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  • 1
    Language: English
    Pages: ill , 30 cm
    DDC: 304.6/32/0962
    Keywords: Fertility ; Egypt ; Egypt ; Population ; Birth control ; Egypt
    Note: World Fertility Survey, International Statistical Institute , This project was conducted as part of the World Fertility Survey and with the collaboration of the World Bank"--T.p. verso , Includes bibliographical references
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  • 2
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    New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press
    ISBN: 9781978802018
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 197 pages)
    Series Statement: Rutgers series in childhood studies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Clark, Cindy Dell All Together Now : American Holiday Symbolism among Children and Adults
    DDC: 394.26
    Keywords: Symbolism ; Families ; Holidays Social aspects ; Symbolism ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; Manners and customs ; Families ; United States Social life and customs ; United States ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "In All Together Now, Cindy Dell Clark, through a study spanning from 1985 to 2015, addresses major American family holidays, including Easter, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Halloween, Christmas, and Hanukkah and explores the complex interactions within families. Her book integrates children's involvement in American family holidays and is relevant to the broad attempt in the anthropology and sociology of childhood to include children's perspectives in larger theorizing by mainstream disciplines"--
    Abstract: Spring season: Easter -- Summer season: Memorial Day and July 4th -- Autumn season: Halloween -- Winter season: Christmas and Chanukah -- How ritual meaning comes together.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , In English
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  • 3
    Language: French
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 371 pages)
    Series Statement: Collection Gouvernance et gestion publique
    Uniform Title: Expliquer l'ecart entre le discours du parti et celui du gouvernement
    Uniform Title: Realisation des promesses des partis au Quebec, 1994-2014
    Uniform Title: Participation electorale comme manifestation de la resistence à la taxation
    Uniform Title: Principes de la representation democratique dans la conduite de l'action publique
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Couture, Jérôme (dir.) Démocratie et Politiques Publiques
    DDC: 303.38
    Keywords: Democracy Congresses ; Government accountability Congresses ; Representative government and representation Congresses ; Political planning Congresses Citizen participation ; Representative government and representation Congresses ; Actes de congres ; Representative government and representation ; Conference papers and proceedings ; Government accountability ; Political planning ; Citizen participation ; Democracy ; Canada
    Abstract: "Les gouvernements elus repondent-ils aux attentes des citoyens? Les institutions democratiques favorisent-elles l'adoption et la mise en oeuvre de politiques publiques en adequation avec les preferences citoyennes? Selon le modele de la representation democratique, les elus doivent elaborer et mettre en oeuvre les politiques publiques souhaitees par les electeurs. De leur côte, les electeurs devraient recompenser ou sanctionner les elus en fonction de leurs performance et de la satisfaction de leurs attentes. En s'interessant à la relation qui unit la democratie et les politiques publiques, cet ouvrage offre un eclairage nouveau sur les enjeux relatifs à la reactivite et à l'imputabilite des elus. Les contributions rassemblees dans cet ouvrage expliquent les defis qui affectent la representation democratique. Il s'agit notamment du peu de place accordee à la participation du public dans les processus decisionnels, du fonctionnement et de l'organisation des administrations publiques et des difficultes d'acceder à une information credible et fiable au moment de prendre une decision."--Resume de l'editeur
    Abstract: Introduction : Les principes de la representation democratique dans la conduite de l'action publique / Jerôme Couture et Steve Jacob -- La guerre en election. Dynamiques electorales de la participation du Canada à la guerre contre Daech / Laura Pelletier et Justin Massie -- Un climat democratique? Le rôle de l'opinion publique dans l'adoption de la tarification du carbone dans les provinces canadiennes / David Houle -- La participation electorale comme manifestation de la resistence à la taxation. Le cas des municipalites quebecoises (2005-2013) / Jerôme Couture -- La politique de transparence des finances publiques. Un instrument d'amelioration democratique de l'action publique financiere? / Mohamed Djouldem -- Les acteurs politiques et le processus democratique. Perceptions du rôle du citoyen / Antonin Lacelle-Webster -- La parole en politique / Corinne Mellul -- La realisation des promesses des partis au Quebec, 1994-2014 / François Petry, Dominic Duval et Lisa Maureen Birch -- Expliquer l'ecart entre le discours du parti et celui du gouvernement / Jean Crête, Lisa-Maureen Birch et François Petry -- La demande pour des donnees probantes au sein de la fonction publique canadienne / Pierre-Olivier Bedard et Alexandra Mallett -- Expertise et ractivite democratique. L'influence des groupes d'interête dans le secteur environnemental quebecois / Marc Tremblay-Faulkner -- Think tanks et politiques publiques. La relation des elus avec l'IRIS et LIEDM à l'Assemblee nationale du Quebec / Guillaume Lamy -- Imputabilite et reactivite des experts. Une question d'acceptabilite sociale / Guy-Serge Côte -- Euro-think tank, acteur au coeur d'une gouvernance europeenne multiniveaux / Roseta Collura -- Conclusin : Reenchanter la democratie et la fabrique des politiques publiques / Nathalie Schiffino.
    Note: "Centre d'analyse des politiques publiques"--Couverture
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  • 4
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    Morgantown : West Virginia University Press
    ISBN: 1946684694 , 9781946684691
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
    Edition: First edition
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Smell and history
    DDC: 152.1/6609
    Keywords: Smell Social aspects ; Smell History ; Senses and sensation History ; Odors Social aspects ; Odors History ; MEDICAL ; Physiology ; SCIENCE ; Life Sciences ; Human Anatomy & Physiology ; Odors ; Odors ; Social aspects ; Senses and sensation ; Smell ; Smell ; Social aspects ; History
    Abstract: AcknowledgmentsFurther Reading; Sources and Permissions; Index
    Abstract: Intro; Contents; Editor's Introduction: Smelling the Past -- Mark M. Smith; Introduction: Why Smell the Past? -- Alain Corbin; 1. Scent and Sacrifice in the Early Christian World -- Susan Ashbrook Harvey; 2. Urban Smells and Roman Noses -- Neville Morley; 3. Medieval Smellscapes -- C. M. Woolgar; 4. Smelling the New World -- Holly Dugan; 5. Gender, Medicine, and Smell in Seventeenth-Century England -- Jennifer Evans; 6. Smell and Victorian England -- Jonathan Reinarz; 7. Reodorizing the Modern Age -- Robert Jütte; 8. Making "Others" Smell -- Mark M. Smith; Epilogue: Futures of Scents Past -- David Howes
    Note: Editor's introduction : smelling the past / Mark M. Smith -- Introduction : Why smell the past? / Alain Corbin -- Scent and sacrifice in the early Christian world / Susan Ashbrook Harvey -- Urban smells and Roman noses / Neville Morley -- Medieval smellscapes / C.M. Woolgar -- Smelling the New World / Holly Dugan -- Gender, medicine, and smell in seventeenth-century England / Jennifer Evans -- Smell and Victorian England / Jonathan Reinarz -- Reodorizing the modern age / Robert Jütte -- Making "others" smell / Mark M. Smith -- Epilogue : futures of scents past / David Howes , Includes index
    URL: Volltext  (lizenzpflichtig)
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  • 5
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    Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse | Leuven, Belgium : Universitaire Pers Leuven
    ISBN: 9789461662996 , 9461662998 , 9789461662989 , 946166298X , 9789462701939
    Language: Dutch
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (1 PDF (unpaged)))
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 428.023931
    Keywords: Literature Translations ; Dutch language Handbooks, manuals, etc Translating ; Translating and interpreting Handbooks, manuals, etc ; Translating and interpreting ; Translations ; Handbooks and manuals ; Literature
    Abstract: Onmisbaar handboek voor de literair vertaler. Alles verandert altijd is een onmisbaar instrument voor de literair vertaler in opleiding en de beginnende en gevorderde professional bij het vertalen in en uit het Nederlands. Voor het eerst worden hier alle belangrijke aspecten van het literair vertalen helder en bevattelijk samengebracht: de zakelijke en financiële aspecten, de basiskennis en vaardigheden die deze activiteit veronderstelt, de algemene kernbegrippen en uitdagingen, het vertalen van de traditionele literaire genres, maar ook van kinder- en jeugdliteratuur, literaire non-fictie en filosofie, en de 'nazorg' in de vorm van revisie, marketing en promotie. Het boek is een initiatief van het Expertisecentrum Literair Vertalen (ELV), en bevat bijdragen van 23 vertaalexperts (wetenschappers, opleiders en vertalers), onder eindredactie van Lieven D'hulst en Chris Van de Poel. Beiden zijn lid van het wetenschappelijk comite van het ELV, een partnerschap van de Taalunie, de KU Leuven en de Universiteit Utrecht, in samenwerking met het Nederlands Letterenfonds en het Vlaams Fonds voor de Letteren
    Note: Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE , Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 6
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    Online Resource
    Liverpool : Liverpool University Press
    ISBN: 9781789624342 , 1789624347
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 182 pages)
    Series Statement: Romantic reconfigurations. Studies in literature and culture 1780-1850
    DDC: 821/.6
    Keywords: Smith, Charlotte Criticism and interpretation ; Smith, Charlotte ; Sonnets, English History and criticism ; Elegiac poetry, English History and criticism ; Sonnets, English ; Elegiac poetry, English ; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Abstract: Introduction -- The eighteenth-century sonnet -- Tradition -- Innovation -- Wider prospect -- Botany to Beachy Head.
    Abstract: "Exploring Charlotte Smith's Elegiac Sonnets, author Bethan Roberts clarifies their 'place', understood in multiple ways, in literary history. It argues that Smith's work engages more deeply with tradition than has hitherto been realised and revises our understanding not only of Smith's career but also of the sonnet in eighteenth-century England"--
    Note: Book based on the author's PhD thesis from the University of LIverpool
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  • 7
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    Santa Barbara : Punctum Books | Baltimore, Md : Project MUSE
    ISBN: 9781950192298 , 1950192296 , 9781950192304 , 195019230X
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (pages cm)
    Edition: 1st ed
    Keywords: Interest (Philosophy) ; Intérêt (Philosophie) ; Literary essays ; Cultural studies ; Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology) ; LITERARY CRITICISM / General ; Interest (Philosophy)
    Abstract: "The term "interest" lacks a precise antonym. In English, we have "disinterested" and "uninteresting," but we want for a term that denotes robust opposition to interest. The same appears to hold true in every other language (as far as we know). Interest's missing antonym reflects not merely a widespread lexical oversight, but a misrecognition of interest's complete and exact meaning. More importantly, the idea that interest has no opposite expresses a certain refusal to acknowledge the power of the impulse to extinguish interest, for the self and for others. Why then do we foreclose interest's possibility, degrade our (and others') capacities to experience interest, and destroy interest's objects? Why do we decline what interest proffers - which includes creative and subjective being, thinking, and relating - in favor of more primitive modes of survival, thoughtlessness, and nonbeing? Why do relationships - with ourselves, with others, with objects - toward which genuine interest draws us seem sometimes, if not often, unbearable? These questions are difficult. Their answers, even more so. Misinterest: Essays, Pensées, and Dreams attempts to approach them in an honest way, without making them fascinating, mysterious, boring, obscurantist, or fascinatingly mysteriously boringly obscurantist. Outwardly, Misinterest is concerned with dreams and forgetting and Eros and soaring dogs and groups and suicidal suburban teenagers and sex and jury duty and Nazis and fathers and hatred and holy parrots and fundamentalists and plagues and other things that may or may not be interesting. Ultimately, however, it seeks, like Jules Renard, "en restant exact" (in remaining true/real), to shed light on the establishment of misinterest, missingness, and mystery where and when they need not be, and, thus, on the psychic, familial, and political forces that compel us not to be when and where we ought"--
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  • 8
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    Brooklyn, NY : punctum books | Baltimore, Md : Project MUSE
    ISBN: 9781950192175 , 1950192172 , 9781950192182 , 1950192180
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Liquids Philosophy ; Matter Philosophy ; Philosophy, Modern ; Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology ; Molecular biology ; Anges ; Angels
    Abstract: If we lived in a liquid world, the concept of a "machine" would make no sense. Liquid life is metaphor and apparatus that discusses the consequences of thinking, working, and living through liquids. It is an irreducible, paradoxical, parallel, planetary-scale material condition, unevenly distributed spatially, but temporally continuous. It is what remains when logical explanations can no longer account for the experiences that we recognize as part of "being alive."Liquid Life references a third-millennial understanding of matter that seeks to restore the agency of the liquid soul for an ecological era, which has been banished by reductionist, "brute" materialist discourses and mechanical models of life. Offering an alternative worldview of the living realm through a "new materialist" and "liquid" study of matter, Armstrong conjures forth examples of creatures that do not obey mechanistic concepts like predictability, efficiency, and rationality. With the advent of molecular science, an increasingly persuasive ontology of liquid technologies can be identified. Through the lens of lifelike dynamic droplets, the agency for these systems exists at the interfaces between different fields of matter/energy that respond to highly local effects, with no need for a central organizing system.Liquid Life seeks an alternative partnership between humanity and the natural world. It provokes a re-invention of the languages of the living realm to open up alternative spaces for exploration, including contributor Rolf Hughes' "angelology" of language, which explores the transformative invocations of prose poetry, and Simone Ferracina's graphical notations that help shape our concepts of metabolism, upcycling, and designing with fluids. A conceptual and practical toolset for thinking and designing, liquid life reunites us with the irreducible "soul substance" of living things, which will neither be simply "solved," nor go away
    Note: Includes bibliographical references , English
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  • 9
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    Online Resource
    Santa Barbara : Punctum Books | Baltimore, Md : Project MUSE
    ISBN: 9781950192311 , 1950192318
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (pages cm)
    Edition: 1st ed
    DDC: 028.9
    Keywords: Books and reading ; Livres et lecture ; Literary studies: general ; Books and reading
    Abstract: "What do we do when we read? Reading can be an act of consumption or an act of creation. Our "work reading" overlaps with our "pleasure reading," and yet these two modes of reading engage with different parts of the self. It is sometimes passive, sometimes active, and can even be an embodied form. The contributors to this volume share their own histories of reading in order to reveal the shared pleasure that lies in this most solitary of acts - which is also, paradoxically, the act of most complete plenitude. Many of the contributors engage in academic writing, and several publish in other genres, including poetry and fiction; some contributors maintain an active online presence. All are engaged with reading's capacity to stimulate and excite as well as to frustrate and confuse. The synergies and tensions of online reading and print reading animate these thirteen contributions, generating a sense of shared community. Together, the authors open their libraries to us. This is how we read. Table of Contents // Suzanne Conklin Akbari / "Introduction: Practicing Reading, Reading Practice" Irina Dumitrescu / "Reading Lessons" Anna Wilson / "I Like Knowing What is Going to Happen" Suzanne Conklin Akbari / "Read It Out Loud" Jessica Hammer / "From When We Read" Lochin Brouillard / "De Vita Lochini, or Commentary on a Life of Reading" Chris Piuma / "How I Read" Stephanie Bahr / "How I Read, a History; or 'San Francisco Banking Contains No Trans Fats'" Alexandra Atiya / "Text to Speech" Jonathan Hsy / "Phantom Sounds" Kirsty Schut / "On Not Being a Voracious Reader" Kaitlin Heller / "Sleeping Under the Mountain" Jennifer Jordan / "Reading to Forget, Reading to Remember" Brantley Bryant / "Best Practice Tips and Strategies for Academic Reading to Maximize Your Time and Productivity" Kaitlin Heller / "Afterword: The Parlor Scene""--
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  • 10
    ISBN: 9781641892391 , 1641892390
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 203 pages :) , illustrations
    Series Statement: Borderlines
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Fluid bodies and bodily fluids in premodern Europe
    Keywords: To 1500 ; Human body Religious aspects ; Human figure in art ; Human body in literature ; Human body Symbolic aspects To 1500 ; History ; Human beings in art ; HISTORY / Renaissance ; Human body in literature ; Human body - Religious aspects ; Human body - Symbolic aspects ; Human figure in art ; History ; Corps humain dans l'art ; Corps humain dans la littérature ; Corps humain dans l'art - Technique ; Corps humain - Aspect religieux ; Europe
    Abstract: For medieval and early modern thinkers, the apparent solidity of the body only came about through the dynamic interplay of a host of fluidities in constant flux. This interdisciplinary collection of essays, containing chapters from specialists in history, art history, medical history, and literature, examines how the intimately familiar language of the body served as a convenient medium through which to imagine and describe transformations of the larger world, both for the better and also for the worse. Its individual contributors demonstrate the myriad ways in which rethinking the human body was one way to approach rethinking the social, political, and religious realities of the world from the Middle Ages until the early modern period
