Contents: 1. Economics and the economy 2. Economics and development 3. Development of the regions.
A respected international economic advisor and the director of The Earth Institute shares a wide-spectrum theory about how to enable economic success throughout the world, identifying the different categories into which various nations fall in today's economy while posing solutions to top political, environmental, and social problems that contribute to poverty.
In humanitarian Hypocrisy, Andrea L. Everett maps the often glaring differences between declared ambitions to protect civillians in conflict zones and the resources committed for doing so. Examining how powerful governments contribute to peace operations and determine how they are designed, Everett argues that ambitions-resources gaps are a form of organized hypocrisy. Her book shows how politi…
This report provides a general introduction to the problems of development as seen by the developing country. It has been produced by the South Commission, which was established in 1987, with Julius Nyerere, President of Tanzania as its Chairman and Manmohan Sing as Secretary General. This report is a follow-up to the 1983 Brandt Commission Common North-South Co-operation for World Recovery. …
From one of America's foremost economic and political thinkers comes a vital analysis of our new hypercompetitive and turbo-charged global economy and the effect it is having on American democracy. With his customary wit and insight, Reich shows how widening inequality of income and wealth, heightened job insecurity, and corporate corruption are merely the logical results of a system in which p…
A comprehensive history and analysis of the Balfour Declaration of 1917, published in the run up to its 100th anniversary. First published by Longman Green, London, this book had a short life; the entire stock and the publisher's premises were destroyed by the german blitz in 1941. ?The Balfour Declaration of 1917 is a document that profoundly affected the Middle East. Palestine: The Reality is…
In the first full-scale history of the reign of Catherine to appear in almost a century Isabel de Madariaga uses a broad range of Western and Soviet scholarship to give an authoritative account of Catherine's own role in the forward march of Russia during the eighteenth century. From her accession to the throne in 1762 Catherine ruled Russia for thirty-four years, and her greatness, de Madar…
Momo, atau dikenal juga dengan judul The Grey Gentlemen atau The Men in Grey, adalah sebuah novel beraliran fantasi karya Michael Ende, diterbitkan pada tahun 1973. Menceritakan tentang konsep waktu dan bagaimana hal itu digunakan oleh manusia dalam masyarakat modern. Judul lengkap dalam Jerman (Momo oder Die seltsame Geschichte von den Zeit-Dieben und von dem Kind, das den Menschen die gestohl…
This book contains: 1. Origin and nature of human rights 2. Universal declaration of human rights 3. Human rights and responsibilities 4. Violation of women's rights 5. Violation of child rights 6. Communal violence in India 7. Human rights scenario in Jammu and Kashmir 8. Promotion of human rights 9. United nations and human rights
In a remote corner of Indonesia’s fabled Spice Islands, Muslims and Christians have lived peacefully together for centuries. But for all their isolation and tranquility, the islanders are threatened by a gathering storm; as Indonesia is wracked by violent change, long-maintained religious harmony is unravelling and on nearby islands, Christians and Muslims fall upon one another in horrifi…