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TECHNOLOGICAL INDEPENDENCE

Technological Independence

The Asian Experience

1 Nov 1997
Focusing on the importance of technology as a key to development, this volume examines the experiences, efforts and perspectives of technological development in six Asian countries: China, India, Japan, Korea, the Philippines and Thailand.
UNCERTAIN QUEST SCIENCE TECHN

Uncertain Quest, The

Science, Technology and Development

1 Nov 1997
Science and technology have long played a key role in social development. In modern times they have come to be seen as absolutely essential factors in the achievement of economic growth and development. This seminal sourcebook gathers together the perspectives and expertise of an international bo...
REGIONAL MECHANISMS & INTL SECURIT

Regional Mechanisms and International Security in Latin America

9 Jan 1998
This publication offers a new perspective on the contemporary debate in the area of international security in Latin America and the Caribbean. It examines many questions such as: Does the end of the Cold War modify the US interests in Latin America in the field of security? Should existing mechan...
ENVIRO ENERGY & ECON STRATEGIES

Environment, Energy and Economy

Strategies for Sustainability

14 Nov 1997
Scholars and policy makers dealing with energy and sustainable development issues will find this book invaluable. It discusses short- and long-term measures for the economy and the directions of development in developing as well as industrialized countries. Various aspects of the interrelationshi...
REGIONALIZATION IN EAST ASIA-PACIF

Regionalization in East Asia-Pacific

An Exclusive Process

Series:
World Development Studies
1 Aug 1997
East Asian regionalism is often described as de facto regionalism, whereas regionalization is supposed to take place de jure in Europe and North America. This publication presents a study on regionalization and regional cooperation in East Asia in general and in Southeast Asia in particular. It a...
FRESHWATER RESOURCES IN ARID LANDS

Freshwater Resources in Arid Lands

14 Nov 1997
Fresh water is a critical resource for all aspects of human existence and development. Demand for fresh water is growing rapidly worldwide and since the beginning of this century its consumption has increased almost ten-fold. This publication focuses on the limited freshwater resources in arid la...
NEW EUROPE THE CHANGING GLOBAL SYS

New Europe in the Changing Global System, A

6 Jun 1997
In this publication, a group of distinguished scholars from a range of disciplines and geographical backgrounds reflect on the centrality of the recent European experience to the global community today. They look at the new Europe that is emerging in the wake of the geopolitical sea-change which ...
REGIONALIZATION IN SOUTHERN AFRICA

Regionalization in Southern Africa

Series:
World Development Studies
9 May 1997
This state-of-the-art publication offers great insight into the economic, security and environmental regionalization in southern Africa. In utilizing the concept of 'new regionalization'- a change from relative heterogeneity to increased homogeneity, this publication analyzes the regional integra...
MANAGING WATER FOR PEACE THE MIDDL

Managing Water for Peace in the Middle East

Alternative Strategies

21 Mar 1997
To the basic question of how to sustain the region's most important resource, water, this study provides some innovative technological answers. It considers several non-conventional approaches that have the potential to resolve the water issue and no less important, contribute to making peace amo...
ELUSIVE MIRACLE: LATIN AMERICA IN

Elusive Miracle, The

Latin America in the 1990's

Series:
World Development Studies
21 Mar 1997
Countries enjoying more liberty at home, more material well-being, more solidarity from abroad - these are the `good times' for most of Latin America. But democracy is not sufficiently distinguished from populism, there is a persistent international solitude and economic progress has not been sec...
HYDROPOL ALONG THE JORDAN RIVER

Hydropolitics Along the Jordan River

Scarce Water and Its Impact on the Arab-Israeli Conflict

11 Apr 1997
This book argues that the Jordan River watershed - a region where some of the worst Arab-Israeli conflicts have occurred - might be the very place to bury ancient hatreds and work to give birth to new and more enlightened environmental collaborations. The river runs through the peace talks - or i...
NEW GLOBALISM & DEV CTRIES

New Globalism and Developing Countries, The

21 Mar 1997
The global economy of the 1990s is being driven by cross-border investments and cooperative business ventures on an unprecedented scale. The impact of globalization of business on developing countries is the focus of this book. Who are the probable winners and losers? How are governments respondi...
CHINA IN THE TWENTY FIRST CENTURY

China in the Twenty-First Century

Politics, Economy and Society

21 Mar 1997
This landmark publication discusses the 'landscape' of China in the 21st Century. China has undergone surprising changes during the era of the People's Republic of China, especially during the past fifteen years, a period during which it began to shift from a centrally planned economy to a market...
NORTH EAST ASIAN REGIONAL SECURITY

North-East Asian Regional Security

The Role of International Institutions

27 Dec 1996
North-East Asia is a region where both economic dynamism and power contestation are intensely manifested. Presented in the form of essays, this publication investigates the role that international institutions can or might play in certain enduring and developing security problems in North-East Asia.
WOMEN & KINSHIP COMPARATIVE PER

Women and Kinship

Comparative Perspective on Gender in South and South-East Asia

9 May 1997
This is the first sustained effort to work out a comparison between South and Southeast Asia in respect of the situation of women. Arguing that kinship systems provide an important context in which gender relations are located, the study looks at three types of kinship system, found in their vari...
IMPACT CHAOS SCIENCE & SOCIETY