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction : bodies, fluidity, and change / Michael David Barbezat and Anne M. Scott -- Where did Margery Kempe cry? / Anthony Bale -- Elusive tears : lamentation and impassivity in fifteenth- century passion iconography / Hugh Hudson -- Catherine's tears : diplomatic corporeality, affective performance, and gender at the sixteenth-century French court / Susan Broomhall -- Piers Plowman and the blood of brotherhood / Anne M. Scott -- Performative asceticism and exemplary effluvia : blood, tears, and rapture in fourteenth-century German Dominican literature / Samuel Baudinette -- "Bloody business:" passions and regulation of sanguinity in William Shakespeare's Macbeth and King Lear / Karin Sellberg -- Saintly blood : absence, presence, and the alter Christus / Diana Hiller -- The treatment of the body in anatomy lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp / Helen Gramotnev -- Augustine on the flesh of the resurrection body in the De fide et symbolo : origen, Manichaeism, and Augustine's developing thought regarding human physical perfection / Michael David Barbezat
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  • 11
    ISBN: 0820354023 , 9780820354026
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 221 pages)
    Series Statement: Gender and slavery
    Parallel Title: Available in another form
    Parallel Title: Available in another form
    DDC: 306.77086/25
    Keywords: Women slaves Social conditions ; Slavery History ; Slaves Sexual behavior ; History ; Slaves Social conditions ; Slavery ; Slaves ; Social conditions ; Women slaves ; Social conditions ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy ; History ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural ; America ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "Editors Harris and Berry first conceived of this discussion -- one of the history and relationship between slavery and sexuality -- at a conference at the University of Texas at Austin in October 2011. The meeting encouraged a series of healthy dialogues with the general public, seasoned scholars, and those just beginning to learn about and research these topics of slavery and sexual intimacy. A select group of scholars met again in the fall of 2012 in New York to continue the conversation. This volume is a result of these ongoing conversations, with additional scholarly voices added as the project evolved. The volume places sexuality at the center of slavery studies in the Americas (the United States, Carribbean, and South America). In many mainstream histories of slavery, the editors argue that scholars have marginalized or simply overlooked the importance of sexual practices. But sexual intimacy comprised a core terrain of struggle between slaveholders and the enslaved. The essays explore consensual sexual intimacy and expression within slave communities, as well as sexual relationships across lines of race, status, and power. Contributors explore sexuality as a tool of control, exploitation and repression, and also as an expression of autonomy, resistance, and defiance. Essayists include Jim Downs, Sowande' Mustakeem, Bianca Premo, Marisa J. Guentes, Trevor Burnard, Jessica Millward, Leslie Harris, Thomas Foster, David Doddington, and Stephanie Jones-Rogers. All essays except those by Foster and Camp are new and were expressly written for this volume"-- Provided by publisher
    Abstract: Introduction / Daina Ramey Berry and Leslie M. Harris -- Early European views of African bodies : beauty / Stephanie M.H. Camp -- Toiling in the fields : valuing female slaves in Jamaica, 1674-1788 / Trevor Burnard -- Reading the specter of racialized gender in eighteenth-century Bridgetown, Barbados / Marisa J. Fuentes -- As if she were my own : love and law in the slave society of eighteenth-century Peru / Bianca Premo -- Wombs of liberation : petitions, law, and the black woman's body in Maryland, 1780-1858 / Jessica Millward -- Rethinking sexual violence and the marketplace of slavery : white women, the slave market, and enslaved people's sexualized bodies in the nineteenth-century South / Stephanie Jones-Rogers -- The sexual abuse of black men under American slavery / Thomas A. Foster -- Manhood, sex, and power in antebellum slave communities / David Doddington -- What's love got to do with it? : concubinage and enslaved women and girls in the antebellum South / Brenda E. Stevenson -- When the present is past : writing the history of sexuality and slavery / Jim Downs.
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  • 12
    ISBN: 9781609175771
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (pages cm)
    Series Statement: International race and education series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.38/896073
    Keywords: African American boys Education ; African American men History ; African American men Social conditions ; African American men Education ; History ; African American boys ; Education ; African American men ; African American men ; Education ; African American men ; Social conditions
    Abstract: Recollection, Regret, and Foreboding in Frederick Douglass's Fourth of July Orations of 1852 and 1875 / Bernard K. Duffy and Richard D. Besel -- Fighting the Devil with Fire: The Political Rhetoric of Henry McNeal Turner during Reconstruction / Andre E. Johnson -- Fanning the Flame: African American Leaders and the Agitation for Change, 1918-1954 / Richard W. Leeman -- Martin Luther King Jr.'s ""I Have a Dream"" and the Politics of Cultural Memory / Bernard K. Duffy and Richard D. Besel -- The Biographical and Rhetorical Transformations of Malcolm X / An ApostilRobert E. Terrill -- Stokely Carmichael and the Rhetorical Articulation of Black Power / Richard D. Besel and Bernard K. Duffy -- Barack Obama, the Rhetoric of Racial Reconciliation, and Donald Trump's audience: realizing the Promise of the ""A More Perfect Union Address / David A. Frank -- Vignette -- Black Male College Students with Disabilities: The Role of Self-Determination in College Completion / Michell L. Temple, Teresita Warren, and J. Michael Anderson -- Educational Emancipation: Liberating African American Male Students at PWIs / Jeffrey K. Coleman -- Qualitative Research Approach When Studying Black Males / Robert G. Bryant and Georj Lewis -- How Schools Fail Black Boys (and Girls Too): Race, Gender, and Academic Trajectories from Kindergarten through Eighth Grade / Tomeka Davis -- Aberrations of ""Home"": Gay Neighborhoods and the Experiences of Community among GBQ Men of Color / Theodore Greene -- Vignette -- I Can Breathe: Transforming the Mind, Body, and Spirit of Black Males / Rana Walker -- Fatherhood, Resilience, and Black Men's Mental Health: Exploring the Contributions of Black Homeschooling Fathers / Taura Taylor -- Improved Health Care for Black Males as a Function of Increased Graduation Rates: A Scholar-Servanthood Pedagogical Approach / Brent E. Johnson -- The Epigenetics of Being Black and Feeling Blue: Understanding African American Vulnerability to Disease / Darron Smith -- Djangos Chained: The Struggle for Freedom / James H. Campbell -- Vignette -- Understanding Black Male Learning Styles / Jawanza Kunjufu -- The Black Male Founders of Emancipatory Education: Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. DuBois, Booker T. Washington, Carter G. Woodson, Molefi Asante, Jawanza Kunjufu, William Cross, and Richard Majors / Theodore S. Ransaw -- Agency and Grit: Fostering the Growth of Black Male Students to Achieve Greatness / Anindya Kundu -- Black learners' perseverance with mathematics: a qualitative metasynthesis / Robert Q. Berry III and Kateri Thunder -- We real cool: toward a theory of Black masculine literacies / David E. Kirkland and Austin Jackson -- Culturally sustained debaters: understanding the legacy learned literacies of young Black men / Raven Jones Stanbrough -- Perseverance will prevail: three young Black males whose lives matter / Stuart Rhoden -- Examining campus climate for African American males at predominantly White institutions / James Bridgeforth -- No positive role models: growing up in prison / Louis Napoleon -- Vignette
    Abstract: Victimized victim: the consciousness of Black femininity in the image of masculinity / LaWanda M. Simpkins -- Black male suicide: inward-expressed frustration and aggression / Kimya N. Dennis -- The media assault on the black male: echoes of public lynching and killing the modern terror of Jack Johnson / Armondo R. Collins -- A preliminary examination of hegemonic masculinity: definitional transference of Black masculinity affecting lethal tactics against Black males / Jack S. Monell -- Hoovers and night crawlers: when outside in becomes inside out / Steven Randolph Cureton -- Vignette -- Words, beats, and my life / Mazi A. E. Mutafa -- Dopeboys and mic fiends: spoken word poetry as a performance of Black masculinity / Crystal Leigh Endsley -- Discussing suicide without being crucified: the new Renaissance of mental health in Hip Hop / Edward J. Smith -- Mama, am I Hip Hop?: unpacking the intersections of race, gender, and culture with a young Black boy / Chelda Smith Kondo -- Vignette -- All eyes on me: culturally responsive approaches to engaging revenue-playing Black male student-athletes who attend PWIs / Ronald W. Whittaker II and Adriel A. Hilton -- African American male students' perceptions that contribute to their academic success / Devin L. Randolph -- Holla if you hear me? -- supporting African American males at a predominantly White institution in the Midwest: a tale from Southeast Missouri State University / C. P. Gause -- The effects of racial exclusionary disciplinary practices on African American male students: alternatives to suspensions and expulsions / Tyree Robinson -- Black males in higher education: a multiple case study approach to success and retention at the University of Texas at Austin / Gregory J. Vincent, [and three others] -- Vignette -- Where do we go from here?: we need a revolution / C. P. Gause.
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  • 13
    ISBN: 9781613765531
    Language: English
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Science for the people
    RVK:
    Keywords: Science for the People (Organization) History ; Science for the People (Organization) ; Science Political aspects 20th century ; History ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; General ; History ; SCIENCE ; General ; Science ; Political aspects ; United States ; Electronic books ; Science for the People ; Wissenschaftskritik ; Wissenschaftspolitik
    Abstract: Introduction : science for the people, the 1970s and today -- Science, power, and ideology / Ben Allen and Sigrid Schmalzer -- Disrupting the "AAA$" / Colin Garvey and Daniel S. Chard -- Militarism / Daniel S. Chard -- Biology and medicine / Alyssa Botelho -- Race and gender / Alyssa Botelho -- Agriculture, ecology, and food / Sigrid Schmalzer -- Technology / Thomas Conner and Sigrid Schmalzer -- Energy and environment / Ben Allen, Alyssa Botelho, and Daniel S. Chard -- Science for the people and the world / Daniel S. Chard.
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  • 14
    ISBN: 1469636271 , 146963628X , 9781469636276 , 9781469636283
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (pages cm)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Devotions and desires
    DDC: 306.70973
    Keywords: Sex customs History 20th century ; Sex Religious aspects 20th century ; History ; Religion and politics History 20th century ; Americans Sexual behavior 20th century ; History ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; RELIGION ; Sexuality & Gender Studies ; Religion ; Religion and politics ; Sex customs ; Sex ; Religious aspects ; History ; United States Religion 20th century ; History ; United States
    Abstract: More than missionary: doing the histories of religion and sexuality together/ Gillian Frank, Bethany Moreton, and Heather R. White -- Winnifred Wygal's flock: same-sex desire and Christian faith in the 1920s / Kathi Kern -- Subversive spiritualities: yoga's complex role in the narrative of sex and religion in the twentieth-century United States / Andrea R. Jain -- Purity and population: American Jews, marriage, and sexuality / Rebecca L. Davis -- Sex is holy and mysterious: the vision of early twentieth-century Catholic sex education reformers / James P. McCartin -- Real true buds: celibacy and same-sex desire across the color line in Father Divine's peace mission movement / Judith Weisenfeld -- Sexual diplomacy: U.S. Catholics' transnational anti-birth control activism in postwar Japan / Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci -- Modernizing decency: citizens for decent literature and covert Catholic activism in Cold War America / Whitney Strub -- Family planning is a Christian duty: religion, population control, and the pill in the 1960s / Samira K. Mehta -- From women's rights to religious freedom: the Women's League for Conservative Judaism and the politics of abortion, 1970-1982 / Rachel Kranson -- Fascinating and happy: Mormon women, the LDS church, and the politics of sexual conservatism / Neil J. Young -- The making of gay and lesbian rabbis in reconstructionist Judaism, 1979-1992 / Rebecca T. Alpert and Jacob J. Staub -- Founding new Sodom: radical gay communalist spirituality, 1973-1976 / Daniel Rivers -- We who must die demand a miracle: Christmas 1989 at the metropolitan community church of San Francisco / Lynne Gerber
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    Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press
    ISBN: 1469641003 , 1469641011 , 9781469641010 , 9781469641003
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (pages cm)
    Series Statement: The David J. Weber series in the new borderlands history
    Series Statement: David J. Weber series in the new borderlands history
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Martino, Gina M Women at War in the Borderlands of the Early American Northeast
    DDC: 305.40974
    Keywords: Women soldiers History ; Sex role History ; Sex role History ; Women History ; Women soldiers History ; Women History ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Women's Studies ; Sex role ; Women ; Women soldiers ; History ; North America ; New France ; Northeastern States ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Among the Vanguard; Part I: ​Encountering Martial Women; 1. Necessary to Abide: Gendered Spheres and Spaces in New England's Wars; 2. Everyone Ran to Help: Rank and Gender in the Wars of New France; 3. Deploying Amazons: Women and Wartime Propaganda; Part II: ​Redrafting Martial Women; 4. Appropriate Combatants: Women in the New Imperial Military Societies of the Northeastern Borderlands; 5. Resolute Motherhood: Memories of Women's War Making in New England; Epilogue: Heroines, Saviors, and Curiosities; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E
    Abstract: FG; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W
    Abstract: "Across the borderlands of the early American Northeast, New England, New France, and native nations deployed women with surprising frequency to the front lines of wars that determined control of North America. Far from serving as passive helpmates in a private, domestic sphere, women assumed wartime roles as essential public actors, wielding muskets, hatchets, and makeshift weapons while fighting for their families, communities, and nations. Revealing the fundamental importance of martial womanhood in this era, Gina M. Martino places borderlands women in a broad context of empire, cultural exchange, violence, and nation building, demonstrating how women's war making was embedded in national and imperial strategies of expansion and resistance. As Martino shows, women's participation in warfare was not considered transgressive; rather it was integral to traditional gender ideologies of the period, supporting rather than subverting established systems of gender difference"--
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (1 PDF (x, 90 pages)) , music
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version
    Keywords: Tales ; Tumbuka language Texts ; Tumbuka (African people) Folklore ; Folklore Performance ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Reading these tales from Northern Malawi readers come close to watching an original performance and the tales and the songs encapsulate the essence of Malawian culture. The authors presentation, using performance directions, allows the reader to see and hear old Nyaviyuyi as she, through word, voice, tone and gesture, mocks nosy wives, and celebrates the devotion of friendship and parental love. The author has made a further contribution to the topic by including musical notations for the songs
    Abstract: The tales in English -- The tales in Chitumbuka -- The songs
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 19-20) , Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE , English and Tumbuka
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    ISBN: 0813052084 , 0813053463 , 9780813052083 , 9780813053462
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (pages cm)
    Series Statement: Cultural heritage studies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Mulrooney, Margaret M., 1966- Race, Place, and Memory
    DDC: 305.8009756/27
    Keywords: African Americans History 19th century ; Riots History 19th century ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) ; African Americans ; Race relations ; Riots ; History ; Wilmington (N.C.) Race relations ; North Carolina ; Wilmington ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Rising tide, 1740-1880 -- Port in a storm, 1840-1880 -- Slack water, 1880-1920 -- Ebb and flow, 1920-1990 -- Soundings
    Abstract: This book uses the 1998 commemoration of the Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 as a springboard to explore the historic roots of modern disagreements over cultural heritage
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    Grahamstown, South Africa : NISC (Pty) Ltd, on behalf of the African Humanities Program
    ISBN: 1920033246 , 9781920033248
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 152 pages)
    Series Statement: African humanities series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.4496
    Keywords: Language and culture ; Discourse analysis, Literary ; African literature History and criticism ; African literature (English) History and criticism ; African literature (English) ; fast ; (OCoLC)fst00799849 ; Discourse analysis, Literary ; fast ; (OCoLC)fst00894944 ; Language and culture ; fast ; (OCoLC)fst00992135 ; Language and languages ; Political aspects ; fast ; (OCoLC)fst00992197 ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy ; bisacsh ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural ; bisacsh ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture ; bisacsh ; Africa ; fast ; (OCoLC)fst01239509 ; African literature ; fast ; (OCoLC)fst00799832 ; Criticism, interpretation, etc ; fast ; (OCoLC)fst01411635 ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; LITERARY CRITICISM ; African ; African literature ; African literature (English) ; Discourse analysis, Literary ; Language and culture ; Language and languages ; Political aspects ; Criticism, interpretation, etc ; Africa Languages ; Political aspects ; Africa ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Michael Andindilile in The Anglophone Literary-Linguistic Continuum: English and Indigenous Languages in African Literary Discourse interrogates Obi Wali's (1963) prophecy that continued use of former colonial languages in the production of African literature could only lead to 'sterility', as African literatures can only be written in indigenous African languages. In doing so, Andindilile critically examines selected of novels of Achebe of Nigeria, Ngũgĩ of Kenya, Gordimer of South Africa and Farah of Somalia and shows that, when we pay close attention to what these authors represent about their African societies, and the way they integrate African languages, values, beliefs and cultures, we can discover what constitutes the Anglophone African literary-linguistic continuum. This continuum can be defined as variations in the literary usage of English in African literary discourse, with the language serving as the base to which writers add variations inspired by indigenous languages, beliefs, cultures and, sometimes, nation-specific experiences
    Abstract: The case for an Anglophone African literary-linguistic continuum -- Achebe and Anglophone African literary discourse -- Ngũgĩ, nativism, English and translingualism -- Gordimer, English, race and cross-cultural translation -- Farah, English and cosmopolitanism -- Anglophonism, the novel and the African literary-linguistic continuum.
