Author: Bola Ayeni
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic development
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Regional Development Planning and Management of Urbanization
Author: United Nations Centre for Human Settlements
Publisher: UN-HABITAT
ISBN: 9789211313468
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Publisher: UN-HABITAT
ISBN: 9789211313468
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Development Policy in Africa
Author: G. Kararach
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137360593
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
The author investigates the agenda for transformation in contemporary African development studies: policy studies, strategic studies, international relations and economic diplomacy. With a focus on the capacity dimension, he proposes critical policy and action-oriented recommendations on how to overcome present and future emergencies in Africa.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137360593
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
The author investigates the agenda for transformation in contemporary African development studies: policy studies, strategic studies, international relations and economic diplomacy. With a focus on the capacity dimension, he proposes critical policy and action-oriented recommendations on how to overcome present and future emergencies in Africa.
Proceedings of the World Bank Annual Conference on Development Economics
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Developing countries
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Developing countries
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Sharing the Burden of Sickness
Author: Jonathan Roberts
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253057922
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
In Sharing the Burden of Sickness, Jonathan Roberts examines the history of the healing cultures in Accra, Ghana. When people are sick in Accra, they can pursue a variety of therapeutic options. West African traditional healers, spiritual healers from the Islamic and Christian traditions, Western clinical medicine, and an open marketplace of over-the-counter medicine provide ample means to promote healing and preventing sickness. Each of these healing cultures had a historical point of arrival in the city of Accra, and Roberts tells the story of how they intertwined and how patients and healers worked together in their struggle against disease. By focusing on the medical history of one place, Roberts details how urban development, colonization, decolonization, and independence brought new populations to the city, where they shared their ideas about sickness and health. Sharing the Burden of Sickness explores medical history during important periods in Accra's history. Roberts not only introduces readers to a wide range of ideas about health but also charts a course for a thoroughly pluralistic culture of healing in the future, especially with the spread of new epidemics of HIV/AIDS and ebola.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253057922
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
In Sharing the Burden of Sickness, Jonathan Roberts examines the history of the healing cultures in Accra, Ghana. When people are sick in Accra, they can pursue a variety of therapeutic options. West African traditional healers, spiritual healers from the Islamic and Christian traditions, Western clinical medicine, and an open marketplace of over-the-counter medicine provide ample means to promote healing and preventing sickness. Each of these healing cultures had a historical point of arrival in the city of Accra, and Roberts tells the story of how they intertwined and how patients and healers worked together in their struggle against disease. By focusing on the medical history of one place, Roberts details how urban development, colonization, decolonization, and independence brought new populations to the city, where they shared their ideas about sickness and health. Sharing the Burden of Sickness explores medical history during important periods in Accra's history. Roberts not only introduces readers to a wide range of ideas about health but also charts a course for a thoroughly pluralistic culture of healing in the future, especially with the spread of new epidemics of HIV/AIDS and ebola.
African Seminars
Author: Various Authors
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429812760
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 2446
Book Description
Originally published between 1986 and 1989 the 8 volumes in this set reflect the research and debate surrounding many issues for the African economy, society and culture and as such make a vital contribution to effective development, both rural and urban. They re-issue key titles from the International African Library and the International African Seminars and address themes of direct relevance to contemporary Africa on topics as diverse as medicine, migration, housing, pastorialism and marriage.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429812760
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 2446
Book Description
Originally published between 1986 and 1989 the 8 volumes in this set reflect the research and debate surrounding many issues for the African economy, society and culture and as such make a vital contribution to effective development, both rural and urban. They re-issue key titles from the International African Library and the International African Seminars and address themes of direct relevance to contemporary Africa on topics as diverse as medicine, migration, housing, pastorialism and marriage.
Strengthening African Local Initiative
Author: Donald S. Rothchild
Publisher: GIGA-Hamburg
ISBN: 9783928049269
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Publisher: GIGA-Hamburg
ISBN: 9783928049269
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Social Policy in Sub-Saharan African Context
Author: J. Adésínà
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230590985
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
This volume reviews Africa's past experiences of social policy, with an eye on the future. Contributions examine a range of social policy issues around healthcare, education, the labour market and social welfare, and highlight important conceptual and policy issues for rebuilding Africa.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230590985
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
This volume reviews Africa's past experiences of social policy, with an eye on the future. Contributions examine a range of social policy issues around healthcare, education, the labour market and social welfare, and highlight important conceptual and policy issues for rebuilding Africa.
Seminar on National Development and Regional Policy
Author:
Publisher:
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Category : Industrial promotion
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial promotion
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Desert Development
Author: Yehuda Gradus
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400953968
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
The fact that approximately one-third of the world's land mass is arid desert may be congenial for the camel and the cactus, but not for people. Nevertheless, well over half a billion people, or 15% of the world's population live in arid desert areas. If the world's population were distributed evenly over the land surface, we would expect to find about 30% of the population inhabiting arid desert areas. Does the fact that 'only' 15% of the world's population live in an arid desert environment reflect the harshness of the environment? Or is it a testimony to the adaptability and ingenuity of mankind? Do we view the glass as half-full? Or half-empty? The contributors to Desert Development: Man and Technology in Sparselands adopt the position that the cup is half-full and, in fact, could be filled much more. Indeed, many arid desert zones do thrive with life, and given appropriate technological develop ment, such areas could support even greater popUlations. While the dire Malthusian prediction that rapid world population growth exceeds the carrying capacity of existent resource systems has gained popularity (typified by the 1972 Club of Rome book, Limits to Growth), there is a growing body of serious work which rejects such pessimistic 'depletion' models, in favor of models which are mildly optimistic.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400953968
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
The fact that approximately one-third of the world's land mass is arid desert may be congenial for the camel and the cactus, but not for people. Nevertheless, well over half a billion people, or 15% of the world's population live in arid desert areas. If the world's population were distributed evenly over the land surface, we would expect to find about 30% of the population inhabiting arid desert areas. Does the fact that 'only' 15% of the world's population live in an arid desert environment reflect the harshness of the environment? Or is it a testimony to the adaptability and ingenuity of mankind? Do we view the glass as half-full? Or half-empty? The contributors to Desert Development: Man and Technology in Sparselands adopt the position that the cup is half-full and, in fact, could be filled much more. Indeed, many arid desert zones do thrive with life, and given appropriate technological develop ment, such areas could support even greater popUlations. While the dire Malthusian prediction that rapid world population growth exceeds the carrying capacity of existent resource systems has gained popularity (typified by the 1972 Club of Rome book, Limits to Growth), there is a growing body of serious work which rejects such pessimistic 'depletion' models, in favor of models which are mildly optimistic.
Symposium on "Mabogunje on Development and Development Policy"
Author: Bola Ayeni
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic development
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic development
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description