Impact of Chaos on Science and Society, The

10 Jan 1997
Given the varied nature of applications where chaos is important, it is natural that many researchers in a broad range of fields have become interested in, and have contributed to recent developments in chaos and have used this development to solve problems in their own fields. This special book ...
ENVIRO BIODIVERSITY & AGRICULTURAL

Environment, Biodiversity and Agricultural Change in West Africa

Perspectives from Ghana

27 Dec 1996
West Africa is a diverse region which has a dominantly rural economy centred on agriculture that traditionally was closely adapted to the dynamic biophysical environment. This publication discusses how indigenous resource management and land use systems adapt to environmental change, with a view ...
NEPAL HIMALAYAN KINGDOM TRANSITION

Nepal

A Himalayan Kingdom in Transition

18 Oct 1996
It was in the mid-l950's that Nepal took its first concrete steps towards development. This book describes the growth and change that have occurred in this Himalayan kingdom from that time until the present. It sheds light on some of the most crucial issues facing the Kingdom as it continues its ...
SUSTAINING THE FUTURE ECON

Sustaining the Future

Economic, Social and Environmental Change in Sub-Saharan Africa

18 Oct 1996
A new and special book which gives a unique focus on sustainable environmental and resource management development in the Sub-Saharan African region in the medium-term future. We are shown the need for policies aimed at poverty eradication and equitable economic development. We learn of the impor...
CHANGING PATTERNS OF EMPLOYMENT AN

Changing Patterns of Employment and Unemployment in Africa

Series:
World Development Studies
21 Mar 1997
The research project, in the framework of which this study has been written, focuses on the Sub-Saharan African countries and looks at the different aspects of the unemployment problem. Among the key questions looked at is the direction of the structural changes in output and their implications f...
URBAN CHALLENGE IN AFRICA

Urban Challenge in Africa, The

Growth and Management of its Large Cities

20 Jun 1997
Scholars from a range of national and disciplinary backgrounds examine the growth of the largest cities in Africa: their characteristics, their dynamism despite economic crisis and the outcomes of attempts to manage them.
MEGA CITY IN LATIN AMERICA

Mega-city in Latin America, The

1 Nov 1996
The sheer number of people living in Latin America's mega-cities is not the only reason for looking at them carefully. Unfortunately, they also demonstrate many of the worst symptoms of the region's underdevelopment: vast areas of shantytowns, huge numbers of poor people, high concentrations of a...
POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE PEACE PRO

Political Economy of the Peace Process in a Changing Middle East, The

Series:
World Development Studies
21 Mar 1997
In the Middle East, the interaction between economic and political factors, issues and processes have always been strong. The fact that this region became a fundamentally important source of oil, brought it into the most direct and strategic interests of the Western world. The peace process betwe...
TRADE, TRADE POLICY AND INDUSTRIAL

Trade, Trade Policy and Industrialization Reconsidered

Series:
World Development Studies
21 Mar 1997
This study is the report of an important project on the interrelations between trade, industrialization and development. The project was initiated in order to look at the subject in the new era of the global economy. This was marked on the one hand by important spatial, structural, and organizati...
LIMITS OF THE GLOBAL VILLAGE, THE

Limits of the Global Village, The

Globalization, Nations and the State

Series:
World Development Studies
21 Mar 1997
This study, which deals with some of the general aspects of globalization focuses on the globalization process from a Latin American perspective. It shows that Latin America belongs to the hemisphere which has probably been more exposed to the different dimensions of globalization in the developi...
ECONOMIC REFORMS, WOMENS EMPLOYMEN

Economic Reforms, Women's Employment, and Social Policies

Series:
World Development Studies
21 Mar 1997
The volume, while focusing on the consequences of reforms, also deals with the structural changes which are taking place as a result of export orientation in the economies and their dual impact on women in the environment of four countries: China, Viet Nam, Egypt and Cuba.
FOOD SECURITY IN AFRICA

Food Security in Africa

Series:
World Development Studies
21 Mar 1997
The study is an important policy-oriented contribution to the analysis and the solution of the problems of food security in a macroeconomic dimension. It draws attention to factors related to the shortcomings of agricultural policies, pricing, marketing, taxation, the neglect of investments in ag...
EMERGING LABOUR MARKETS

Emerging Labour Markets

Series:
World Development Studies
21 Mar 1997
The study explains the background of the changes taking place in the former socialist countries and looks at the problems, causes and consequences of unemployment. The overview on the successor states of the former Soviet Union is a particularly interesting contribution to the understanding of th...
SMALL ISLANDS, BIG ISSUES

Small Islands, Big Issues

Crucial Issues in the Sustainable Development of Small Developing Islands

Series:
World Development Studies
21 Mar 1997
This publication comprises six case studies which were prepared for the Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States. The case studies deal with the following topics: alternative energy sources of relevance to small islands; tourism and sustainable developmen...
POPULATION LAND MANAGEMENT & ENV

Population, Land Management and Environment Change

26 Jul 1996
The topics covered in this new publication include the need to conserve biological diversity in managed agricultural ecosystems; indigenous knowledge in sustainable management of biological and land resources; the role of women; and participatory approaches to rural development. We are shown that...