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    Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press
    ISBN: 1469640899 , 1469640902 , 9781469640891 , 9781469640907
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (pages cm)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Hartog, Hendrik The Trouble with Minna : A Case of Slavery and Emancipation in the Antebellum North
    DDC: 306.3/6209749
    Keywords: African Americans Legal status, laws, etc ; History ; Liability (Law) History ; Slaves Social conditions ; History ; Slavery Law and legislation ; History ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Slavery ; African Americans ; Legal status, laws, etc ; Liability (Law) ; Slavery ; Law and legislation ; Slaves ; Social conditions ; History ; New Jersey
    Abstract: A mere voluntary courtesy -- Practicing gradual emancipation -- Who is enslaved? -- Inferences and speculations
    Abstract: "Hendrik Hartog uses a forgotten 1840 case to explore the regime of gradual emancipation that took place in New Jersey over the first half of the nineteenth century. In Minna's case, white people fought over who would pay for the costs of caring for a dependent, apparently enslaved, woman. Hartog marks how the peculiar language mobilized by the debate -- about care as a "mere voluntary courtesy" -- became routine in a wide range of subsequent cases about "good Samaritans." Using Minna's case as a springboard, Hartog explores the statutes, situations, and conflicts that helped produce a regime where slavery was usually but not always legal and where a supposedly enslaved person may or may not have been legally free"--
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    Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press
    ISBN: 1469641070 , 1469641089 , 9781469641072 , 9781469641089
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (pages cm)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Quintana, Ryan A. (Ryan Alexander) Making a Slave State
    DDC: 305.8009757
    Keywords: Human geography ; Human ecology ; Slaves Economic conditions ; Slaves Social conditions ; Slavery History 19th century ; Slavery History 18th century ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Slavery ; Human ecology ; Human geography ; Politics and government ; Race relations ; Slavery ; Slaves ; Economic conditions ; Slaves ; Social conditions ; History ; South Carolina Race relations ; South Carolina Politics and government ; South Carolina History ; South Carolina
    Abstract: The within enemy: slaves and the production of South Carolina's early state -- The strength of this country: securing and rebuilding the state in the Revolutionary era -- Their intentions were to ambuscade and surround me: the necessity of slave mobility -- This negro thoroughfare: the meaning of black movement -- With the labor of these slaves: producing the modern state
    Abstract: "Beginning in the early eighteenth century and moving through the post-War of 1812 internal improvements boom, Quintana highlights the surprising ways enslaved men and women sat at the center of South Carolina's earliest political development, materially producing the state's infrastructure and early governing practices, while also challenging and reshaping both through their day-to-day movements, from the mundane to the rebellious. Focusing on slaves' lives and labors, Quintana illuminates how black South Carolinians not only created the early state, but also established their own extralegal economic sites, social and cultural havens, and independent communities along South Carolina's roads, rivers, and canals"--
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    Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press
    ISBN: 1469647044 , 1469647052 , 9781469647043 , 9781469647050
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.896/0730769
    Keywords: Coal mines and mining History ; Migration, Internal History 20th century ; African Americans Social conditions ; African Americans History ; African Americans Social conditions ; African Americans History ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Ethnic Studies ; African American Studies ; African Americans ; African Americans ; Social conditions ; Coal mines and mining ; Migration, Internal ; Race relations ; Social conditions ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; History ; Appalachian Region, Southern Social conditions ; History ; Appalachian Region, Southern Race relations ; Kentucky Race relations ; Southern Appalachian Region ; Kentucky ; United States
    Abstract: The coming of the coal industry -- The great migration escape -- Home -- Children, and black children -- The colored school -- A change gone come -- Gone home
    Abstract: "Karida L. Brown's Gone Home offers a much-needed corrective to the current white-washing of Appalachia. In telling the stories of Appalachian African Americans living and working in steel and coal towns, Brown offers a deep and sweeping look at race, the formation of identity, changes in politics and policy, and black migration in the region and beyond"--
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    Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press
    ISBN: 1469640562 , 1469640570 , 9781469640563 , 9781469640570
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (pages cm)
    Series Statement: Critical indigeneities
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Teves, Stephanie Nohelani Defiant Indigeneity : The Politics of Hawaiian Performance
    DDC: 305.899/42
    Keywords: Hawaiians Government relations ; Hawaiians Social conditions ; Hawaiians Social life and customs ; Hawaiians Ethnic identity ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; Hawaiians ; Ethnic identity ; Hawaiians ; Government relations ; Hawaiians ; Social conditions ; Hawaiians ; Social life and customs ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Throwing mangoes at tourists -- How to do things with aloha -- F-you aloha, I love you -- Bloodline is all I need and defiant indigeneity on the West Side -- Aloha in drag -- The afterlife of Princess Ka'iulani -- Bound in place: queer indigenous mobilities and "the old paniolo way" -- Aloha as social connection
    Abstract: "...Theorizes Indigeneity as a performative process, challenging the notion that it can be understood in terms of a prescribed set of unchanging cultural signs. ... Indigenous identity is made up of shared community understandings about belonging that is performed and articulated in multiple settings and contexts. For Kanaka Maoli people, Teves shows that Indigeneity is represented and articulated through the idea of "aloha," a concept that is at once the most significant and most misunderstood word in the Hawaiian lexicon" --
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    Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press
    ISBN: 1469636387 , 1469636379 , 9781469636382 , 9781469636375
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (pages cm)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Mehta, Samira K Beyond Chrismukkah : The Christian-Jewish Interfaith Family in the United States
    DDC: 306.84/30973
    Keywords: Jews Identity ; Interfaith families ; Children of interfaith marriage ; Interfaith marriage ; RELIGION ; Christian Rituals & Practice ; General ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; Children of interfaith marriage ; Interfaith families ; Interfaith marriage ; Jews ; Identity ; United States ; Electronic books
    Abstract: To stem a rising tide: interfaith marriage and religious institutions -- Blended or transcended: interfaith families in popular culture, 1970-1980 -- One roof, one religion: the campaign for a Jewish (interfaith) family -- They sure will be of minority groups: interreligious, interracial, multiethnic Jewish families -- Chrismukkah: millennial multiculturalism -- Living the interfaith family life: dual religious heritages shaping family cultures -- Conclusion. for the sake of the children: identity, practice, and the adult children of intermarriage
    Abstract: "Drawing on historical research, ethnography, and original interviews, Beyond Chrismukkah describes and analyzes how interfaith Christian-Jewish families were understood, viewed, and treated in the larger American social milieu from 1965 through the present. [Mehta] shows how during the latter half of the twentieth century, interfaith marriage was subject to much the same dynamic and dramatic change that took place generally in American culture: from 1965 to 2010, the rate of intermarriage for American Jews rose from less than 10% to its current rate of between 40-50%. She argues that the understanding of ethnicity, and, in particular, the turn to multiculturalism in the 1990s, generated significant cultural and political change over time."--
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    Washington, D.C : World Bank
    ISBN: 9781464812828
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: World Bank E-Library Archive
    Series Statement: Policy research report
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Moving for prosperity: global migration and labor markets
    DDC: 331.6/2
    Keywords: Emigration and immigration Economic aspects ; Emigration and immigration Government policy ; Foreign workers ; Labor market ; Labor mobility
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    Series Statement: Other Public Sector Study
    Abstract: In order to understand a country as large and diverse as Russia, it is extremely important to consider spatial patterns of economic development. As Russia looks for new drivers of economic growth, it is important to understand the structural conditions that have defined economic development in Russia's regions. This report uses the Economic Potential Index (EPI) methodology to identify the conditions that drive regional development. Economic potential is the level of productivity that is possible for a region to achieve given its structural endowments, which are characteristics that are hard to alter in the short run. The methodology used in this report combines quantitative analysis of drivers of productivity across regions with in-depth case studies that focus on the role of regional governments and institutions in converting endowments into economic outcomes. This methodology generates insights that are relevant for both national and regional governments. The first chapter of this report provides an overview of regional development in Russia over the last 25 years and identifies "Russia-specific" national structural conditions that may affect regional development. The second chapter discusses the results of an assessment of economic potential at the regional level and the factors that shape it in Russia. The third chapter focuses on the role of national and regional governance, policy, and institutions in promoting economic development of the regions. The final chapter proposes policy priorities for both regional and national authorities
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    Series Statement: World Bank E-Library Archive
    Series Statement: Other Health Study
    Abstract: At present rates, the global 2030 Universal Health Coverage (UHC) targets under the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals will not be met. Urgent action is needed to speed progress in the two dimensions of UHC, health service coverage and financial protection, and to ensure that no one is left behind. What can be done? First, countries can learn from past experience. This report identifies a set of factors common among countries that made outstanding progress on selected service coverage and financial protection indicators between 2000 and 2015. By adapting proven approaches to their own settings, and by addressing stubborn implementation bottlenecks, countries can accelerate progress towards UHC. Second, even as they benefit from models of success, countries must prepare to manage deeper health system transformation now on the horizon. Spurred by economic, technological, demographic, and epidemiologic forces, these transformations will reshape the landscape in which countries pursue their 2030 UHC goals, creating new risks but also opportunities
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    Series Statement: Knowledge Economy Study
    Abstract: Coding bootcamps are intensive short-term programs designed to train participants in programming skills to make them immediately employable. They combine characteristics of traditional vocational training programs with the intensity of military bootcamps for new recruits, intermingling socio emotional and tech skills learning in an intense and experiential manner, in what could be referred to as skills accelerators. The authors refer to coding bootcamps in this report as the ready-to-work model. The initiative aims to collect and share examples and lessons of bootcamps in emerging markets, and measure the impact of bootcamp training on youth employment in selected countries. The program seeks to establish a framework of best practice for future projects in technology upskilling in the developing world. This report highlights the results of a randomized controlled trial (RCT) carried out in Medellin (Colombia), complemented with qualitative studies in Beirut (Lebanon) and Nairobi (Kenya). This report is arranged as follows: Chapter 1 starts with introduction; Chapter 2 describes the intervention in Medellin,including the experimental allocation of training slots to the bootcamp; Chapters 3 and 4 present the qualitative studies in Beirut and Nairobi; The main findings from the three interventions are presented in Chapter 5; and lessons for future impact evaluations are described in Chapter 6
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    Series Statement: Economic Updates and Modeling
    Abstract: In 2017, the Philippines was among the top three growth performers in the East Asia region. Only Vietnam and China performed better. The Philippines growth performance slightly weakened in 2017 to 6.7 percent year-on-year from 6.9 percent in 2016. Growth was anchored in strong exports, while investment growth significantly slowed and consumption growth moderated. The Philippines' annual exports rose sharply in 2017 and became the main engine of economic growth, while imports continued to grow by double-digits. Investment growth slowed in 2017, following two consecutive years of rapid expansion, and climbing inflation slowed real wage growth and contributed to a moderation in private consumption growth
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    Series Statement: Water Papers
    Abstract: The report is an advocacy piece to raise awareness around the need to shift the typical way urban water has been managed and to share emerging principles and solutions that may improve urban water supply security in water scarce cities. It aims to promote successes, outline challenges and principles, and extract key lessons learned for future efforts. It builds on the experiences of over 20 water scarce cities and territories from five continents, which represent a diversity of situations and development levels. This report argues that WSS service providers, policy makers, and practitioners should look at their mandate and responsibilities in a new light, and seek to embrace integrated water resources management considerations. Drawing from successful experiences from around the world, it extracts several underlying management principles applied by effective utilities. The report then aims to demystify solutions to address urban water scarcity, comparing and contrasting related institutional, technological, economic and social aspects. It then concludes with cross-cutting considerations relevant to planners, water operators and policy makers of water scarce cities
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    Series Statement: Economic Updates and Modeling
    Abstract: This report reviews South Africa's recent economic and social developments. It underlines that South Africa's current economic rebound may not be sustained if the fundamental factors undermining its growth potential are not boldly addressed. This includes in particular income inequality, which fuels resource contestation, policy uncertainty and scare private investors of seeing their investments overly taxed and expropriated. Nevertheless, inequalities are increasingly driven by labor markets developments, as opposed to race or location of origin. Policy actions could accelerate a projected decline in inequalities resulting from greater access to education. Using a dynamic computable general equilibrium, the report simulates a number of policy scenarios until 2030. Simulation results suggests that continuing to address corruption, restoring policy certainty in mining, improving the competitiveness of strategic state-owned enterprises, further exposing South Africa's large conglomerates to foreign competition, and facilitating skilled immigration would raise labor demand and create the fiscal space needed to eventually build labor supply from the poor population through education and spatial integration reforms. By 2030, extreme poverty could be almost eradicated and inequalities significantly reduced. And as inequalities decline, the social contract would strengthen and likely encourage further private investment - a possibility not captured in the simulations
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    ISBN: 9781464812798
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Narayan, Ambar, author Fair progress?
