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The Great Tin Crash traces the story of tin: from the rise of the tin can, through the collapse of the tin market, to the present.
Author : John Crabtree
Publisher : Latin America Bureau (Lab)
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 37,47 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
The Great Tin Crash traces the story of tin: from the rise of the tin can, through the collapse of the tin market, to the present.
Author : John Crabtree
Publisher : Latin America Bureau (Lab)
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 44,93 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
The Great Tin Crash traces the story of tin: from the rise of the tin can, through the collapse of the tin market, to the present.
Author : Selwyn Parker
Publisher : Piatkus
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 11,85 MB
Release : 2010-09-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0748122311
This is the story of the financial cataclysm that started with the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929, and set in motion a series of economic, political and social events that affected many millions of people in America, Britain, Europe and Australia. The Crash rolled across the world like a tidal wave, toppling governments, spreading the wave of dictatorships in Italy and Germany, infecting entire industries and plunging millions into unemployment and poverty. By the time it began to lift in 1935, the lives of people in scores of countries had changed forever. Selwyn Parker's book also poses the question: could it happen again?
Author : Teresa Hayter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 13,32 MB
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1134070586
How do ''types'' of aid differ? Why are there different kinds? When is one more appropriate than another? How can you tell ''good'' aid from ''bad''? Friends of the Earth commissioned Teresa Hayter, author of Aid as Imperialism and Aid: Rhetoric and Reality, to examine Britain's aid policy and practice, paying particular attention to its effects on the worlds forests. In this book she describes the history of the different forms of aid and their effects. On behalf of one of the West's most effective environmental lobbies, Exploited Earth show how and why British aid needs to change. Originally published in 1989
Author : Richard Auty
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 12,60 MB
Release : 2002-09-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1134867905
This highlights the drawbacks of possessing natural mineral resources. These can quickly become a curse on the ore-exporting economies of developing countries leading to drainage of resources and the faltering of long term growth
Author : James Painter
Publisher : United Nations University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,4 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Bolivia
ISBN : 9789280808568
Author : Michael Painter
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 24,38 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780472065608
An important and timely study of environmental degradation in Central and South America
Author : Marcia Stephenson
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 38,27 MB
Release : 2010-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0292786980
In Andean Bolivia, racial and cultural differences are most visibly marked on women, who often still wear native dress and speak an indigenous language rather than Spanish. In this study of modernity in Bolivia, Marcia Stephenson explores how the state's desire for a racially and culturally homogenous society has been deployed through images of womanhood that promote the notion of an idealized, acculturated female body. Stephenson engages a variety of texts—critical essays, novels, indigenous testimonials, education manuals, self-help pamphlets, and position papers of diverse women's organizations—to analyze how the interlocking tropes of fashion, motherhood, domestication, hygiene, and hunger are used as tools for the production of dominant, racialized ideologies of womanhood. At the same time, she also uncovers long-standing patterns of resistance to the modernizing impulse, especially in the large-scale mobilization of indigenous peoples who have made it clear that they will negotiate the terms of modernity, but always "as Indians."
Author : Peter Calvert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 11,30 MB
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1317865944
In a world seemingly surfing a wave of unprecedented affluence, it is sobering to be reminded that only thirty out of nearly two hundred countries can really be classified as advanced industrialized countries. Eighty per cent of the world's population lives in the developing world. This popular, concise introduction scrutinises the developing world, its varied political institutions and the key social, economic and environmental issues at the heart of contemporary debates. Wide-ranging and clearly written, Politics and Society in the Developing World begins by providing a brisk survey of the major theoretical and methodological interpretations of the social impact of development. It then details the factors which determine the parameters of the developing world before moving on to examine its infrastructure and the crises currently facing it. The book also covers the social and economic contexts of developing societies, the international arena and its impact on the developing world, state-building and the tension between dictatorship and democratization. The book focuses on four policy areas: aid, trade, tourism and the environment.
Author : Benjamin Kohl
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 15,43 MB
Release : 2008-02-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1848131453
Bolivia has experienced two decades of unprecedented popular resistance to the consequences of neoliberal policies, resulting in the resignation and flight of its president in October 2003. This unusual book uncovers the reasons and processes behind the rising opposition - mirrored in country after country in Latin America - to this currently fashionable, internationally prescribed approach to economic development. It explores the problems faced by governments in reproducing global strategies at the national level, the tensions between markets and democracy, state restructuring, citizenship and property rights. It points to the problems inherent in retaining neoliberalism as the dominant paradigm in Latin America for the foreseeable future and the unlikely prospect of it putting down real roots of approval and legitimacy.