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

• Author(s): Gordon F. Shea • Publisher: Praeger Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Praeger Publishers • BISAC: Labor - GeneralRecently published figures predict that the number of employed individuals between the ages of 55 and 64 will increase by ...

• Author(s): Senyo B. S. K. Adjibolosoo • Publisher: Praeger Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Praeger Publishers • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralFor many decades post-colonial leaders in developing countries have tried various development plans based ...

• Author(s): Volker Bornschier • Publisher: Praeger Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Praeger Publishers • BISAC: Industries - GeneralDo investments by multinational corporations in less developed countries enhance or hinder economic development in...

• Author(s): R. A. Obudho • Publisher: Praeger Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Praeger Publishers • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralCharacterized by the rapid growth of spontaneous squatter settlements, the urbanization process in Africa differs substa...

• Author(s): Andrea L. Kavanaugh • Publisher: Praeger Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Praeger Publishers • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentIn order to improve productivity and economic development, developing countries have been expandin...

• Author(s): David H. Lempert • Publisher: Praeger Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Praeger Publishers • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentHere is a comprehensive development plan written as if vital communities, indigenous peoples, women, ...

• Author(s): D. Paul Schafer • Publisher: Praeger Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Praeger Publishers • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialCulture is essential to everything we do and is going to play a very significant role in the world o...

• Author(s): F. Gerard Adams • Publisher: Praeger Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Praeger Publishers • BISAC: Economics - GeneralThe East Asian Crisis of 1997 and the following economic meltdown has raised new questions about the role of public p...

• Author(s): Robert W. Preer • Publisher: Praeger Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Praeger Publishers • BISAC: Industries - GeneralThis study examines the rise of the technopolis--high technology-based regional development. It explores how and why...

• Author(s): Sunil K. Sahu • Publisher: Praeger Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Praeger Publishers • BISAC: Industries - GeneralTo understand technological dependence and self-reliance in the manufacturing industries of the Third World, Sahu test...

• Author(s): Anil Hira • Publisher: Praeger Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Praeger Publishers • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentEconomic matters entered a new phase of importance in the wake of the Cold War. Concerns within development-...

• Author(s): Raphael Shen • Publisher: Bloomsbury • Publisher Imprint: Greenwood • Subject: Economics • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentBoth Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping drastically altered the course of contemporary China's economic dev...

• Author(s): Pat Duffy Hutcheon • Publisher: Praeger Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Praeger Publishers • BISAC: Philosophy, Theory & Social AspectsIf we are ever to solve the problems of society we must understand how humans function as both...

• Author(s): Charles E. Watson • Publisher: Praeger Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Praeger Publishers • BISAC: Management - GeneralA management professor and a religion professor team up to provide a fresh, penetrating look at the obstacles that...

• Author(s): Candy Schwartz • Publisher: Praeger Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Praeger Publishers • BISAC: System Administration - Storage & RetrievalSearch engines, subject gateways, descriptive metadata, Web cataloging--everyone is lookin...

• Author(s): James J. Cooke • Publisher: Praeger Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Praeger Publishers • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War IWhen the United States entered the Great War in April of 1917, there were few officers with any staff t...

• Author(s): Kui-Wai Li • Publisher: Praeger Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Praeger Publishers • BISAC: Investments & Securities - GeneralThe performance of various types of capital resources in the economic reforms of China are of great int...

• Author(s): Brian Weinstein • Publisher: Praeger Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Praeger Publishers • BISAC: Political Process - GeneralPolitical systems seek to bring about improvement in people's lives; but politics in Haiti has only made the ...

• Author(s): Marilyn Daniels • Publisher: Praeger Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Praeger Publishers • BISAC: GeneralOne of the foremost authorities on the use of sign language with hearing children provides a guide for teachers and parents who w...

• Author(s): Frederick A. Preager • Publisher: Praeger Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Praeger Publishers • BISAC: Industries - GeneralNot too long ago, only poets and dreamers imagined a world without hunger and starvation. Today, the world's ex...

• Author(s): Martin Sicker • Publisher: Praeger Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Praeger Publishers • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralSicker explores the political history of the Middle East from antiquity to the Arab conquest from a geopolitical perspect...

• Author(s): Avner Falk • Publisher: Praeger Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Praeger Publishers • BISAC: American Government - Executive BranchAn internationally noted clinical psychologist offers readers the first psychological biography of Bara...

• Author(s): Vera Eccarius-Kelly • Publisher: Praeger Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Praeger Publishers • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - GeneralThis extensive examination of the Kurdish conflict in Turkey, Iraq, Germany, and the EU focuses on the...

• Author(s): David Jaffee • Publisher: Praeger Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Praeger Publishers • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentAdvanced undergraduates, graduate students, and social scientists interested in a wide-ranging but concis...

• Author(s): Kerry N. Jacoby • Publisher: Praeger Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Praeger Publishers • BISAC: American Government - GeneralJacoby provides a comprehensive social history of the abortion abolition campaign from its beginnings follo...

• Author(s): William C. Spragens • Publisher: Praeger Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Praeger Publishers • BISAC: Television - GeneralFrom the Back CoverThis study examines the phenomenon of the "electronic magazine" and shows how the soft news p...

• Author(s): Kartik C. Roy • Publisher: Praeger Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Praeger Publishers • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentAfter reviewing theories about how women are likely to fare as a result of economic development, the edi...

• Author(s): Kartik C. Roy • Publisher: Praeger Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Praeger Publishers • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentAfter reviewing theories about how women are likely to fare as a result of economic development, the edi...

• Author(s): A. Martin Wainwright • Publisher: Praeger Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Praeger Publishers • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralThis book considers the forces that shaped India's postwar position as a major power. It examines the growth ...

• Author(s): Kathleen Odell Korgen • Publisher: Praeger Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Praeger Publishers • BISAC: Minority StudiesIs a person with both a white and African American parent black? Thirty years ago in American society the answer w...

• Author(s): Barbara Mann • Publisher: Praeger Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Praeger Publishers • BISAC: Indigenous - GeneralFor the first time, an accomplished scholar offers a painstakingly researched examination of the United States' involve...

• Author(s): Kuotsai Tom Liou • Publisher: Praeger Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Praeger Publishers • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentFrom 1965 to 1990, the 23 East Asian economies grew faster than all other regions of the world. The h...

• Author(s): Nana K. Poku • Publisher: Praeger Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Praeger Publishers • BISAC: Comparative PoliticsWith the end of white-dominated South Africa, many observers have argued for a positive transformation of the whole of ...

• Author(s): Kenneth L. Hacker • Publisher: Praeger Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Praeger Publishers • BISAC: Political Process - Campaigns & ElectionsSince Nimmo and Savage's groundbreaking work, Candidates and Their Images (1976), there h...

• Author(s): R. Omotayo Olaniyan • Publisher: Praeger Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Praeger Publishers • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentThis book is a penetrating comparative analysis of the economic development efforts of West Africa...

• Author(s): Daniel G. Russo • Publisher: Praeger Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Praeger Publishers • BISAC: Europe - MedievalRelying heavily on primary literary sources and archaeological scholarship, this study sheds new light on the developme...