    DDC: 331.12/72
    Keywords: Income ; Occupational mobility ; Social mobility
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    Series Statement: Poverty Assessment
    Abstract: Vietnam has achieved remarkable success in reducing poverty while controlling inequality. The country's broad-based growth reflects the government's focus on developing labor-intensive export sectors while investing heavily in human capital that saw the country exceed its peers. However, gains have been concentrated among the Kinh and Hoa ethnic majority, while minority groups have not only continued to experience poverty rates far above the national average, but have seen slower progress too. This report analyzes recent trends in poverty and shared prosperity. It presents the findings of the 2016 Vietnam household and living standards survey (VHLSS), highlighting important progress and identifying new challenges. The report is organized into two main sections. The first section reviews Vietnam's progress in reducing poverty and promoting share prosperity. It describes updated poverty and shared prosperity trends, the nature of economic mobility, and the drivers of poverty reduction. The second section - titled leaving no one behind is more forward-looking, starting by identifying major constraints faced by the poor, then proceeding to lay out challenges for moving the poverty and shared prosperity agenda going forward
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    Series Statement: Other Education Study
    Abstract: The skills for tomorrow's Jobs in Bangladesh attempts to address key skills challenges and identifyopportunities in the backdrop of fast technological and economic changes. It proposes mid to long-term strategic policy options that would contribute to economic growth and job creation in Bangladesh with a focus on post-secondary education and skills development sectors. It aims to inform the Government and the World Bank's jobs agenda. The study draws upon relevant literatures from international and national sources, the government's surveys and education statistics, and analytical works undertaken by the World Bank and other agencies. Moreover, the study was extensively informed and guided by knowledge and insights gathered through the experience from the World Bank funded operations and series of consultations on skills for future jobs with relevant stakeholders in Bangladesh
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    Series Statement: Economic Updates and Modeling
    Abstract: Industrial production and services growth remained resilient. Inflation has accelerated, primarily due to supply shocks. Monetary policy has been accommodative. Financial sector vulnerability is rising. With a tightening of prudential controls, lending rates are back to double digits. Despite significant recovery in both exports and remittances, the current account deficit widened sharply, driven by a surge in imports. The overall balance of payments swung into deficit for the first time since FY11. Consequently, the exchange rate has depreciated. Interventions to smoothen exchange rate adjustments have eroded foreign exchange reserves. The fiscal deficit has been contained as weak revenue growth was counterbalanced by even weaker growth in expenditures. GDP growth is projected in the 6.5-7 percent range in the medium-term, while macro stability will require heightened vigilance. Poverty reduction has continued but slowed. The amount of poverty reduction achieved by each percent of growth fell by a third. Extreme poverty is projected to fall modestly to 11-12 percent in the medium-term. Downside risks center on the solvency of banks and the run-up to elections elevating instability and policy uncertainty. Going forward, investment and innovation enabling reforms will be key to accelerating development progress
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    Series Statement: World Bank E-Library Archive
    Series Statement: Economic Updates and Modeling
    Abstract: The Economic Update (SEU) evaluates the recent (2016-17) growth performance and macroeconomic policies in Senegal, thus providing a basis for the policy dialog with the Government and other stakeholders. The first section of the Economic Update evaluates the drivers of growth and the macroeconomic framework. Three-year perspectives are also included, underlining risks and challenges. The second section evaluates the agricultural sector in more detail focusing on the recent evolution of the agriculture sector and on the impact of public sector involvement
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    Washington, DC : Gallaudet University Press
    ISBN: 9781563686863 , 1563686864
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Cooper, Audrey C Deaf to the Marrow
    DDC: 305.908209597
    Keywords: Social participation Vietnam ; Deaf Political activity ; Vietnam ; Vietnam ; Social participation ; Deaf Political activity ; Deaf Political activity ; Social participation ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; Deaf ; Political activity ; Social participation ; Vietnam ; Electronic books
    Abstract: 6 HCMSL-Based Citizenship and Market-Socialist Futures: Interactions in the Disability Marketplace7 Conclusion; References; Index; *; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12; 13; 14; 15; 16; 17; 18; 19; 20; 21; 22; 23; 24; 25; 26; 27; 28; 1.; 2.; 3.; 4.; 5.; 6.; 7
    Abstract: Foreword; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and Acronyms; Research Areas in Việt Nam; Introduction: Signed Language as Social Participation and National Contribution; 1 Histories and Political Economies of Language and Literacy; 2 Putting the Study of Signed Language and State Formation in Perspective; 3 Deaf Education and Deaf Social Organizing: Sites of Social Inclusion and Exclusion; 4 Being Vietnamese and Điủc Tủy: Negotiating Sociopolitical Visions through Active Linguistic Citize; 5 Postreunification Deaf Marginalization, Deaf-Led Social Change, and Disability-Oriented Developmen
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    ISBN: 9781612494753 , 1612494757
    Language: Spanish
    Pages: Online Ressource
    Series Statement: Purdue studies in Romance literatures (PSRL) volume 68
    Series Statement: Purdue studies in Romance literatures volume 68
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als García Liendo, Javier Intelectual y la cultura de masas
    DDC: 306.0980904
    Keywords: Arguedas, Jose María Political and social views ; Rama, Angel Political and social views ; Arguedas, José María ; Rama, Angel ; 1900-1999 ; Arguedas, Jose María Political and social views ; Rama, Angel Political and social views ; Rama, Angel Political and social views ; Arguedas, Jose María Political and social views ; Arguedas, José María ; Rama, Angel ; Communication Technological innovations ; History ; 20th century ; South America ; Printing Social aspects ; History ; 20th century ; South America ; Indians of South America Social conditions ; 20th century ; Andes Region ; Social change History ; 20th century ; Andes Region ; Social change History ; 20th century ; South America ; Popular culture History ; 20th century ; Andes Region ; Popular culture History ; 20th century ; South America ; Printing Social aspects 20th century ; History ; Indians of South America Social conditions 20th century ; Social change History 20th century ; Social change History 20th century ; Popular culture History 20th century ; Popular culture History 20th century ; Communication Technological innovations 20th century ; History ; Social change History 20th century ; Social change History 20th century ; Popular culture History 20th century ; Popular culture History 20th century ; Communication Technological innovations 20th century ; History ; Indians of South America Social conditions 20th century ; Printing Social aspects 20th century ; History ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; Communication ; Technological innovations ; Indians of South America ; Social conditions ; Intellectual life ; Political and social views ; Popular culture ; Printing ; Social aspects ; Social change ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy ; History ; South America Intellectual life ; 20th century ; Andes Region ; South America ; South America Intellectual life 20th century ; South America Intellectual life 20th century ; Andes Region ; South America ; Electronic books History
    Abstract: "El intelectual y la cultura de masas, by Javier García Liendo, studies the responses of Ángel Rama (Uruguay) and Jose María Arguedas (Peru) to the effects of mass culture on Andean indigenous cultures and Latin American print culture during the second half of the twentieth century. It explores the part that Rama and Arguedas played in the conceptualization and promotion of new cultural spaces made possible by commodification and industrialization, as capitalism transformed the imaginaries and materialities that had shaped their cultural projects for Andean and Latin American cultures. Through a material analysis of print culture objects, in particular those resulting from Rama's editorial ventures--such as pocket paperbacks and a popular encyclopedia--this work examines the transformations occurring at the time in Latin America at the level of production and circulation of culture, and thus sheds light on the emergence of new networks of communication between intellectuals and national and regional publics. Similarly, it explores the role of emergent communication technologies (sound recording and radio) in the reshaping of rural indigenous cultures into a mass-oriented popular culture in Peru. In this context, Arguedas's work with folklore and his later involvement in the Andean popular music scene in Lima are studied as responses to a violent process of commercialization of traditional Andean musical culture, a result of mass migration from rural areas to cities and urbanization"--Provided by publisher
    Abstract: Cultura de masas : capitalismo, producción y comunicación -- Rama : la cultura de la imprenta como cultura de masas alternativa -- Rama : el ciclo popular de la cultura de la imprenta -- Arguedas : cultura de la imprenta y migración -- Arguedas : una cultura chola -- Conclusiones
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    ISBN: 1469635844 , 1469635852 , 9781469635842 , 9781469635859
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (pages cm)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Wilson, Emily Herring Three Graces of Val-Kill
    DDC: 305.4209747
    Keywords: Roosevelt, Eleanor ; Dickerman, Marion ; Cook, Nancy ; Roosevelt, Eleanor ; Dickerman, Marion ; Val-Kill Industries ; Feminism ; Female friendship ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; HISTORY ; United States ; 20th Century ; Female friendship ; Feminism ; Biographies ; Biographies ; Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site (N.Y.) ; New York (State) ; New York (State) ; Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site ; New York (State) ; Hyde Park (Dutchess County)
    Abstract: The Hudson River Valley -- New York City and the new woman -- The decision to build the cottage -- The family vacation -- The love nest -- The way they lived -- Val-Kill as refuge -- A gift for friendship -- It's up to the women -- Val-Kill industries -- The Todhunter school -- The white house -- Arthurdale -- Change comes to Val-Kill -- Drifting apart and a tragic talk -- An exchange of letters -- Missing evidence -- After the storm
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    Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse | Cape Town, South Africa : African Minds
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (1 PDF (xxvii, 337 pages)) , illustrations
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version
    DDC: 306.48420968
    Keywords: Minstrels ; Music Social aspects ; History and criticism ; Choral societies ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Part one. Memory and processes of musical appropriation. -- 1. Music behind the music : appropriation as the engine of creation -- 2. In the footsteps of the future : musical memory and reconciliation in South Africa -- part two. Nederlandsliedjies and notions of blending -- 3. The nederlandsliedjies' "uniqueness" -- 4. The meanings of blending -- part three. Moppies : humour and survival -- 5. Assembling comic songs -- 6. Behind the comic -- Conclusion : memory, resilience, identity and creolisation
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-334) , Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE
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    New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press
    ISBN: 9780813589572 , 0813589576
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Bhattacharya, Himika, 1975- Narrating Love and Violence
    DDC: 305.40954
    Keywords: Women Violence against ; India ; Lahūl ; Women Social conditions ; India ; Lahūl ; Dalit women Social conditions ; India ; Lahūl ; Women Violence against ; Women Social conditions ; Dalit women Social conditions ; Dalit women Social conditions ; Women Social conditions ; Women Violence against ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; Dalit women ; Social conditions ; Social conditions ; Women ; Social conditions ; Women ; Violence against ; Lahūl (India) Social conditions ; India ; Lahūl ; Lahūl (India) Social conditions ; Lahūl (India) Social conditions ; India ; Lahūl ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Prologue: from fieldwork to lifework -- Crossing the top -- Shades of wildness -- Storied lives -- Narrating love -- Magic tricks -- Remembering for love -- Epilogue
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    Lincoln, NE : University of Nebraska Press
    ISBN: 9781496202680 , 1496202686
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xii, 283 pages)
    Series Statement: Histories of anthropology annual volume 11
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Historicizing theories, identities, and nations
    DDC: 301.01
    Keywords: Anthropology Philosophy ; History ; Anthropology Methodology ; History ; History ; Anthropology Philosophy ; History ; Anthropology Methodology ; History ; Anthropology Methodology ; History ; Anthropology Philosophy ; History ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Regional Studies ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Sociology ; General ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; Anthropology ; Methodology ; Anthropology ; Philosophy ; History ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; General ; Electronic books
    Abstract: 7. An Epistemological Shift in the History of Anthropology: The Linguistic Turn8. Westermarck and the Diverse Roots of Relativism; 9. Heritage Gatherers: Peasant-Mania Ethnography and Pre-World War I National Awakeners of Ukraine; 10. Adopting Western Methods to Understand One's Own Culture: Social and Cultural Studies by Vietnamese Scholars of the French Colonial Era; 11. Life in Hanoi in the State Subsidy Period: Questions Raised in Social Criticism and Social Reminiscences; 12. Between Ethnos and Nation: Genealogies of Dân Tộc in Vietnamese Contexts
    Abstract: Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Editors' Introduction; 1. Franz Boas as Theorist: A Mentalist Paradigm for the Study of Mind, Body, Environment, and Culture; 2. ""We Are Also One in Our Concept of Freedom"": The Dewey-Boas Correspondence and the Invention of Postmodern Bourgeois Liberalism; 3. What Would Franz Boas Have Thought about 9/11?; 4. Boas and the Young Intellectuals: Exploring the American Context of Anthropology and Modern Life; 5. Ruth Benedict: Synergy, Maslow, and Hitler; 6. Continuity and Dislocations: A. I. Hallowell's Physical Anthropology
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    Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press
    ISBN: 9781613765302 , 1613765304
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (ix, 177 pages )
    Series Statement: Amherst series in law, jurisprudence, and social thought
    Parallel Title: Print version
    DDC: 393.9
    Keywords: Law Social aspects ; United States ; Mourning customs United States ; United States ; Mourning customs ; Law Social aspects ; Law Social aspects ; Mourning customs ; Mourning customs ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying ; LAW / Legal History ; Law ; Social aspects ; United States ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Law and mourning: an introduction / Martha Merrill Umphrey, Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas -- Mourning in America : what's law got to do with it? / Ray D. Madoff -- The mourning after : posthumous sperm retrieval and the new laws of mourning / Shai J. Lavi -- To weep Irish : keening and the law / Andrea Brady -- Listening within the "grief of distortions" / Ann Pellegrini -- Psychoanalysis, mourning, and the law : Achreber's paranoia as crisis of judging / Mark Sanders -- Does mourning become the law? : commodity fetishism and political contestation / Catherine Kellogg
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    Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse | Harare [Zimbabwe] : Weaver Press
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (1 PDF (xviii, 457 pages)) , illustrations, maps
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version
    DDC: 305.42096891
    Keywords: Chenaux-Repond, Maia ; Zimbabwe Biography ; Women in community development Biography ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Drawing on communications ‘rescued' from the shredders in the last days of Rhodesia, enlivened by photographs and memories - both her own and those of her colleagues - Maia Chenaux-Repond tells the story of her work as the Provincial Community Development Officer (Women) for Mashonaland and South in the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the 1970s. There are no records whatsoever in the National Archives of Zimbabwe about the Community Development Section (Women), even though it was active in all the provinces. In the absence of other documentary sources, and all other provincial officers long having emigrated or died, this account of her work fills a significant gap in the pre-independence history of Zimbabwe. The crucial focus of the Women's Section on improving the lives and skills of women in the rural areas became progressively more difficult when the civil war intensified from the early 1970 as rural people - and the development workers themselves - were moved into ‘Protected Villages', and as the Ministry became increasingly militarized
    Abstract: Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Abbreviations used; Map of Mashonaland South; Prologue: 1972; 1973; 1974; 1975; 1976; 1977; 1978-1979; The End; Index; Back cover
    Note: Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE , Includes bibliographical references
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    Ottawa : University of Ottawa Press
    ISBN: 9780776625881 , 0776625888 , 9780776625898 , 0776625896 , 9780776625904 , 077662590X
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (1 online resource.)
