and saving, because a higher asset-stock is more difficult to carry to a new place. When confronted with exogenous violence, households are expected to consider migration, and reduce their assets, both in order to reduce their exposure to violence, and to make migration easier. In some cases, after a migration decision has been taken, savings can increase as a function of violence to ensure a minimum bundle to carry. Empirical evidence from rich Colombian micro-data supports the conceptual framework for violence that carries a displacement threat, such as guerrilla attacks. "--World Bank web site
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    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-4918
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    Can risk averse competitive input providers serve farmers efficiently in developing countries ? (2009)
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 4922
    Parallel Title: Makdissi, Paul Can risk averse competitive input providers serve farmers efficiently in developing countries ?
    Abstract: "Under price ceilings and quality floors for agricultural inputs in cash crop sectors in developing countries where credit markets are weak, imperfect information on the ability of farmers to pay for their inputs at the end of the cropping season may lead the decentralized production of those inputs by risk averse private input providers to be inefficient. A coordinating agency and/or subsidies for new farmers could help to produce and distribute more agricultural inputs, thereby increasing the profits for input providers while also enabling more farmers to produce the crops that are key to their livelihood. "--World Bank web site
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    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-4922
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    A special safeguard mechanism for agricultural imports and the management of reform (2009)
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 4927
    Parallel Title: Finger, J. M A special safeguard mechanism for agricultural imports and the management of reform
    Abstract: "The records of traditional safeguard provisions of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the World Trade Organization provides useful information about how a special agricultural safeguard might be made effective. The success of existing safeguard or flexibility provisions to sustain long-run liberalization programs stems from their requiring objective, transparent, and participatory decisions on the application of the import restrictions they allow. The proposed special agricultural safeguard expands by arithmetic formula the bounds within which a Member may impose a new import restriction. Analysis reported here suggests that the formulas provide a poor guide for policy, indicating that they would frequently prescribe action that is not needed and fail to prescribe action when it would be appropriate. Analysis of the existing agricultural safeguard, to which the special agricultural safeguard is similar, indicates that it has functioned not as an allowance for occasional response to unusual situations but as an expansion of the limits Members have accepted through tariff bindings. To be useful, the special agricultural safeguard should do more than provide formulas for import restrictions. It should provide for objective and participatory processes that would bring forward relevant information and guide an objective and balanced accounting of the interests at play. "--World Bank web site
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    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-4927
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    Uncivil societies : a theory of sociopolitical change (2009)
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 4942
    Parallel Title: Monga, Célestin Uncivil societies
    Keywords: Civil society ; Economic development ; Civil society ; Economic development
    Abstract: "In times of crises, it is always useful to revisit some of the paradigms that underlie collective thinking and action. For nearly 200 years, most social science has relied on the assumption that the emergence of strong and nurturing social capital through a vibrant civil society yields all kind of positive externalities to society. Following intuition and anecdotal observations from Alexis de Tocqueville, a large body of theoretical and empirical research has attempted to confirm that societies strive politically and economically when they are able to build strong non-state actors and community organizations. Many disciplines-mainly political science, economics, law, and international relations-have constructed influential analytical frameworks in support of that general proposition. This paper examines the philosophical foundations of conventional wisdom and observes that it often fails to take into account the dark side of some civil society groups, from the mafia to Al Qaeda. While acknowledging the potential contribution of civil society to the development process, the paper also cautions again the rush to circumvent the state, which sometimes sustains community-based initiatives in poor countries. It suggests the possibility of the production of negative social capital by non-state actors. "--World Bank web site
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    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-4942
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    The regional dimension of North-South trade-related r&d spillover (2009)
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 4826
    Parallel Title: Schiff, Maurice W The regional dimension of North-South trade-related r&d spillover
    Keywords: Diffusion of innovations ; Industrial productivity. i ; International trade ; Diffusion of innovations ; Industrial productivity. i ; International trade
    Abstract: "This paper examines the impact of trade with Japan, North America, and the European Union on technology diffusion and total factor productivity growth in Korea, Mexico, and Jordan. Measures of foreign research and development are constructed based on industry-specific research and development in the North, North-South trade patterns, and input-output relations in the South. The findings show that technology diffusion and productivity gains tend to be regional. Jordan benefits mainly from trade with the European Union, Korea from trade with Japan, and Mexico from trade with North America. In other words, the dynamic version of the "natural trading partners" hypothesis holds for these countries. "--World Bank web site
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    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-4826
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    Low-income countries' access to private debt markets (2009)
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 4829
    Parallel Title: Hostland, Doug Low-income countries' access to private debt markets
    Keywords: Debts, External ; Loans, Foreign ; Debts, External ; Loans, Foreign
