An argument in favor of finding a place for humans (and humanness) in the future digital economy. In the digital economy, accountants, baristas, and cashiers can be automated out of employment; so can surgeons, airline pilots, and cab drivers. Machines will be able to do these j…
Towards a theory of development
Is it possible to explain and predict the development of living things? What is development? Articulate answers to these seemingly innocuous questions are far from straightforward. To date, no systematic, targeted effort has been made to construct a unifying theory of developmen…
Abstract: En la discusión sobre las posibilidades de desarrollo del cultivo agroindustrial de la palma aceitera en la Amazonía peruana se plasman varios de los principales debates modernos sobre modelos de desarrollo rural ambientalmente sostenibles y socioeconómicamente inclusi…
Angola: from Afro-Stalinism to petro-diamond capitalism
by Hodges, Tony
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Part 1: War and the Impact of External Aid 2. Today's Wars and the Pursuit of justice 3. Characteristics of Conflict Areas 4. Aid's impact on Conflict Through Resource Transfers 5. Aid's impact on Conflict Through Implicit Ethical Messages 6. Framework for Analyzing Aid's I…
CONTENTS. Culture shock. Press-ganged! Spiritual affairs. Cradle to grave. Custom and practice. Jamboree capers. Jolly good company? Social services. Heavy weather. Tales of the cat. A new deal. Fire disaster. Kuwait to Beirut. Assassination plot. Forty years on. …
This book addresses the extant gap in scholarship in the field and includes a chapter on impact evaluation, which current scholarship has either ignored or footnoted. In addition, the book uses case studies from both the global south and the global north to attend to complex and…
Introduction: The struggle for human rights in Africa, Paul Tiyambe Zeleza. Part I: Universalism and relativism in human rights discourse 1. Restraining universalism: Africanist perspectives on cultural relativism in the human rights discourse, Bonny Ibhawoh. 2. Toward a theor…
Saugestad examines the relationship between the government of Botswana and its indigenous minority, variously known as Bushmen, San, Basarwa, or more recently Noakwe.
Saugestad examines the relationship between the government of Botswana and its indigenous minority, variously known as Bushmen, San, Basarwa, or more recently Noakwe.