    Series Statement: The Symons medal series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.440971
    Keywords: Multiculturalism Canada ; Language and culture Canada ; Multiculturalism ; Language and culture ; Language and culture ; Multiculturalism ; Multiculturalism ; Race relations ; PERFORMING ARTS / Storytelling ; Language and culture ; Canada Race relations ; Canada ; Canada Race relations ; Canada Race relations ; Canada ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Antonine Maillet, prodigieuse « Acadienne, femme et écrivaine », tisse habilement les fils du mythe, de la patrie et de lendemains nouveaux dans cette inspirante allocution prononcée à l'occasion de la cérémonie de remise de la Médaille Symons
    Abstract: Cliquer ici pour lire la version en français; Couverture; Titre de page; Droits d'auteur; Table des matières; Avant-propos; Introduction; Les trésors cachés; Postface La Grande Émancipation : les Acadiens dans le monde d'aujourd'hui; Notes biographiques; Centre des arts de la Confédération, lauréats de la médaille Symons; Collection de la médaille Symons; Click here to read the book in English; Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Our Hidden Treasures; Afterword La grande émancipation: Acadians in the World Today; Biographical Notes
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    Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse | Mankon, Cameroon : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG | [Oxford, England] : Distributed in and outside N. America by African Books Collective
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (1 PDF (iv, 127 pages)))
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version
    DDC: 305.80071
    Keywords: Ethnology Study and teaching (Higher) ; Electronic books
    Abstract: This is a book on the state of social anthropology as an academic discipline in contemporary Zimbabwe. The authors are frustrated and disheartened by a problematic visibility and sluggish growth of the discipline in the country. The book makes an important claim that the future and vibrancy of anthropology in Zimbabwe, lies in how well anthropologists in the country and in the diaspora are able to join efforts in articulating, debating and enhancing its relevance and vitality. The book provides critical overview and nuanced analyses of the role and continued relevance of the discipline in reading and interpreting the social unfolding of everyday life and dynamism. It is a vital text for understanding and contextualising histories and trends in the development of social anthropology in Zimbabwe and how anthropologists in the country navigate the tumultuous waters and struggles that have engrossed the discipline since colonial times. The book has the capacity to generate added insights and influence national, continental, and global debates and trends in the field
    Abstract: 1. Anthropology, society, and change in conversation -- 2. Anthropology, Christianity, and the colonial project : a search for a humane anthropology in Zimbabwe -- 3. Anthropology, politics and recognition : a disciplinary struggle -- 4. Anthropology and the search for relevance -- 5. Anthropology in Zimbabwe thirty-five years after independence -- 6. Debunking the myths, resuscitating the discipline : the future of social anthropology in Zimbabwe -- 7. Conclusion
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 113-127) , Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE
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    Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse | Hong Kong [China] : Hong Kong University Press
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (1 PDF (xvi, 298 pages)) , illustrations
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Friedman lecture fund monograph
    Parallel Title: Print version
    DDC: 305.5/12
    Keywords: Equality ; Electronic books
    Abstract: When discussing inequality and poverty in Hong Kong, scholars and politicians often focus on the failures of government policy and push for an increase in social welfare. Richard Wong argues in Fixing Inequality in Hong Kong that universal retirement support, minimum wage, and standard hours of work are of limited effect in alleviating inequality. By comparing Hong Kong with Singapore, he points out that Hong Kong needs a new and long-term strategy on human resource policy. He recommends more investment in education, starting with early education and immigration policy reforms to attract highly educated and skilled people to join the workforce. In analyzing what causes inequality, this book ties disparate issues together into a coherent framework, such as Hong Kong's aging population, lack of investment in human capital, and family breakdowns. Rising divorce rates among low-income households have created a shortage of housing, driving rents and property prices upwards, and enlarging the wealth gap between those who own housing and those who do not, thus causing intergenerational upward mobility. This is the third of Richard Wong's collections of articles on society and economy in Hong Kong. Diversity and Occasional Anarchy and Hong Kong Land for Hong Kong People, published by Hong Kong University Press in 2013 and 2015 respectively, discuss growing contradictions in Hong Kong's economy and current housing problems as well as their solutions
    Abstract: Part 1. Introduction -- part 2. Alleviating poverty is hard -- part 3. Human capital, income inequality, and intergenerational mobility -- part 4. The family matters -- part 5. Housing and land -- part 6. Business strategy -- part 7. Fiscal concerns -- part 8. Labor market measures th at don't work -- part 9. What is the real challenge
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (1 PDF (xxxiii, 258 pages)) , illustrations
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Queer Asia
    Parallel Title: Print version
    DDC: 306.76/6
    Keywords: Sexual minorities in mass media ; Fans (Persons) ; Fans (Persons) ; Fans (Persons)
    Abstract: Chinese-speaking popular cultures have never been so queer in this digital, globalist age. The title of this pioneering volume, Boys' Love, Cosplay, and Androgynous Idols: Queer Fan Cultures in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan already gives an idea of the colorful, multifaceted realms the fans inhabit today. Contributors to this collection situate the proliferation of (often online) queer representations, productions, fantasies, and desires as a reaction against the norms in discourses surrounding nation-states, linguistics, geopolitics, genders, and sexualities. Moving beyond the easy polarities between general resistance and capitulation, Queer Fan Cultures explores the fans' diverse strategies in negotiating with cultural strictures and media censorship. It further outlines the performance of subjectivity, identity, and agency that cyberspace offers to female fans. Presenting a wide array of concrete case studies of queer fandoms in Chinese-speaking contexts, the essays in this volume challenge long-established Western-centric and Japanese-focused fan scholarship by highlighting the significance and specificities of Sinophone queer fan cultures and practices in a globalized world. The geographic organization of the chapters illuminates cultural differences and the other competing forces shaping geocultural intersections among fandoms based in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan
    Abstract: Introduction / Jing Jamie Zhao, Ling Yang, and Maud Lavin -- I. Mainland China -- 1. Chinese danmei fandom and cultural globalization from below / Ling Yang and Yanrui Xu -- 2. Cosplay, cuteness, and weiniang : the queered ke'ai of male cosplayers as "fake girls" / Shih-chen Chao -- 3. "The world of grand union" : engendering trans/nationalism via boys' love in online Chinese hetalia fandom / Ling Yang -- 4. Queering the post-L word shane in the "Garden of Eden" : Chinese fans' gossip about Katherine Moennig / Jing Jamie Zhao -- 5. From online BL fandom to the CCTV Spring Festival Gala : the transforming power of online carnival -- Shuyan Zhou -- 6. Dongfang Bubai, online fandom, and the gender politics of a legendary queer icon in post-Mao China / Egret Lulu Zhou -- II. Hong Kong -- 7. Desiring queer, negotiating normal : Denise Ho (HOCC) fandom before and after the coming-out / Eva Cheuk Yin Li -- 8. Hong Kong-based fans of mainland idol Li Yuchun : elective belonging, gender ambiguity, and rooted cosmopolitanism / Maud Lavin -- III. Taiwan -- 9. Exploring the Significance of "Japaneseness" : a case study of Fujoshi's BL fantasies in Taiwan / Weijung Chang -- 10. Girls who love boys' love : BL as goods to think with in Taiwan (with a revised and updated coda) / Fran Martin
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [221]-245) and index , Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE
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    Singapore : ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xx, 301 pages)
    Series Statement: Indonesia update series
    Parallel Title: Available in another form
    DDC: 303.483309598
    Keywords: Information technology Congresses Political aspects ; Information technology Congresses Social aspects ; Digital divide Congresses ; Information technology Congresses Economic aspects ; Information technology ; Social aspects ; fast ; (OCoLC)fst00973131 ; Indonesia ; fast ; (OCoLC)fst01209242 ; Digital divide ; fast ; (OCoLC)fst00893667 ; Conference papers and proceedings ; fast ; (OCoLC)fst01423772 ; Electronic books ; lcgft ; Information technology ; Economic aspects ; fast ; (OCoLC)fst00973097 ; Information technology ; Political aspects ; fast ; (OCoLC)fst00973119 ; Digital divide ; Conference papers and proceedings ; Electronic books ; Information technology ; Economic aspects ; Information technology ; Political aspects ; Information technology ; Social aspects ; Indonesia ; Electronic books
    Abstract: ""Contents""; ""1. Challenges and opportunities of the digital â#x80;#x98;revolutionâ#x80;#x99; in Indonesia by Edwin JurriÃ"ns and Ross Tapsell""; ""PART 1: Connectivity""; ""2. An insiderâ#x80;#x99;s view of e-governance under Jokowi: political promise or technocratic vision? by Yanuar Nugroho and Agung Hikmat""; ""3. Mobile phones: advertising, consumerism and class by Emma Baulch""; ""4. The political economy of digital media by Ross Tapsell""; ""PART 2: Divergence""; ""5. Narrowing the digital divide by Onno W. Purbo""
    Abstract: ""12. Digital art: hacktivism and social engagement by Edwin JurriÃ"ns""""PART 5: Commerce""; ""13. Indonesia and the digital economy: creative destruction, opportunities and challenges by Mari Pangestu and Grace Dewi""; ""14. A recent history of the Indonesian e-commerce industry: an insiderâ#x80;#x99;s account by Bede Moore""; ""15. The Go-Jek effect by Michele Ford and Vivian Honan""; ""Index""
    Abstract: ""6. Laws, crackdowns and control mechanisms: digital platforms and the state by Usman Hamid""""7. The state of cybersecurity in Indonesia by Budi Rahardjo""; ""PART 3: Identity""; ""8 Digital activism in contemporary Indonesia: victims, volunteers and voices by John Postill and Kurniawan Saputro""; ""9. Social media and Islamic practice: Indonesian ways of being digitally pious by Martin Slama""; ""10. Online extremism: the advent of encrypted private chat groups by Nava Nuraniyah""; ""PART 4: Knowledge""; ""11. Digitalising knowledge: education, libraries, archives by Kathleen Azali""
    Abstract: This book places Indonesia at the forefront of the global debate about the impact of 'disruptive' digital technologies. Digital technology is fast becoming the core of life, work, culture and identity. Yet, while the number of Indonesians using the Internet has followed the upward global trend, some groups - the poor, the elderly, women, the less well-educated, people living in remote communities - are disadvantaged. This interdisciplinary collection of essays by leading researchers and scholars, as well as e-governance and e-commerce insiders, examines the impact of digitalisation on the medi
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    ISBN: 0817390693 , 9780817390693
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (pages cm)
    Series Statement: Jews and Judaism: history and culture
    Uniform Title: Works Selections
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Greenberg, Hayim Essential Hayim Greenberg : essays and addresses on Jewish culture, socialism, and Zionism
    DDC: 305.892/4073
    Keywords: Greenberg, Hayim Political and social views ; Labor Zionism Influence ; Zionists Intellectual life ; Political and social views ; United States ; Greenberg, Hayim ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations
    Abstract: Machine generated contents note:1.Meaning of Zionism (1922) --2.Policy and Labor (1923) --3.East and West (1925) --4.Sabbatai Zevi: The Messiah as Apostate (1926) --5.Our Stand (1934) --6.Jew and Arab (1934) --7.Revisionism (1934) --8.Notes on Marxism (1935) --9.To a Communist Friend (1936) --10.Open Letter to the Third International (1936) --11.Answer to Gandhi (1939) --12.Leon Trotsky (1939, 1940) --13.Prayer (1940) --14.Einstein Discusses Religion (1940) --15.Psychoanalysis and Moral Pessimism (1940) --16.Chosen Peoples (1941) --17.Socialism Re-examined (1941) --18.Myth of Jewish Parasitism (1942) --19.Go to Nineveh (1941) --20.Halakhah and Agadah (1943) --21.Bankrupt! (1943) --22.Concerning Statehood (1943) --23.Notes on the Melting Pot (1944) --24.Universalism of the Chosen People (1945) --25.Current Alternatives in Palestine (1947) --26.Patriotism and Plural Loyalties (1948) --27.Concerning an Israel Constitution (1949) --28.Jewish Culture and Education in the Diaspora (1951) --29.Future of American Jewry (1951) --30.Church and State: Seven Theses (1952) --31.Religious Tolerance (n.d.).
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    Washington, D.C : World Bank
    ISBN: 9781464811449
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (pages cm)
    Series Statement: World Bank E-Library Archive
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 333.91/150956
    Keywords: Water resources development ; Water resources development ; Water-supply ; Water-supply
    Abstract: Executive summary -- Water security -- Profiling water security in the Middle East and North Africa -- The water security dividend -- Appendix -- Table A.1. Definition of indicators and data sources -- Table A.2. Data sources for the country profiles.
