Search results for “[Subject: development-general]”

• Author(s): Rexford A. Ahene • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Investments & Securities - GeneralThis contributed volume examines development efforts in sub-Saharan Africa and the role privatization and foreign inves...

• Author(s): Neil Adams McNall • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Industries - General

• Author(s): Armand Mattelart • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Anthropology - General

• Author(s): Robert Jackson Alexander • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Political Process - General

• Author(s): David S. Jacoby • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: International - GeneralProvides a roadmap for mature industrialized countries to contribute to and benefit from global trade on new terms. Global trade is hea...

• Author(s): Rudolf F. Geyer • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralIn an effort to shed light on recent developments in sociocybernetic research, this volume represents recent and advanced thinking in this ...

• Author(s): Henry F. Jackson • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Cultural & Ethnic Studies - General

• Author(s): John E. Hansan • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Public Policy - Social Services & WelfareAs editors Morris and Hansan make clear, the United States is truly the reluctant welfare state. Unlike other indu...

• Author(s): Rhonda Phillips • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentExceptional communities possessing a definitive sense of place, the cities and towns presented in this bo...

• Author(s): Michael L. Commons • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Developmental - GeneralIn recent years, researchers have begun to focus attention on postformal thought--the development of thought in late adolescence and...

• Author(s): Susan Krauss Whitbourne • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Developmental - GeneralThis volume contains an expansion of the material dealt with in the first edition plus extensive updating that incorporates sig...

• Author(s): Carolyn Rovee-Collier • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Developmental - GeneralThe articles appearing here serve as primary references of authors' programmatic studies, providing a forum for new technological...

• Author(s): David L. McKee • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentThe advances in transportation and communications have caused and supported the emergence of a global economy. The small econ...

• Author(s): Raymond D. Gastil • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: GeneralToday, we are bombarded with calls for change, as if all change was an improvement over the status quo. Dr. Gastil challenges this view in a thorough...

• Author(s): Vivianne Ventura-Dias • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: International - GeneralThe twelve papers in this volume provide information on and analysis of trade flows among developing countries (which are mostly ...

• Author(s): Nikki Sullivan • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Beauty & Grooming - GeneralDrawing on the works of a number of postmodern theorists, this study suggests that the tattooed body is symptomatic of a general...

• Author(s): Paul Manuel • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: World - GeneralThis study examines the process of democratic political consolidation as seen in Portugal. It considers how, by solving problems and fulfilling exp...

• Author(s): Jeffrey Cantor • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Careers - GeneralIllustrates how a changing U.S. economy demands a revival of employer-based workforce training and suggests a new model of apprenticeship foun...

• Author(s): Walter Galenson • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Labor - GeneralThis work explores developments in the labor markets of five countries--South Korea, Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand, and the Philippines--which hav...

• Author(s): Paul J. Kaiser • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Africa - GeneralFocusing on the growing transnational community of Ismailis (Muslim Shi'a followers of the Aga Khan), this study analyzes the transnational and...

• Author(s): Douglas J. Watson • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Economics - GeneralTargeted federal aid to needy city areas is difficult to maintain because of political pressure to broaden geographical coverage for cont...

• Author(s): Mary Lou Da(c)Costerd • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Personal Growth - GeneralThis thought-provoking work examines the traits and stories of influential women throughout history to the present day in order...

• Author(s): Amer Salih Araim • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: International - Economics & TradeThe crisis and war in the Gulf have heightened the search for secured energy resources and proved that the Middle East i...

• Author(s): Eric Kramer • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralKramer brings together experts from a variety of minority backgrounds and from around the world to give their perspectives on the most pervasiv...

• Author(s): Gary Gereffi • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Industries - GeneralThe current restructuring of the world-economy under global capitalism has further integrated international trade and production. It thus has...

• Author(s): William Green • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Industries - GeneralThe dismantling of the Synthetic Fuels Corporation and the shelving of scores of synfuel plant proposals have triggered a need for a searchi...

• Author(s): Chad Frederick • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: GeneralA provocative look at our nation's dependency on the automobile and how its potential impact on urban design will either make or break our health, econo...

• Author(s): State Statistical Bureau Peoples Republi • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Asia - GeneralThis volume was completed to offer essential basic information on China's economic and social development in 1989, and ...

• Author(s): Lloyd Klein • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Personal Finance - GeneralThis is the first comprehensive account of the development of consumer credit. Consumer credit is a vital force driving the development ...