Spring 2002


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This semiannual journal from the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA) provides a forum for influential economists and policymakers from the region to share high-quality research directly applied to policy issues within and among those countries.Contents include:Globalization Hazard and Delayed Reform in Emerging MarketsGuillermo Calvo (Inter-American Development Bank)The Politics of Legal ReformFlorencio Lopez de Silanes (Yale University and NBER)Inflation Targeting in Chile, Brazil, and Mexico: Performance, Credibility, and the Exchange RateAlejandro Werner (Banco de Mexico) and Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel (Banco Central de Chile)Telecommunications Reform, Access Regulation, and Internet Adoption in Latin America Antonio Estache (World Bank and Ecares), Marco Manacorda (London School of Economics and CEP), and Tommaso M. Valletti (Imperial College Management School and CPR)Equity and Educational Performance: Evidence from Bolivia and ChileComments by Miguel Urquiola and Omar AriasEvaluating the Impact of School Decentralization on Education QualityComments by Eric A. Hanushek and Mariano Tommasi







Computer Gaming World


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The Condition of Education


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Includes a section called Program and plans which describes the Center's activities for the current fiscal year and the projected activities for the succeeding fiscal year.




Digest of Education Statistics


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Contains information on a variety of subjects within the field of education statistics, including the number of schools and colleges, enrollments, teachers, graduates, educational attainment, finances, Federal funds for education, libraries, international education, and research and development.




The European Environmental Conscience in EU Politics


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Based on empirical studies of European energy and environmental policies, this book suggests that, in combination, these two policy fields form a consensus in the EU which might also become the basis for a new European ideology, namely European ‘sustainabilism’. It asks why an environmental conscience has grown since the late 1960s in the industrialised world and shows that whilst there is undeniable environmental degradation during this time, and that a European environmental conscience has mainly developed through successive steps of European integration in energy policy. In this connection between energy and the environmental we find one driver for European integration and indeed European identity. If sustainabilism should become a European ideology, it will substantially influence the way future Europeans will live. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of European Studies, International Relations, Political Science, History, Economics, Sustainability Studies, Environmental and Energy Policies in Europe.




Place Matters


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Analyzes the problematic trends facing America's cities and older suburbs and challenges us to put America's urban crisis back on the national agenda.







Almost Like Spring


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With brilliantly vivid irony, a mosaic of voices tells the true story of Switzerland's most notorious bank robbers: Kurt Sandweg and Waldemar Velte. As 1933 draws to a close, the pair arrive in Basel from Wuppertal, Germany. Rebels on the run, they are searching for an escape from the confines of a callously regimented society left impoverished by the Depression and the onset of Nazi power. However, their desperation leads them to a realm outside reality, on a destructive path of vengeance for the world's abhorrent lack of justice. Resolute on their doomed mission, neither expected to fall in love. Seen through the benign eyes of Dorly Schupp, the agonising humanity of their relationships are sharply juxtaposed against the reckless cruelty of their crimes. Yet in a world equally heartless and unremitting, who should shoulder the blame? Capus relates the portrait of these chillingly charismatic figures in a curious blend of documentary and narrative where precision of detail collides with an economy of emotion, and leaves the desolation of their situation stark and blindingly poignant. Suspended between the tragic and comic, Capus's novel mimics the absurd idiosyncrasies of life where often nothing but interpretation is left to determine the sacred from the profane.




Development Outreach


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