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las cooperativas como factor de desarrollo en zonas desfavorecidas

Putting development first

the importance of policy space in the WTO and IFIs

Formulación y evaluación de proyectos

Informe sobre desarrollo humano 2005

la cooperación internacional ante una encrucijada : ayuda al desarrollo, comercio y seguridad en un mundo desigual

Organización económica internacional y globalización

los organismos internacionales en la economía mundial

Alianzas contra la pobreza

la acción de las ONGD para alcanzar los objetivos del milenio

África y desarrollo

Ajuste estructural Informe SAPRI

una investigación participativa realizada por la Sociedad Civil y el Banco Mundial

Tendencias de la cooperación para el desarrollo y futuro de las ONGD

El debate sobre la eficacia de la cooperación española al desarrollo en la actualidad

Insurance against poverty

Poor people in developing countries are often affected by droughts, floods, illness, crop failure, job loss, and economic downturns. Informal insurance mechanisms provide some protection, but are weak in the face of major or recurring calamities. Most people cannot obtain formal insurance, and the lack ...

Globalization and growth

case studies in national economic strategies

This text contains cases developed for use in teaching international political economy at the Harvard Business School. They represent the major developmental trajectories that have defined the recent history of economic growth. These cases empirically describe the strategies of China, India, Japan, Mexico, South Africa ...

Economic development finance

Economic Development Finance is a comprehensive and in-depth presentation of private, public, and community financial institutions, policies and methods for financing local and regional economic development projects. The treatment of policies and program models emphasizes their applications and impact, key design and management issues, and ...

The plain language guide to the world summit on sustainable development

The World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg in 2002 brought together thousands of delegates with the goal of mapping out the future of the global sustainable development agenda. The resulting 54-page technical document, the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation (JPOI), outlining government priorities and ...

The travels of a T-shirt in the global economy

an economist examines the markets, power, and politics of world trade

The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy takes the reader on a fascinating, around-the-world journey to reveal the economic and political lessons from the life story of a simple t-shirt. Over five years, business professor Pietra Rivoli traveled from a Texas cotton field ...

La relaciones de la UE con sus vecinos mediterráneos

entre la frustración y la esperanza

El Mediterráneo muestra una preocupante imagen de inestabilidad y escaso desarrollo, con brechas crecientes entre ambas orillas. A los factores estructurales ya conocidos, con el conflicto árabe-israelí a la cabeza, se unen la inseguridad generada por la ilegal campaña militar contra Iraq y la amenaza ...

Ending global poverty

a guide to what works

Two out of every three people in the world live on less than two dollars a day. This is a grim statistic but hundreds of millions of people are breaking free from poverty with the help of grass-roots programs and organizations funded by regular people ...

Communities and communication

building urban partnerships

This book compares three great cities of the South, Nairobi, Colombo and Rio de Janeiro, to explore how local government interacts with the communities of the cities, and to discover how communication can lead to partnership. The authors explore what partnership means, arguing that it ...

Methods in development research

combinig qualitative and quantitative approaches

Over the past decade there has been an increasingly receptive audience for participatory and qualitative research methods by policy makers, development practitioners and academics working in applied research. At the same time there is an increasing awareness that the value of research can be enhanced ...

Small customers, big market

commercial banks in microfinance