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: World Bank E-Library Archive
    Series Statement: Policy Notes
    Abstract: Poverty reduction and youth employment remain deeply intertwined in Mauritania. Mauritania's job-related challenge is characterized by a low-growth macroeconomic context, high reliance on minerals and extractives, and marked poverty and social exclusion. With youth (15-24 year olds) comprising over 40 percent of the population as of 2014, they are particularly vulnerable to high social exclusion. The main objective of this policy note is to provide an overview of the jobs challenge in Mauritania, with a focus on constraints and opportunities facing youth over the short to long term. To this end, it assesses overarching youth employment trends and gaps and offers recommendations for facilitating their entry into good, productive jobs. The note analyzes policy options, risks, and opportunities for strengthening youth employment prospects over the short to long term, with a focus on active labor market programs within an integrated approach to diversification, job creation, and poverty reduction. Moving forward, stronger public-private coalitions lie at the heart of youth employment and social inclusion in Mauritania
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    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Series Statement: Public Expenditure Review
    Abstract: This Public Expenditure Review (PER) was prepared at the request of Peru's Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF).The PER offers analysis, options for reform, and measures in selected areas and sectors to achieve efficiency gains and fiscal savings (where possible), while improving (at least not harming) equity. In the context of less favorable external environment, public finance is one of the critical issues that has come to the fore. The gradual fiscal consolidation process initiated offers a unique opportunity to carry out important fiscal and sectoral reforms. Preserve the hard-won gains of sound fiscal policy. This report consists of two parts; Part I focuses on the cross-cutting issues and challenges. The macro-fiscal chapter examines revenue and expenditure trends, provides a fiscal sustainability analysis and an assessment of contingent liabilities. It discusses relevant crosscutting fiscal issues, expenditure rigidities, revenue challenges, and areas to improve the multiannual macroeconomic framework (MMF). The public procurement chapter evaluates procurement practices applied by all government bodies in the budget. It uses the strategic sourcing methodology and data from Peru's procurement platform which for the purposes of this analysis has been merged with the budget accounting system (SEAF). It identifies significant fiscal savings and efficiency gains, many of which are relatively easy to achieve. Part II identifies areas for efficiency gains and potential fiscal savings in five selected sectors. These sectors include water and sanitation, health, education, citizen security, and transport. They account for a significant share of the budget and represent a substantial share of public service delivery. These chapters provide several approaches and perspectives in looking at technical and allocative efficiency. The PER identifies at least 1.4 percent of GDP in fiscal savings that arise from efficiency reforms and measures across the areas examined
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    Series Statement: World Bank E-Library Archive
    Series Statement: Law and Justice Study
    Abstract: Discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people is widespread and LGBTI exclusion from economic markets, vital services and political spaces is entrenched. This is not just a personal problem, it is a development challenge; not only because discrimination is inherently unjust, but also because "there are substantial costs - social, political, and economic - to not addressing the exclusion of entire groups of people." Understanding the barriers LGBTI people face in accessing markets, services, and spaces is important for designing more inclusive policies and programs
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    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
    ISBN: 0472122967 , 0472901117 , 0472130412 , 9780472122967 , 9780472901111
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (pages cm)
    Series Statement: Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.892/404
    Keywords: German literature Jewish authors ; Jews in literature ; Jews Identity ; Cosmopolitanism ; HISTORY / General ; Cosmopolitanism ; Ethnic relations ; German literature ; Jewish authors ; Jews ; Identity ; Jews in literature ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies ; Europe ; Europe Ethnic relations
    Abstract: ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""1. How Did We Get Here from There?""; ""Introducing the Problem""; ""The Cosmopolitanist Debates""; ""The Jew in Contemporary Theories of Cosmopolitanism""; ""Nomads, Gypsies, Jews""; ""Jews and the Nation-State""; ""2. Moving About: Cosmopolitanism from Jews in Coaches to Jews on Trains""; ""The Enlightenment Imagines Cosmopolitan Jews""; ""Writers in Coaches""; ""Jews Writing Their Own Cosmopolitanism""; ""3. â#x80;#x9C;Everyone Is Welcomeâ#x80;#x9D;: The Contradictions of Cosmopolitanism in the Imperial Worlds of Austro-Hungarian and Wilhelmine Jewry""
    Abstract: ""From Vienna to Berlin and Beyond""""Vienna, Zionism, and Cosmopolitanism""; ""Prague: On the Fringes of Empire""; ""Berlin: Another Empire""; ""4. Jewish Cosmopolitanism and the European Idea, 1918â#x80;#x93;1933""; ""After the Deluge""; ""Stefan Zweig: The Model European""; ""Joseph Rothâ#x80;#x99;s Hotel Patriotism""; ""Lion Feuchtwanger: The Empire Strikes Back""; ""Cosmopolitanism Tottering on the Brink of Catastrophe""; ""5. â#x80;#x9C;The World Will Be Your Homeâ#x80;#x9D;: Cosmopolitanism under National Socialism and in Exile""; ""The Revolution of 1933""; ""Thomas Mann and Egypt""
    Abstract: ""The Left and the Stalinist Purges after 1945: Rudolf Leonhard, Peter Weiss, and Stefan Heym""""7. Russian Jews as the Newest Cosmopolitans""; ""Rooted German Cosmopolitans?""; ""In Germany, Gogol Is Not Sholem Aleichem""; ""In America, Nabokov Really Is Not Sholem Aleichem""; ""8. Walls and Borders: Toward a Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Works Cited""
    Abstract: ""Joseph in Sigmund Freudâ#x80;#x99;s Egypt""""Heideggerâ#x80;#x99;s Rootless Jew""; ""Zweigâ#x80;#x99;s Erasmus in Exile: The Cosmopolitan par Excellence""; ""Roth and Zweig: Idealizing the Austro-Hungarian Empire""; ""Zweigâ#x80;#x99;s Brazil: The Farthest Exile""; ""Lion Feuchtwangerâ#x80;#x99;s History in Exile, the Josephus Trilogy""; ""6. Rootless Cosmopolitans: German Jewish Writers and the Stalinist Purges""; ""The Left in World War II and Thereafter""; ""Communism, National Socialism, and the Jews""; ""Writing the Stalinist Purges: Alice Rühle-Gerstel, Arthur Koestler, and ManÃs̈ Sperber""
    Abstract: Cosmopolitanisms and the Jews adds significantly to contemporary scholarship on cosmopolitanism by making the experience of Jews central to the discussion, as it traces the evolution of Jewish cosmopolitanism over the last two centuries. The book sets out from an exploration of the nature and cultural-political implications of the shifting perceptions of Jewish mobility and fluidity around 1800, when modern cosmopolitanist discourse arose. Through a series of case studies, the authors analyze the historical and discursive junctures that mark the central paradigm shifts in the Jewish self-image
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    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
    ISBN: 9780472122967
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (353 Seiten)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany
    DDC: 305.892/404
    Keywords: Jews in literature ; Jews Identity ; Cosmopolitanism ; German literature Jewish authors ; Europe Ethnic relations ; Deutsches Sprachgebiet ; Juden ; Weltbürgertum ; Geschichte 1800-2000
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    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Series Statement: Other Rural Study
    Abstract: This report examines the impact of rural connectivity on poverty, access to basic services, and income in Armenia, a country which has found itself in a low-growth, low-investment nexus, with stalled poverty reduction. This study attempts to shed light on the linkages between transport and poverty in Armenia. The rest of the report is structured as follows: Section 1 explains the evolution of selected social, economic, and demographic indicators for Armenia during the analysis period; Section 2 lays out the conceptual framework for operationalizing shared prosperity and poverty in rural transport operations; Section 3 proposes a systematic but non-exhaustive collection of literature on rural road impact studies in low- and middle-income countries; Section 4 examines regional gaps in accessibility to markets and services which were computed with the use of the first geographic information system (GIS) based mapping platform of its kind in Armenia, and introduces the potential association between accessibility and poverty in Armenia; Section 5 characterizes key social and economic indicators in the project's immediate area of influence to then summarize household-level outcomes obtained from a comprehensive qualitative analysis and community-level findings resulting from a nighttime lights analysis; and Section 6 summarizes the lessons learnt and the directions for future research. The report concludes with policy implications from this research and directions for future analytical and operational work on transport and poverty in Armenia
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    Series Statement: Economic Updates and Modeling
    Abstract: The World Bank is sharing the seventh edition of the Economic Update of Madagascar, which presents our analysis for the period up to the beginning of October 2017 and provides our medium-term economic outlook. Despite a challenging start due to two climatic shocks, we project growth at 4.1 percent in 2017, a continuation of the positive trend from last year. Key growth drivers in 2017 are expected to remain as services-related activities, construction works to partly support the reconstruction efforts from the natural disasters, and strong demand for Malagasy textiles from abroad. The severe drought in the first few months of the year affected agricultural activities and reduced hydroelectric power supply. Output for key staples such as rice fell, contributing to higher inflation and an increase in food imports. And in March 2017, Madagascar experienced its most severe cyclone in 13 years, where losses were estimated at USD 400 million, equivalent to approximately 4 percent of GDP
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    Series Statement: Other papers
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    Abstract: Urbanization is simultaneously a major driver of development, wealth creation, and poverty reduction, as well as one of the most pressing challenges of the 21st century. The building regulatory capacity assessment provides an important contribution to help cities and project managers working with development agencies to implement this last priority by offering a new resource to assess building and land use regulatory systems, and facilitate the collection of critical information about the building regulatory framework in any given city or country. The building regulatory capacity assessment is comprised of the level 1 - initial screening, designed for government officials and project managers undertaking rapid preliminary assessments. It provides an opportunity to initiate conversations with clients and relevant parties on strategies for achieving relevant development objectives. Level 1 is complemented by a level 2 - detailed exploration, which provides a set of guidelines for team members and contractors who are tasked with gathering and analyzing data and information about the building regulatory capacity of the target country, region, or municipality. Overall, the assessment identifies critical gaps, it provides the necessary information to develop a baseline for formulating technical assistance to clients, as well as drawing findings that can be used to determine areas for improvement and investment. As part of the building regulation for resilience program supported by the global facility for disaster reduction and recovery, the authors hope that this assessment tool will offer an effective resource for interventions within a wide range of urban development initiatives in cities of low and middle-income countries
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    Series Statement: Economic Updates and Modeling
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    Abstract: The main body of the report is organized in two chapters with three supporting annexes. Chapter one focuses on recent economic developments in the real, fiscal and banking sectors, while providing a near term outlook that highlights critical challenges facing the Palestinian economy. Chapter two provides input on a new vision for growth and job creation, with quantification of the potential gains. It contains critical messages for the GoI, the PA and the international donors on steps to create an environment conducive to the needed private sector investment. Annex one assesses the status of the World Bank recommendations to the AHLC meeting over the years, many of which relate to the constraints identified in chapter two. While there are developments, overall progress from the GoI and the PA has been minimal. Annex two provides an update on the disbursement of pledges made at the Cairo conference in October 2014 on reconstructing Gaza. Donor support by mid-July 2017, at 53 percent of Cairo conference pledges, had barely changed from the December 2016 position, and there are limited prospects of further contributions. Most of the gap can be attributed to the larger pledgers at the conference. Finally, annex three provides some methodological notes on the specifications of the CGE model and assumptions used to quantify the external and internal constraints
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    Series Statement: Financial Sector Assessment Program
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    Abstract: This Technical Note (TN) examines the current state of NPLs in Bulgaria and makes recommendations for a strategy to substantially reduce NPLs. These strategy recommendations were developed based on an assessment of the relevant regulatory and supervisory framework and bank practices, including relevant standards and practices for accounting treatments, early warning systems, NPL market development, and collateral valuation. The TN sets forth macroprudential approaches and other components of a sound strategy for NPL reduction, including improvements to loan loss provisioning, income recognition on NPLs, loan write-downs, early warning systems, collateral valuation, risk information for investors, and the NPL market. The NPL management process involves many stakeholders, and their mutual cooperation is important for success. The Bulgarian National Bank (BNB), in its capacity as bank supervisor and regulator and as macroprudential authority for banks, will be in the lead position on the implementation of key aspects of the NPL reduction strategy that can achieve progress in the near term. Broader policies to enhance NPL resolution entail other stakeholders, including the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) that would need to engage in the areas of insolvency and collateral enforcement regimes
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    Series Statement: Public Expenditure Review
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    Abstract: Zimbabwe is at a critical juncture. After dollarization and favorable economic factors fueled arecovery during 2009-12, Zimbabwe today faces slowing growth, a financial crisis, increasingly erratic weather patterns and rising poverty and inequality. To help respond to these issues, the Government of Zimbabwe (GoZ) has sought to examine and ultimately better manage its public expenditures, with a view to ensuring public spending is effective, efficient, equitable, and well-targeted to the needs of its changing population, especially the poor
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    Series Statement: Accounting and Auditing Assessment
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    Abstract: This report presents the questions no longer included in the revised diagnostic tool
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    Series Statement: Other Health Study
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    Abstract: The Service Delivery Indicators (SDI) program aims to document what results are obtained through public spending in the health and education sector. The focus is on the individual dimensions, whether effort (presence and workload) or knowledge (diagnostic accuracy, adherence to clinical guidelines, and case management). These dimensions are not routinely measured and reported publicly in a comparable fashion, yet are among the factors that influence policy outcomes in health. The remainder of this document is organized into three major sections: methodology and implementation; results; and implications for Niger. Annexes present details of the sampling strategy, definitions of the indicators, and additional results. A final section presents the references consulted or cited
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    Series Statement: Policy Notes
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    Abstract: The objective of the policy note is to develop options and policy recommendations for the Government of Vietnam on strengthening food safety capacity. The note lays out the available information, analyzes the institutional and policy framework for food safety, discusses possible recommendations and provides an outline for actions for the next steps. It is expected that after being reviewed by development partners, peer reviewers and experts, the policy note would be endorsed by the World Bank Group management as the basis for submitting to the Government of Vietnam. An important framework within which this analysis has been conducted is the toolkit that the WBG's Trade and Competitiveness Practice has published on Food Safety Reform in 2014. Through its eight Fundamental Pillars, the toolkit serves as a comprehensive checklist of where to get started and how to prioritize when undertaking Food safety reform process
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    Series Statement: Water and Sanitation Program
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    Abstract: Cities in the developing world are witnessing unprecedented growth rates. It is expected that 70 percent of the global population will live in cities by 2050. In urban areas, as in rural areas, women and girls are often the primary users, providers, and managers of water in their household, and are the guardians of household hygiene and health. In spaces of urban poverty, such as slums, women and girls experience multiple deprivations that arise from insecurity of land tenure, informal access mechanisms, over- crowding, and the various stresses of urban life. The water supply and sanitation sector, is the juncture at which broader goals of poverty alleviation, social development, gender equality, and sustainable urban development converge. How issues of gender and urban poverty can be addressed comprehensively in the design and implementation of urban water supply and sanitation (UWSS) programs is not yet well understood. In order to address these gaps in knowledge, the World Bank commissioned a study to analyze UWSS issues among the urban poor through a gender and social exclusion lens. Using India, with its burgeoning population and growing number of urban poor, as the context, this study assesses how women, girls, and socially excluded groups are impacted by poor access to water supply and sanitation and how they can be engaged in the design and management of water supply and sanitation programs. It is expected that the findings from this study will inform Government of India's policies in this sector and assist in the design of future World Bank-supported UWSS projects
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    Series Statement: Public Expenditure Review
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    Abstract: The objective of the Comoros public expenditure and fiscal management review is to assist the Government of Comoros in strengthening the basis for the management of its public expenditure program. The review takes stock of expenditure trends and the systems governing public spending, with an emphasis on strengthening fiscal sustainability, budget credibility and strengthening fiscal management in the electricity and service delivery sectors
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    Series Statement: Other Environmental Study
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    Abstract: Brazil has 12 percent of the global forest area, being the second largest forest area in the world (4,935,380 km2).Robust efforts by multiple government agencies have contributed to the reduction of annual deforestation rates in the Amazon by nearly 80 percent since 2004, to the lowest levels recorded since annual recordkeeping began in the late 1980s.The Native Vegetation Protection Law (NVPL), or Forest Code, created in 1934 and last modified in 2012, was established to protect natural vegetation in forest and non-forest biomes, conserve biological diversity, protect water resources, and prevent soil erosion on private lands. The law established Areas of Permanent Protection (APP), and stipulates a minimum proportion of native vegetation to be conserved as a Legal Reserve. APPs are mandatory on hilltops, steep slopes, coastal shrublands, mangroves, wetlands, around springs, and along watercourses and reservoirs.The legal mandate to reforest or recover natural non-forest vegetation in Brazil is closely aligned with several international conventions and commitments focusing on biodiversity conservation and climate change mitigation, especially the Aichi Target 15 of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (UNCBD),and national climate mitigation commitments under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Land-use targets are an important component of Brazil's Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDC) under the recent (2015) Paris agreement under the UNFCCC.Recovery of forest vegetation provides many social, economic, and environmental benefits, even if all of the qualities and components of the original forests are ultimately not restored.A major economic benefit of forest restoration is the development of supply chains for tree-planting activities and plantation maintenance, which generates employment and business opportunities.Forest restoration also provides increased protection (insurance) against flooding, landslides and other extreme climate events, with incalculable benefits for human life and wellbeing
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    Series Statement: Economic Updates and Modeling
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    Abstract: The Philippines Economic ...