    Abstract: "Private debt flows to developing countries surged to record levels over the period 2003-07. A few low-income countries have gained access to the international bond market but the bulk of the flows have continued to go to just a few large middle-income countries. Most low-income countries still heavily depend on concessional loans and grants from the official sector to meet their financing needs. The paper provides an overview of low-income countries' access to cross-border bank lending and bond issuance in the international market over the past few decades. It highlights some stylized facts that characterize salient features of low-income countries' experience in external borrowing from the private sector and discusses the various factors that influence governments' and corporations' decisions to seek external financing along with creditors' decisions to provide the financing. The paper concludes by assessing the prospects for low-income countries' access to private debt markets over the medium term. "--World Bank web site
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    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-4829
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    Valuing mortality and morbidity in the context of disaster risks (2009)
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 4832
    Parallel Title: L. Cropper, Maureen Valuing mortality and morbidity in the context of disaster risks
    Keywords: Disasters ; Mortality ; Disasters ; Mortality
    Abstract: "Benefit-cost analyses of disaster risk reduction (DRR) projects are an important tool for evaluating the efficiency of such projects, and an important input into decision making. These analyses, however, often fail to monetize the benefits of reduced death and injury. The authors review the literature on valuing reduced death and injury, and suggest methods for calculating order-of-magnitude estimates of these benefits. Because few empirical estimates of the Value of a Statistical Life (VSL) are available for developing countries, methods for transferring estimates from high income to middle and low income countries are reviewed. The authors suggest using the range of values implied by an income elasticity of 1.0 and an elasticity of 1.5. With regard to injury valuation they discuss arguments for and against monetizing Quality Adjusted Life Years, and provide shortcuts to valuing injuries that may be used to assess their importance in DRR benefit-cost analyses. "--World Bank web site
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    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-4832
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    Determinants of international emergency aid : humanitarian need only? (2009)
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 4839
    Parallel Title: Fink, Guenther Determinants of international emergency aid
    Keywords: Disaster relief ; Natural disasters ; Disaster relief ; Natural disasters
    Abstract: "The authors use an original data set covering more than 400 recent natural disasters to analyze the determinants of international emergency aid. Although humanitarian need is a major determinant of emergency relief payments, the results imply that political and strategic factors play a crucial role in the emergency aid allocation. On average, donor governments favor smaller, geographically closer, and oil exporting countries, and display significant biases in favor of politically less aligned countries as well as toward their former colonies. The authors also test and reject the independence of donors' aid decisions, finding strong evidence for bandwagon effects in humanitarian assistance. "--World Bank web site
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    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-4839
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    Assessing the impact of political economy factors on rules of origin under NAFTA (2009)
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 4848
    Parallel Title: Portugal-Pérez, Alberto Assessing the impact of political economy factors on rules of origin under NAFTA
    Keywords: Certificates of origin ; Certificates of origin
    Abstract: "Rules of origin are legitimate policy instruments to prevent trade deflection in a preferential trade agreement short of a customs union. Trade deflection takes place when a product imported into the preferential trade agreement through the member with the lowest external tariff is transhipped to a higher-tariff member, while yielding a benefit for the re-exporter. Yet, when captured by special interest groups, rules of origin can restrict trade beyond what is needed to prevent trade deflection. By how much do political economy factors account for the stringency of rules of origin? This study quantifies the impact of both determinants - those considered "justifiable" because they prevent trade deflection and those deemed to arise from "political economy" forces - on the restrictiveness of rules of origin under the North American Free Trade Agreement, approximated by a restrictiveness index. The main finding is that political economy forces, especially from the United States, raised significantly the restrictiveness of the rules of origin. Indeed, in industries where political-economy forces were strong prior to the North American Free Trade Agreement, as when the U.S. Most Favored Nation tariff was high or the revealed comparative advantage of Mexico (the United States) was strong (weak), more stringent rules of origin were introduced. Thus, stricter rules of origin are associated with higher production costs reducing the potential benefits of enhanced market access that is initially pursued by this type of agreement. "--World Bank web site
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    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-4848
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    Transactional sex as a response to risk in Western Kenya (2009)
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 4857
    Parallel Title: Robinson, Jonathan Transactional sex as a response to risk in Western Kenya
    Keywords: AIDS (Disease) ; Prostitutes Health and hygiene ; Prostitution Health aspects ; AIDS (Disease) ; Prostitutes Health and hygiene ; Prostitution Health aspects
    Abstract: "Formal and informal commercial sex work is a way of life for many poor women in developing countries. Though sex workers have long been identified as crucial in affecting the spread of HIV/AIDS, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, the nature of sex-for-money transactions remains poorly understood. Using a unique panel dataset constructed from 192 self-reported sex worker diaries which include detailed information on sexual behavior, labor supply, and health shocks, the authors find that sex workers adjust their supply of risky, better compensated sex to cope with unexpected health shocks, exposing themselves to increased risk of HIV infection. In particular, women are 3.1 percent more likely to see a client, 21.2 percent more likely to have anal sex, and 19.1 percent more likely to have unprotected sex on days in which a household member falls ill. Women also increase their supply of risky sex on days after missing work due to symptoms from a sexually transmitted infection. Given that HIV prevalence has been estimated at 9.8 percent in this part of Kenya, these behavioral responses entail significant health risks for sex workers and their partners, and suggest that sex workers are unable to cope with risk through other formal or informal consumption smoothing mechanisms. "--World Bank web site
