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Horizontal Inequalities And Conflict - Understanding Group Violence In Multiethnic Societies

118,59€ + 10% CARD

 Drawing on econometric evidence and in-depth studies of West Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia, this book explores how horizontal inequalities - ethnic, religious or racial - are a source of violent conflict and how political, economic and cultural status inequalities have contributed. Policies to reverse inequality would reduce these risks.
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Understanding Collective Political Violence

118,59€ + 10% CARD

 Understanding Collective Political Violence offers a unique view on contemporary processes of violent political mobilization across continents:Â Africa, Latin America, South East Asia and the Middle East. It pays particular attention to unconventional combatants such as women or children and details the drivers of their violent engagement.
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Ethnicity And The Persistence Of Inequality - The Case Of Peru

by M. Paredes e R. Thorp

59,61€ + 10% CARD

 Understanding why inequality is so great and has persevered for centuries in a number of Latin American countries requires tools that go beyond economics. Investigating the case of Peru, this book explores how inequality is embedded in institutions that constitute the interface between the economy, the polity and geography of the country.
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Preventing Violent Conflict In Africa - Inequalities, Perceptions And Institutions

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 Horizontal inequalities are root causes of violent conflict in Africa.
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Horizontal Inequalities And Conflict - Understanding Group Violence In Multiethnic Societies

121,66€ + 10% CARD

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 Drawing on econometric evidence and in-depth studies of West Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia, this book explores how horizontal inequalities - ethnic, religious or racial - are a source of violent conflict and how political, economic and cultural status inequalities have contributed. Policies to reverse inequality would reduce these risks.
ENGLISH

Understanding Collective Political Violence

121,66€ + 10% CARD

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 Understanding Collective Political Violence offers a unique view on contemporary processes of violent political mobilization across continents:Â Africa, Latin America, South East Asia and the Middle East. It pays particular attention to unconventional combatants such as women or children and details the drivers of their violent engagement.
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Horizontal Inequalities And Post-Conflict Development

118,59€ + 10% CARD

 This book evaluates the extent to which post-conflict reconstruction has addressed problems of horizontal inequalities through country case studies on Burundi, Rwanda, Nepal, Peru, Guatemala, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Afghanistan, and four thematic studies on macro-economic policies, privatisation, PRSP's, and employment generation.
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Preventing Violent Conflict In Africa - Inequalities, Perceptions And Institutions

59,61€ + 10% CARD

 Horizontal inequalities are root causes of violent conflict in Africa.
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Preventing Violent Conflict In Africa - Inequalities, Perceptions And Institutions

60,82€ + 10% CARD

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 Horizontal inequalities are root causes of violent conflict in Africa.
ENGLISH

Horizontal Inequalities And Post-Conflict Development

121,66€ + 10% CARD

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 This book evaluates the extent to which post-conflict reconstruction has addressed problems of horizontal inequalities through country case studies on Burundi, Rwanda, Nepal, Peru, Guatemala, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Afghanistan, and four thematic studies on macro-economic policies, privatisation, PRSP's, and employment generation.
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Affirmative Action In Plural Societies - International Experiences

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 Global contributors discuss the theoretical controversies concerning the merits and demerits of affirmative action, and explain why affirmative action is needed in multi-ethnic countries. They analyse actual experience with affirmative action policies their origin, nature and consequences in nine countries.
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The Developmental Challenges Of Mining And Oil - Lessons From Africa And Latin America

by J. Orihuela, M. Paredes, Rosemary Thorp, S. Battistelli e Y. Guichaoua

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 The authors explain why the discovery and development of natural resources is commonly associated with unstable and unequal development, and frequently with violence. They demonstrate the need for policies and institutions by reflecting on both successes and failures in case studies on Botswana, Nigeria and Niger as well as Bolivia, Chile and Peru.
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Communicating Across Cultures Student'S Book With Audio Cd

by Bob Dignen

38,63€ + 10% CARD

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 Communicating Across Cultures is an innovative short course for learners of business English who want to function effectively in an international environment by developing their intercultural skills in English.
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Horizontal Inequalities And Conflict - Understanding Group Violence In Multiethnic Societies

121,66€ + 10% CARD

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 Drawing on econometric evidence and in-depth studies of West Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia, this book explores how horizontal inequalities - ethnic, religious or racial - are a source of violent conflict and how political, economic and cultural status inequalities have contributed. Policies to reverse inequality would reduce these risks.
ENGLISH

Ethnicity And The Persistence Of Inequality - The Case Of Peru

by M. Paredes e R. Thorp

60,82€

free shipping

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 Understanding why inequality is so great and has persevered for centuries in a number of Latin American countries requires tools that go beyond economics. Investigating the case of Peru, this book explores how inequality is embedded in institutions that constitute the interface between the economy, the polity and geography of the country.
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Managing In A Political World - The Life Cycle Of Local Authority Chief Executives

by Steve Leach

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 Steve Leach identifies the key challenges facing chief executives in British local government in operating in an environment where party politics is a dominant force. It discusses the basis on which chief executives apply for posts and manage the interview process, and the importance of the 'honeymoon period' - the first 6-9 months.
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Mipes Iceland Int Fin Crisis - Boom, Bust And Recovery

by Bergmann E

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 Eirikur Bergmann explains the exceptional case of Iceland's fantastical boom, bust and rapid recovery after the Crash of 2008 and explores the lessons for the wider EU crisis and for over-reaching economies that over-rely on financial markets.
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St James'S Place Tax Guide

by E. Barry Lipkin e Walter Sinclair

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 The 42nd annual edition of the leading guide to taxation in Britain. This practical and user-friendly guide is a bestseller with students, professionals, accountants and private individuals, explaining in simple terms how the UK tax system works and how best to minimise tax liabilities.
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Skeletons In The Closet, Skeletons In The Ground - Repression, Victimization & Humiliation In A Small Andalusian Town -- The Human Consequences Of The Spanish Civil War

by Richard Barker

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 Examines the human consequences (individual, social, cultural, and economic) of civil war and political repression in Castilleja del Campo, a town in southern Spain with barely more than 600 inhabitants. This title presents the events from the proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic in April 1931 onward from multiple points of view.
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Critical Dictionary Of Mexican Literature (1955-2010) - 1955-2010

by Christopher Dominguez Michael

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 "Originally published in Spanish as Diccionario critico de la literatura Mexicana, 1955-2005 by Fondo de Cultura Economica, 2007."
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Understanding Collective Political Violence

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 Understanding Collective Political Violence offers a unique view on contemporary processes of violent political mobilization across continents: Africa, Latin America, South East Asia and the Middle East. It pays particular attention to unconventional combatants such as women or children and details the drivers of their violent engagement.

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