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    Series Statement: Other Environmental Study
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    Abstract: In September 2015, the 2030 agenda for sustainable development was adopted by member states of the United Nations (UN) at an historic UN summit. Sustainable consumption and production (SCP), as specifically reflected by SD goal (SDG) 12, is among the most important SDGs in the 2030 agenda for sustainable development. The Government of Turkey (GoT) is dedicated to taking action for the successful implementation of the 2030 agenda for sustainable development, it welcomes the universal and integrated nature of SDGs. The World Bank (WB) and other Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) are committed to helping national governments integrate their development agendas with the SDGs and supporting the design and use of economic instruments to ensure their effective implementation. The purpose of this report is to review Turkey's on-going efforts as well as international experience in implementing economic instruments to support SCP as specified in SDG 12, analyze the gaps, and discuss areas where Turkey may better adopt economic instruments and other incentive policies for promoting SCP in the new national development plan (NDP). The study contains six chapters. Chapter one gives introduction. Chapter two provides an overview of Turkey's involvement in the global sustainable development agenda, a summary of SDG12 and key themes of SCP. Chapter three introduces the conceptual framework on green financing, and summarizes international experience on the use of economic instruments with a focus on SCP. Chapter four explores the Turkish context of economic instruments to support SCP and reviews existing economic policies and instruments. Areas for improvement and recommendations are presented in chapter five. Chapter six provides concluding remarks
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    Series Statement: Policy Notes
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    Abstract: This reports on the cost of doing business in Egypt consistently identify delays in land acquisition as one of the impediments to setting up new businesses as well as attracting foreign direct investments. Despite the provisions of Law 10/1990 (hereafter referred to as Law 10), which lays out a legal framework for the expropriation of real estate for public-interest projects, these delays persist due to overlapping in national and sectoral policies and practices. This Policy note acknowledges the absence of a comprehensive land administration system in Egypt. It focuses instead on the challenges facing land acquisition for public interest projects and theshortcomings of Law 10. It summarizes key challenges based on the findings of key research productsfrom the technical assistance (TA) program offered by the World Bank to the Egyptian government concerning land acquisition and policy reform, including the diagnostic analysis report prepared in June 2016 and the report of the TA Committee Members' visit to India prepared in May 2016. The key challenges discussed in this policy note fall under two broad kinds: limitations in law, and policy coherence. To help develop a more coherent and transparent approach to land acquisition, this note also lays out recommendations and a road map. The Annex to this note highlights the broader issues of land administration, with a special focus on the weak institutionalization of deeds and title registration systems
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    Series Statement: Country Partnership Frameworks
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    Abstract: This Country Partnership Framework (CPF) for Turkey covers the period FY18-21. It is aligned with the objectives of Turkey's 10th Development Plan and is based on the findings of a World Bank Group (WBG) Systematic Country Diagnostic (SCD) that was finalized in February 2017. The CPF aims to help Turkey to achieve its development objectives through building on the foundations of the existing program and consolidating gains in key areas where the WBG is already active, as well as developing the program further in areas which target the WBG twin goals of reducing extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity. The CPF puts forward a flexible approach for the WBG's program that is appropriate for a middle-income country of Turkey's size and takes account of the evolving country and regional situation
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    Series Statement: Economic Updates and Modeling
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    Abstract: The objective of this report is to share perspectives with the Government of Bangladesh, think tanks and researchers, the public as well as the Bank's senior management on the state of the economy, outlook, risks, progress on structural policy reforms, and key challenges the economy is currently facing. The coverage includes developments in the real sector focusing on poverty, growth, and inflation; external sector developments focusing on the balance of payments, foreign exchange reserves and the exchange rate; fiscal developments focusing on revenue mobilization, public expenditures, and deficit financing; financial sector developments focusing on credit and interest rates; and monetary developments. This update also assesses the progress in Bangladesh's labor markets and concludes with an exposition of the policy challenges that need to be addressed to accelerate the creation of quality jobs
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    Series Statement: City Development Strategy
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    Abstract: Uganda is urbanizing rapidly. If not proactively managed, Uganda will miss a major opportunity for structural transformation. The purpose of this report is to provide Ugandan policymakers with economic analyses on the role of Greater Kampala in achieving Uganda's economic goals outlined in Vision 2040 and the actions needed to unlock the city's economic potential. This report drills down into the case of Greater Kampala and outlines the metropolitan's main challenges to promoting economic development and recommending areas for government action. Following the introductory section, Section 2 profiles Greater Kampala's economic strengths and weaknesses as well as outlines the vital role it plays in Uganda's economy. The section will show that Greater Kampala is not generating enough jobs in the value-added sectors, like manufacturing, for sustained economic development and concludes by identifying promising sectors which have the greatest potential to create productive jobs. This report then argues that there are three focus areas which are crucial to Greater Kampala's future economic development: i) Built environment and; ii) Business constraints affecting the tradable sector. Section 2 evaluates Greater Kampala's built environment, assessing the city's urban form and infrastructure and how they impact on firm competitiveness. This section concludes with practical suggestions for the Greater Kampala Metropolitan Area stakeholders and identifies opportunities to better manage Greater Kampala's urbanization. Section 3 addresses the business constraints which Kampala's formal firms face. This section discusses how governments can best engage businesses to address barriers to firm growth including access to finance, taxation and skills. The report concludes by outlining all recommendations in a sequenced plan
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    Series Statement: City Development Strategy
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    Abstract: Technology is one of the main drivers of productivity and economic growth. Developing countries have traditionally had difficulties in both developing technology and absorbing foreign technology. Seventy to eighty percent of the productivity gap between developed and developing countries is estimated to result from the lag in the adoption of technologies in these countries. Tech start-ups are an effective a mechanism to both create local technology and absorb foreign technology. In recent years, there has been a surge in tech start-ups across the world. Fueled by global technology-led cost reductions and increased access to resources, tech entrepreneurs have emerged in both develop and developing countries. However, there is little understanding of how these tech entrepreneurs form ecosystems, their internal dynamics, how they work, what makes them grow and achieve sustainability, how they connect with the local economy to drive productivity and employment, and why some ecosystems are more effective than others The objective of this report is to provide a better understanding of the status of Dar Es Salaam's start-up ecosystem and provide policy recommendations for policy makers and other stakeholders who are interested in supporting the growth and sustainability of the ecosystem
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    Series Statement: Knowledge Economy Study
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    Abstract: This report studies coding bootcamps. A new kind of rapid skills training program for the digital age. Coding bootcamps are typically short-term (three to six months), intensive and applied training courses provided by a third party that crowdsources the demand for low-skills tech talent. Coding bootcamps aim at low-entry level tech employability (for example, junior developer), providing a new tool for entry into the new world of digital jobs. This report studies the characteristics, methodologies, business models and impact of five coding bootcamps operating directly or through partners in developing countries. High employability and employment rates in low-entry tech positions (for example, junior developer, freelancer, and so on) reported by coding bootcamps suggest an untapped potential of this form of rapid tech skills training. From the case studies, there are two factors that seem to exert a major influence over employment outcomes: 1. selection criteria, and 2. extent of links with the local tech ecosystem. However, there is also criticism around bootcamp programs, which have been grounded in three key arguments: quality of programming skills, employability, and "short termism." Early evidence, which is based on a limited number of sources and mostly based on the data from bootcamp providers themselves, calls for additional, more representative, and holistic research
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    Series Statement: Economic Updates and Modeling
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    Abstract: The third edition of the Mozambique Economic Update comes at a time when the economy is beginning to show some signs of recovery in 2017. But as extractives and other large industries drive the recent developments, whilst small and medium enterprises lag behind, Mozambique is increasingly showing the signs of being "A two-speed economy". Reestablishing macroeconomic stability through a more balanced mix of fiscal and monetary policy is a priority for private sector growth. Slowly easing inflation and lower credit levels suggest that the monetary policy cycle could begin to loosen as the economy continues to adjust. However, making this transition smoothly will require a sharper fiscal policy response to restore the health of Mozambique's public finances
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    Series Statement: Other Procurement Study
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    Abstract: The sector of small and medium-sized enterprises (hereinafter SMEs) represent an increasingly important segment of Montenegrin economy and have been key drivers of its economic growth and employment for the past several years. With foreign direct investment, this sector could be an important lever of economic development and the main creator of new jobs in the future. In order to survive and develop in the market, these enterprises have to constantly build new competitive benefits. The same can be built within the enterprises themselves through their strengthening and development, but also through mutual cooperation and linking. Because SMEs have an important role in the economic development of each country, it is necessary to encourage and facilitate their participation in public procurement procedures. Taking into account the fact that procurements merge at all levels (national and local), special attention should be paid to get SMEs more closely involved in the procurement procedures with contracting authorities, subject to the application of the LPP. Montenegro has recognized in its agenda through the strategy for the development of the public procurement system for the period 2016-2020 the necessity of active relationship between the state and local self-government on the development and encouragement of SMEs. Based on research carried out in direct communication with the representatives of these entities and their associations, with the aim to assess the readiness of SMEs to adapt to future activities in the field of public procurement, it is evident that they are planning new investments and expansion of business. They are ready to invest in human resources, technical, technological and other facilities necessary for successful business, in order to be competitive in the market. To that end, they expect more support from the state of Montenegro and the local community. In accordance with the orientation and expectations of SMEs this guide is intended to encourage the participation of SMEs at all levels in the area of public procurement
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    Abstract: The 'Linking up: Public-Private Partnerships in Power Transmission in Africa' report examines private sector-led investments in transmission globally and how this approach is applicable in sub-Saharan Africa. The private sector has invested over US
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    Abstract: The study analyzes the SE landscape and related ecosystem of seven SAARC countries: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. The scope of this study is limited to three sectors that are significant for SEs: (a) Agri-business, (b) Healthcare and (c) Renewable Energy. The study covers mapping and evaluation of organized SE activity (government recognized legal structure) within each sector. The selection of the basic services was done based on priorities of WB Systematic Country Diagnostics and various multi-stakeholders consutations.This report attempts to bridge the information gap for the SE ecosystem in the SAARC region excluding India. While analyzing the SE landscape and ecosystem in the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries, this report aims to provide insights to various stakeholders to design initiatives for deeper assessment of the priority sectors and segments for promoting social entrepreneurship across these countries
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    Series Statement: Other Poverty Study
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    Abstract: The strong economic growth enjoyed by the Dominican Republic following its 2003 domestic crisis was not matched by similarly substantial progress in poverty reduction. While labor productivity grew by an estimated 39 percent between 2000 and 2013, real wages fell with the crisis in 2003/04, and, in 2013, remained below their pre-crisis level. This report presents an assessment of factors related to the functioning of the labor markets that constrained more inclusive growth in the Dominican Republic. It explores several hypotheses related to labor supply factors, job creation, and global trends in returns to labor, as well as issues with statistical measurements that contribute to explain the weak relationship observed between growth and poverty reduction. The analysis finds that growth appears to have been driven by productivity increases rather than by increases in labor inputs. At the same time, low-skilled workers became increasingly concentrated in low-quality jobs and in sectors that saw low productivity growth, a trend enhanced by the loss of manufacturing jobs since 2000. Low rates of labor force participation, particularly among the poor, further limited the ability of households to benefit from growth
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    Series Statement: Other Social Protection Study
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    Abstract: This report presents new insights on the availability and demand for skills, drawing on two innovative surveys: a household level survey to measure the supply of skills in the adult population, and an employer survey to measure demand for skills. The key message coming from these two surveys is that there is indeed a significant skills gap in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, and that closing this gap will be beneficial to workers, firms, and the economy. Skills development systems in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia are not equitable, and especially those of non-Macedonian ethnicity lack access to skills development and higher skilled jobs. Access to education still differs significantly across ethnic groups, and the gap does not appear to fall over time. Some more vulnerable groups in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia consequently accumulate fewer skills - even elementary skills such as basic literacy - and have less access to skilled jobs. The skills development system of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia will be strengthened by stronger coordination and collaboration between these different actors. Tax exemptions and other forms of financial incentives could be used to encourage firms to train their work force. However, policy could also focus on connecting employers and educational institutions better, by establishing coordination mechanisms and supporting industrial associations. As part of this agenda, it would be useful to explore ways of introducing apprentice- and internships systems, that expose students with the world of work and increases the practical content of training, while lowering the cost to firms. Efforts to establish labor market information systems in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, that could help students, workers, employers and educational systems exchange relevant and timely information, are ongoing. A more comprehensive system for monitoring and evaluation would help policy makers identify bottlenecks and quality problems
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    Series Statement: Risk and Vulnerability Assessment
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    Abstract: This report seeks to further the body of disaster risk management (DRM) knowledge in Santa Catarina by identifying flood asset exposure risks and consequently empower the state government and its institutions to include DRM practices and information in their daily operations and decision-making processes, respectively. In this context, a novel study was jointly designed and developed by the World Bank and Santa Catarina's state government with the ultimate aim to produce a state-level Catastrophe (CAT) model. The novelty and depth of the study allowed the team to draw a number of potential policy implications and possible decision making to improve the state's resilience to natural disasters. To the best of the team's knowledge, this is a first-of-its-kind study in Brazil and has potential direct applications to a wide body of professions and institutions in Santa Catarina. Finally, the proposed methodological approach was heavily based on the national census as well as on commonly accessible hydro-meteorological data and topographic information to ensure replicability in other Brazilian states or municipalities
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    Series Statement: Other Education Study
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    Abstract: Each year countries suffer great tragedy when natural disasters destroy schools and disrupt children's education. In addition to causing immediate harm to children, there is mounting evidence that the direct impact of natural disasters can translate into a series of indirect long-term effects. For some time, multilateral and bilateral development finance institutions, United Nations (UN) agencies, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have been engaged in efforts to make schools resilient to natural hazards. Despite these efforts, however, the safety of school facilities in many disaster-prone countries is unknown, and governments and donors continue to finance new school construction without taking sufficient account of safety. In 2014, the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) launched the Global Program for Safer Schools (GPSS). Through the GPSS, GFDRR support programs designed to establish safer school facilities in countries where the government has firmly committed to a reform or investment program in the education sector. GFDRR provides technical assistance to ensure that such education sector programs finance safer school facilities. The aim of the GPSS is to make school facilities, and the communities they serve, more resilient to natural hazards. This Roadmap is focused specifically on school infrastructure (which includes the school site and buildings). For investment opportunities to be effective and to have maximum impact at community and national scales, it is important that this support is coordinated with investments in school disaster management, risk reduction and resilience in education, and disaster preparedness in other sectors
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    Series Statement: Country Partnership Frameworks
