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Korea experiences a traumatic and largely unanticipated economic crisis in 1997-98 from which the country is still recovering. The crisis laid bare numerous structural, economic, and policy weaknesses. The authors chronicle and analyze the key factors...

List of Illustrations Foreword Notes on the Contributors PART I: INTRODUCTION Memory, Spatial Planning and the Construction of Cultural Identity in Belfast and Berlin: An Overview; W.J.V.Neill The Urban Planning Context in Berlin: A City Twice Unique; H...

This up-to-date collection analyzes Romania's experiences of the transition form the harsh realities of the Ceausescu dictatorship to the uncertainties of the efforts to consolidate democracy and introduce a market economy. This volume focuses on...

Haider Khan's book goes beyond the study of catch-up technology and raises the question of innovation processes that are the key to the future growth and prosperity of the East Asian economies. This is particularly important in the aftermath of the Asian...

A crucial issue in the era of globalization and internationalization, is whether the relationship between investment and finance is beneficial to growth and development. Similar questions have been raised about education and its rate of social return; is...

This book seeks to raise the profile of economic perspectives on crime and criminal justice. It includes exemplars and original contributions, welded into a coherent whole by commentaries on each chapter and annotated further readings. It includes...

This comprehensive and detailed examination of the challenges faced by the newly independent state of Ukraine argues that its lackluster economic performance during the 1990s was the unfortunate result of a combination of the hasty adoption of public...

The completion of this volume would not have been possible without the generous and dedicated help of numerous people. The book had its genesis in a conference held at Cornell University in the fall of 1990 that was organized...

This guidance note shares insights on economic corridor development as an area-based approach and explores how to facilitate these multisector programs. It will be relevant to government officials, development partners, the private sector, and academia...

Pre-paid water metering pilot project was implemented in Klipheuwel, Cape Town, South Africa in 2001. It was anticipated that the implementation of pre-paid water meters would help improve the management of water service delivery in the Cape...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Geowissenschaften / Geographie - Allgemeines, Grundlagen, Note: 1,3, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Neuerungen aus den verschiedensten Bereichen beherrschen...

Examensarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Geowissenschaften / Geographie - Phys. Geogr., Geomorphologie, Umweltforschung, Note: 1,3, Bayerische Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (Physische Geographie), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Geowissenschaften / Geographie - Bevölkerungsgeographie, Stadt- u. Raumplanung, Note: 1,3, Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (Wirtschaftsgeographie), Veranstaltung: Humangeographie 3, Sprache:...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Geowissenschaften / Geographie - Bevölkerungsgeographie, Stadt- u. Raumplanung, Note: 2,0, Technische Universität Dresden, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Rückbesinnungauf die Innenstadt soll in der...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Geowissenschaften / Geographie - Phys. Geogr., Geomorphologie, Umweltforschung, Note: 2,0, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Küstenmorphologie des Wattenmeeres hat sich seit der...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Geowissenschaften / Geographie - Bevölkerungsgeographie, Stadt- u. Raumplanung, Note: 2,0, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Institut für Geographie), Veranstaltung: Weltbevölkerung -...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2021 im Fachbereich Geowissenschaften / Geographie - Phys. Geogr., Geomorphologie, Umweltforschung, Note: 1,0, Freie Universität Berlin, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit einer...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Pädagogik - Schulwesen, Bildungs- u. Schulpolitik, Note: 1,3, Universität zu Köln, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Arbeit setzt sich mit dem Thema der Bildungsbenachteiligung von Kindern mit...

Academic Paper from the year 2019 in the subject Economics - International Economic Relations, University of Lusaka (University of Lusaka), course: Economics and Finance, language: English, abstract: This paper analyses the effects of Foreign Direct...

How do you solve a problem like understanding Iraq? For Hanna Batatu, the solution to this conundrum lay in generating alternative possibilities that effectively side-stepped the conventional wisdom of the time. Historians had long held that Iraq - like...

Before the emergence of anthropology around the middle of the nineteenth century, there was no ethnography as such. But the discipline owes its formation to certain strands that go back into the remoter past of the ancient world, as far back as Homeric...

HISTORIES OF HUMAN CONSTRUCTIONS OF NATUREWild Things: Nature and the Social Imagination assembles eleven substantive and original essays on the cultural and social dimensions of environmental history. They address a global cornucopia of social and...

The global economy deteriorated in a matter of months due to governments' mishandling of the coronavirus outbreak. General observers may describe this event as "unforeseen," but they fail to look at the patterns of the past that reveal the future...

Si usted desea descubrir la fascinante historia de la Compañía Británica de las Indias Orientales, entonces continúe leyendo...Durante años, el tema de la Compañía Británica de las Indias Orientales ha fascinado a historiadores, así como a economistas,...

This book magnifies only one instance of Iran’s geopolitical role in the Persian Gulf in the interim period between the British withdrawal of forces from, and the American arrival in that region. Two centuries of Pax-Britannica was the period of...

In a world that is toying with neo-fascist tendencies, Latin America’s painful experience with fascist military governments and North American corporate capitalism should be a red flag.From 1954 to 2005, Latin America underwent social, economic,...

EVER since the story of my brother's life first appeared (January 1889) it has been constantly pressed upon me that a YOUNG FOLKS' EDITION would be highly prized. The Autobiography has therefore been re-cast and illustrated, in the hope and prayer that...