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    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-4857
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    Long-term financial incentives and investment in daughters : evidence from conditional cash transfers in north India (2009)
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 4860
    Parallel Title: Sinha, Nistha Long-term financial incentives and investment in daughters
    Keywords: Daughters ; Health status indicators ; Human capital ; Sex of children, Parental preferences for ; Daughters ; Health status indicators ; Human capital ; Sex of children, Parental preferences for
    Abstract: "Since the early 1990s, several states in India have introduced financial incentive programs to discourage son preference among parents and encourage investment in daughters' education and health. This study evaluates one such program in the state of Haryana, Apni Beti Apna Dhan (Our Daughter, Our Wealth). Since 1994, eligible parents in Haryana have been offered a financial incentive if they give birth to a daughter. The incentive consists of an immediate cash grant and a long-term savings bond redeemable on the daughter's 18th birthday provided she is unmarried, with additional bonuses for education. Although no specific program participation data are available, we estimate early intent-to-treat program effects on mothers (sex ratio among live children, fertility preferences) and children (mother's use of antenatal care, survival, nutritional status, immunization, schooling) using statewide household survey data on fertility and child health, and constructing proxies for household and individual program eligibility. The results based on this limited data imply that Apni Beti Apna Dhan had a positive effect on the sex ratio of living children, but inconclusive effects on mothers' preferences for having female children as well as total desired fertility. The findings also show that parents increased their investment in daughters' human capital as a result of the program. Families made greater post-natal health investments in eligible girls, with some mixed evidence of improving health status in the short and medium term. Further evidence also suggests that the early cohort of eligible school-age girls was not significantly more likely to attend school; however, conditional on first attending any school, they may be more likely to continue their education. "--World Bank web site
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    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-4860
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    Energy demand models for policy formulation : a comparative study of energy demand models (2009)
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 4866
    Parallel Title: Bhattacharyya, Subhes C Energy demand models for policy formulation
    Keywords: Energy policy ; Energy policy
    Abstract: "This paper critically reviews existing energy demand forecasting methodologies highlighting the methodological diversities and developments over the past four decades in order to investigate whether the existing energy demand models are appropriate for capturing the specific features of developing countries. The study finds that two types of approaches, econometric and end-use accounting, are used in the existing energy demand models. Although energy demand models have greatly evolved since the early 1970s, key issues such as the poor-rich and urban-rural divides, traditional energy resources, and differentiation between commercial and non-commercial energy commodities are often poorly reflected in these models. While the end-use energy accounting models with detailed sector representations produce more realistic projections compared with the econometric models, they still suffer from huge data deficiencies especially in developing countries. Development and maintenance of more detailed energy databases, further development of models to better reflect developing country context, and institutionalizing the modeling capacity in developing countries are the key requirements for energy demand modeling to deliver richer and more reliable input to policy formulation in developing countries. "--World Bank web site
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    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-4866
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    Firms' productive performance and the investment climate in developing economies : an application to MENA manufacturing (2009)
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 4869
    Parallel Title: Kinda, Tidiane Firms' productive performance and the investment climate in developing economies
    Keywords: Industrial productivity ; Investments ; Industrial productivity ; Investments
    Abstract: "Drawing on the World Bank Investment Climate Assessment surveys, this paper investigates the relationship between firm-level technical efficiency and the investment climate for 22 developing economies and eight manufacturing industries. The authors first propose three measures of firms' productive performance: labor productivity, total factor productivity, and technical efficiency. They show that, on average, enterprises in the Middle East and North Africa have performed poorly compared with other countries in the sample. The exception is Morocco, whose various measures of firm-level productivity rank close to the ones of the most productive economies. The analysis also reveals that the competitiveness of countries in the region has been handicapped by high unit labor cost, compared with main competitors like China and India. The empirical results show then? that the investment climate matters for firms' productive performance. This is true (depending on the industry) for the quality of various infrastructure, the experience and education level of the labor force, the cost of and access to financing, as well as different dimensions of the government-business relation. The analysis reveals that some industries, more exposed to international competition, are more sensitive to investment climate deficiencies. For some industries, this is also true for small and medium domestic enterprises that do not have the possibility to influence their investment climate or choose their location. These findings bear clear policy implications by showing that increasing firms' size and improving the investment climate (in particular of small and medium firms and industries more exposed to international competition) could constitute a powerful means of industrial development and competitiveness, in the Middle East and North Africa region in particular. "--World Bank web site
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    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-4869
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