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    Abstract: Ethiopia has achieved substantial progress in economic, social, and human development over the past decade. The country partnership framework (CPF) draws on the findings of the World Bank Group (WBG's) 2016 systematic country diagnostic (SCD) for Ethiopia, which identified eight binding constraints to ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity, along with two overarching challenges: the need for a sustainable financing model for growth, and inadequate feedback mechanisms to facilitate citizen engagement and government account- ability. This CPF succeeds the Ethiopia FY13-FY16 country partnership strategy (CPS), which was discussed at the Board on August 29, 2012. It also reflects lessons learned and resulting suggestions from the CPS completion and learning review (CLR), which is presented in this report. Following a decade of strong economic growth in Ethiopia, the CPF addresses the challenges of forging a growth path that is more broadly inclusive and sustainable. The CPF program will focus on: (i) promoting structural and economic transformation through increased productivity; (ii) building resilience and inclusiveness (including gender equality); and (iii) supporting institutional accountability and confronting corruption. This CPF adopts a spatial lens through which this five-year program will seek to deliver bold results and to tackle two of the greatest spatial challenges to Ethiopia's quest to achieve lower middle-income status by 2025
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    Series Statement: Country Partnership Frameworks
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    Abstract: This World Bank Group (WBG) Guinea-Bissau country partnership framework (CPF) will be the first full country strategy since 1997. The development of the CPF has benefited from the findings of the 2016 systematic country diagnostic (SCD) and the 2015 fragility assessment, and addresses the main lessons learned from the completion and learning review (CLR) at annex 2. It also reflects feedback from consultations with the government, private sector, civil society, and development partners. This CPF supports the national development plan, Terra Ranka (fresh start), which was developed by the government elected in 2014. The CPF presents a selective and flexible WBG program. The focus areas of the CPF program will be on increased access to quality basic services and expanded economic opportunities and enhanced resilience to shocks
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    Series Statement: Systematic Country Diagnostics
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    Abstract: Nicaragua remains one of the poorest countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). About 30 percent of the population lived below the official poverty line in 2014, and eight percent were considered extremely poor. GDP per capita stood at about USD 2,087 in 2015, the second lowest in LAC after Haiti. Access to basic services, such as electricity and water and sanitation, is low and largely unequal. Other key social indicators, including access to education, completion rates, and teenage pregnancy, also lag behind the regional average. Since the country's democratic transition in the early 1990s, Nicaragua has undergone a solid economic recovery from a very low base, due to three main factors. These include i) improved macroeconomic management and debt relief; ii) reforms aiming at transforming Nicaragua back into a market economy; and iii) demographic change. As a result, real GDP growth averaged about 4 percent between 1994 and 2015
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    Series Statement: Economic Updates and Modeling
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    Abstract: Zimbabwe's economy grew by 0.7 percent in 2016 despite the combined effect of the El Nino drought and domestic financial turmoil. The drought reduced agricultural output and increased food prices towards the end of the year, despite the government's efforts to boost production and stabilize prices. The public provision of agricultural inputs, the creation of food-for-work programs, and the establishment of price supports for staple foods accentuated the government's expansionary fiscal-policy stance. Meanwhile, the government also increased spending on a cash basis to clear domestic arrears. The authorities financed much of the widening fiscal deficit by issuing Treasury bills purchased by commercial banks and a US
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    Series Statement: Policy Notes
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    Abstract: This policy note discusses strengthening institutions for urban and metropolitan management and service delivery and is part of a broader Philippines urbanization study. Strong institutions are critical to the effective management of cities, the delivery of efficient urban services and infrastructure, and the establishment of an enabling environment for business and job creation. Strong institutions are needed to design and support policies for land and housing markets, raise and equitably redistribute revenues, and promote a safe and sustainable urban environment both at the national and local levels. A number of underlying institutional and governance issues at national and metropolitan levels in the Philippines stand out as binding constraints which have limited the country from optimizing the benefits of urban development. Even as the share of the national population living in urban areas has expanded to around 50 percent, urbanization in the country has never been guided by a comprehensive urban development policy supported by a clearly defined institutional framework. Institutional fragmentation among various oversight and sectorial agencies at the national level has exacerbated the weak institutional environment for urban development. The continuing expansion and population growth of urban areas throughout the country heightens the urgency for adopting comprehensive urban policy and institutional reforms that will enable the country to harness the benefits of urban development and mitigate negative externalities. There are a number of key challenges related to governance and institutions that are hampering successful urbanization: (i) absence of a comprehensive national urban policy; (ii) absence of a lead agency for urban development; (iii) weaknesses in the fiscal decentralization framework; and (iv) metropolitan fragmentation and weak mechanisms for inter-jurisdictional coordination
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    Series Statement: Country Partnership Frameworks
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    Abstract: This document presents the World Bank Group (WBG) Country Partnership Framework (CPF) withthe Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) for 2017-2021. The WBG CPF aims at supportingLasting Accessible Opportunities for all including sustained green growth, improved access to humanand infrastructure services, and opportunities for all. The previous Country Partnership Strategy (CPS)2012-2016 built a solid foundation and a strong relationship with the Government of Lao PDR (GOL). The CPF supports the GOL's 8th National Socio-Economic Development Plan (NSEDP) for2016-2020. The 8th NSEDP introduces policies intended to put Lao PDR on a path to reduce povertyand promote shared prosperity in a sustainable manner, based on green growth principles. Lao PDR'sdevelopment has advanced greatly in the last two decades, although significant challenges remain.Incomes have risen, poverty has declined, access to several key public services has improved and asa result Lao PDR met a number of its Millennium Development Goals. With GDP growth averaging8 percent per year since 2000, Lao PDR today is a lower-middle income country with a GNI percapita of around US
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    Series Statement: Country Partnership Frameworks
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    Abstract: Thirty years after the launch of the economic reforms known as Doi Moi, Vietnam is considered a development success story-marked by remarkable poverty reduction and economic growth. Notwithstanding notable achievements, development challenges persist. The last World Bank Group (WBG) country strategy for Vietnam, the FY12-16 Country Partnership Strategy (CPS), was presented to the WBG Board of Directors on December 15, 2011.The Vietnam Country Partnership Framework (CPF) covers the period FY18-22. It has been prepared based on analysis and conclusions in Vietnam 2035: Toward Prosperity, Creativity, Equity, and Democracy (Vietnam 2035)1 and in the 2016 Vietnam Systematic CountryDiagnostic (SCD), and informed by the CPS Completion and Learning Review (CLR) and the 2016 Client Survey. The CPF is fully aligned with the Government of Vietnam's (GoV) 2010-20 Socio-Economic Development Strategy (SEDS) and the recent 2016-20 Socio-Economic Development Plan (SEDP). The CPF responds to priorities for support expressed by the government and builds on the WBG's comparative advantage.The CPF is prepared at a critical juncture in Vietnam's development and at a time of transition. FY18 represents a new period in GoV-WBG relations as Vietnam graduates from the International Development Association (IDA) at end-FY17. Moreover, success raises expectations-Vietnam has high ambitions for further development and growth, aspiring to modernity, industrialization, and a better quality of life.The CPS has three pillars: (i) strengthen Vietnam's competitiveness in the regional and global economy; (ii) increase sustainability of the country's development; and (iii) broaden access to economic and social opportunity, supported by three cross-cutting themes: (a) strengthen governance, (b) promote gender equality, and (c) improve resilience related to external economic and climatic shocks
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    Series Statement: World Bank East Asia and Pacific Economic Update
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    Abstract: The region's growth outlook for 2017-19 remains broadly positive. China's growth moderation and rebalancing are expected to continue. In the region's other large developing economies, growth is projected to pick up slightly. Poverty has continued to decline in most countries and is projected to fall further. Global and regional vulnerabilities place a premium on macroeconomic prudence. Mobilizing additional revenues will create space for measures to support growth and foster inclusion. Some smaller commodity-exporting economies need to focus on lowering threats to fiscal solvency. Much of the region may need to adjust accommodative monetary policies. In China, reforms of the corporate sector, including restructuring of SOEs, and measures to bring credit growth under control are critical to reducing vulnerabilities. Elsewhere in the region, improvements in financial supervision and prudential regulation will be required. Developing EAP economies could benefit significantly from improving the quality of public spending, deepening regional integration, and reducing the agricultural sector's increasingly adverse environmental footprint
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    Series Statement: South Asia Economic Focus
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    Abstract: South Asia remains the fastest growing region in the world. With a strong performance in the eastern part of the region - in particular in Bhutan, Bangladesh and India - the region defied disappointing world growth in 2016. Inflation slowed down in the second half of 2016, mainly due to lower food prices, but appears to be turning up again. Despite recent real exchange rate appreciation, current account balances are mostly in order throughout the region. After a sharp decline triggered by lower oil prices, remittance inflows are stabilizing in most countries and international reserves are mostly at comfortable levels. Progress on fiscal consolidation has been more gradual and public debt levels remain high. South Asia's performance will maintain momentum, with the gap between its growth rate and that of East Asia slightly widening over time. Regional growth is expected to surpass 7 percent from 2018 onwards. Robust domestic demand, an uptick in exports, and steady FDI inflows underlie this positive outlook. But with financial sector risks remaining, creating financing opportunities for private investment remains a challenge. Pressures against international trade are mounting. The negotiation of mega-regional trade agreements stalled, the number of protectionist measures has increased, and existing agreements may be reconsidered. South Asia was already less integrated in global merchandise trade than other regions. In light of current pressures, a legitimate question is whether it should focus on exports as a driver of economic growth and job creation. However, the prospects for the region are better than it seems. The stalled mega-regional trade agreements, which did not include any South Asian country, were expected to reduce South Asia's competitiveness. Simulations on the impact of hypothetical new trade barriers applied across the board suggest that the harm for the region would be limited. And in a scenario where hypothetical new trade barriers would be applied selectively, South Asia could actually benefit from trade diversion. The region also stands to gain from the observed growth recovery in advanced economies, because they are the main markets for its exports. The current globalization backlash should thus not dissuade South Asian countries from having a stronger outward orientation. But the gains for the region would be larger if its exports were more diversified and its supply response were more elastic
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    Abstract: It is clear that disasters from natural hazards are having extensive impacts on vulnerable communities and the economies of many nations. Japan's comprehensive multi-hazard approach covering weather, climate, ocean-related, and terrestrial services has been applied and developed through numerous experiences of disastrous events, such as the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, strong typhoon landfalls, and volcanic eruptions. This summary report aims to provide a knowledge base for policy and decision makers that will allow governments and sponsor organizations to understand the fundamental operations of weather, climate, and hydrological services (together constituting Hydromet services) and consequently target effective funding, in particular to developing countries. It summarizes two detailed and comprehensive supporting reports: (i) a background paper by the Japan Meteorological Business Support Center (JMBSC) on meteorological services; and (ii) a background paper by the Foundation of River and Basin Integrated Communications, Japan (FRICS), on hydrology and water resources. The Japanese model of hydromet services outlined in this summary report and the background papers is an excellent example of a modern service with strong government involvement and institutional governance built up over decades, comprehensive infrastructure, and sound and advanced service delivery. This paper is arranged as follows: (a) Section 2 explains the key historical phases of modernization of each service (as described in the background papers), which led to the current integrated modern service provided for the public good; and (b) Section 3, concludes with a synthesis of the key elements of the Japanese experience understood as a model for countries undertaking modernization, and discusses possible implications for developing countries
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    Abstract: This report examines the economic and development consequences of antimicrobial resistance(AMR)-the capacity that disease-causing microorganisms acquire to resist the drugs we've createdto fight them. The report uses World Bank Group economic simulation tools to put a price tag onAMR's destructive impacts on the global economy from 2017 through 2050, if adequate measuresaren't taken to contain the AMR threat. The report highlights actions low- and middle-income countries and their development partners can take to counter AMR, and estimates the investment required. It shows that putting resources into AMR containment now is one of the highest-yield investments countries can make. Antimicrobials are drugs that destroy disease-causing microbes, also called pathogens, such as certain bacteria, viruses, parasites, and fungi. The most familiar and important antimicrobials are antibiotics, which treat bacterial infections. Other antimicrobials combat viral and parasitic diseases, such as AIDS and malaria. Since their use began some 70 years ago, antimicrobials have saved hundreds of millions of lives
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    Series Statement: Economic Updates and Modeling
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    Abstract: The Bangladesh economy is weathering persistent global uncertainties relatively well. Poverty reduction is expected to have continued. Growth remained resilient, aided recently by recovery in exports and private investments. Inflation has decelerated benefitting from soft international commodity prices and prudent macroeconomic management. The outlook for Bangladesh's main export destinations is projected to improve, although downside risks remain elevated. More recently, falling export growth and decline in remittances are emerging near term concerns. According to our model, increased capital accumulation can contribute significantly to boosting growth, but alone cannot deliver a sustainable and accelerated growth path. More is needed, including closing the inter-sectoral productivity gap through increased resource mobility, easing the constraints on firm level productivity and increasing female labor force participation in the formal sectors. In addition, poor infrastructure, inadequate energy supply, and inefficient financial intermediation combined with high cost of doing business remain the key obstacles hindering the realization of Bangladesh's vast economic potential
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    Series Statement: Law and Justice Study
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    Abstract: It is acknowledged that conflict over land is a major source of violence in various parts of Mindanao, particularly the prosed Bangsamoro region. Historical accounts trace the root cause of land issues and identity-based conflict to the introduction of the Regalian doctrine of land ownership by Spanish colonizers. During the American colonial regime at the turn of the 20th century, dispossession of land held by the original inhabitants of Mindanao accelerated, with an emphasis of titling lands for private ownership that clashed with the tradition of ancestral domain. This was further exacerbated by migration instigated by the central government, starting with the development of "agricultural colonies: in the early 1900s to 1940s, to the passage of a series of land reform laws from the 1960s until the end of the 1980s to encourage individual land titling as a strategy for agricultural development. These evens radically altered land ownership patterns in Mindanao, as communal ownership of land by its original inhabitants gave way to individual titles in the possession of settlers from Luzon and the Visayas
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    Series Statement: Foreign Trade, Foreign Direct Investment, and Capital Flows Study
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    Abstract: This study assesses the main spillover effects of the Libyan crisis on the Tunisian economy and estimates the crisis' overall social welfare and fiscal impacts on Tunisia. The authors consider four main effects on Tunisia: (i) the increased presence of Libyans in Tunisia (both short- and long-term), and the return of Tunisian workers from Libya; (ii) the level and dynamics of illicit informal trade and informal cash flows between the two countries; (iii) the deterioration of civil security in the region and its effects on private investment and tourism; and (iv) the increase in the Tunisian government's security spending. The chapter is organized as follows. Section one describes the objectives of the investigation and methodology. Section two estimates the number of Libyans living in Tunisia (temporary and permanent) and their demographic characteristics. Section three analyzes the living conditions of Libyan households in Tunisia and provides an estimate of their poverty level. Section four analyzes the shocks to Libyan households, and those households' adaptations and resilience in response to shocks. Section five discusses the migratory decisions of Libyan households, in particular their preference to either return to Libya or remain permanently in Tunisia
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    Series Statement: Economic Updates and Modeling
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    Abstract: The negative GDP growth r ...
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    Series Statement: Economic Updates and Modeling
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    Keywords: 2017 ; Wirtschaftslage ; Wirtschaftsindikator ; Wirtschaftsprognose ; Indonesien
    Abstract: This Indonesia Economic Quarterly (IEQ) reports on the key developments over the past three months in Indonesia's economy as on January 2017. The return of global policy uncertainty and financial market volatility represent risks to Indonesia's growth outlook. However, Indonesia's recent economic performance and policy reforms can help weather these risks. Gross domestic product (GDP) growth eased in third quarter as government consumption fell. The current account deficit narrowed and direct investment was strong in third quarter. Domestic financial conditions remain robust despite recent global headwinds. Fiscal policy credibility was enhanced through expenditure cuts in 2016 and more realistic revenue targets in the approved 2017 Budget. Baseline projections for real GDP growth remain at 5.1 percent for 2016 and 5.3 percent in 2017. Improving the quality of public spending is critical for Indonesia to achieve its development goals in the short to medium term. Student-centered teaching practices result in better student learning outcomes
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    Series Statement: Europe and Central Asia Economic Update
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    Abstract: Public concerns in Europe and Central Asia over the recent sharp increase in asylum seekers and undocumented migrants seem to reflect a broader anxiety about reduced job security, caused by technological developments and internationalization of production and work. Policy reforms should help both migrants and non-migrants cope with increased and unavoidable flexibility in labor markets
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