"Why does poverty persist? A critical, but so far ignored, part of the answer lies in the fact that poverty is regularly created. Large numbers of people are escaping poverty, but large numbers are concurrently falling into chronic poverty. This book presents the first large-sca…
Forest tenure reforms are occurring in many developing countries around the world. These reforms typically include devolution of forest lands to local people and communities, which has attracted a great deal of attention and interest. While the nature and level of devolution var…
A groundbreaking book that fundamentally opens the Central African Republic to African policymakers and scholars.
Informed and Healthy: Theoretical and Applied Perspectives on the Value of Information to Health Care focuses on two major issues: the value attributed to information by users and its effect on health care, and secondly, a new model of information behavior in which the value of …
Case study of an emergency relief programme organised by international organizations (incl. Voluntary organizations, FAO, UNHCR, UNICEF, WHO) in response to the influx of rural area refugees from Uganda in Southern Sudan during the early months of 1982 - covers social characteri…