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Across China, university staff, researchers, students, and farmers are joining forces to bring to the fore action and field-based learning as a way to promote rural development studies. Learning from the Field: Innovating China’s Higher Education System presents first-hand experience and lessons from an innovative, participatory curriculum development initiative in China. It includes the content of two novel courses, ‘Community Based Natural Resource Management’ and ‘Participatory Rural Development’. The first versions of these courses were delivered at the College of Humanities and Development of the China Agricultural University in Beijing in the spring of 2005 and at the Jilin Agricultural University in Changchun in the spring of 2006.

Education, Higher --- Universities and colleges --- Rural development --- Natural resources --- Curriculum change --- Educational change --- Study and teaching --- Co-management --- Curriculum reform --- Instructional change --- Reform, Curriculum --- Curriculum planning --- Education --- National resources --- Resources, Natural --- Resource-based communities --- Resource curse --- Community development, Rural --- Development, Rural --- Integrated rural development --- Regional development --- Rehabilitation, Rural --- Rural community development --- Rural economic development --- Agriculture and state --- Community development --- Economic development --- Regional planning --- Curricula --- Economic aspects --- Citizen participation --- Social aspects

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This volume represents a uniquely thorough investigation of trade and financial policy as it impacts upon Third World development. A broad range of international case studies (including Indonesia, Uruguay and Tunisia) offer a wealth of empirical material and statistical information. Thematic discussion chapters build on these case studies, offering important analysis of topics such as trade specialization and industrial change.

Finance --- Competition --- Competition (Economics) --- Competitiveness (Economics) --- Economic competition --- Commerce --- Conglomerate corporations --- Covenants not to compete --- Industrial concentration --- Monopolies --- Open price system --- Supply and demand --- Trusts, Industrial --- Funding --- Funds --- Economics --- Currency question --- Economic aspects --- Developing countries --- Emerging nations --- Fourth World --- Global South --- LDC's --- Least developed countries --- Less developed countries --- Newly industrialized countries --- Newly industrializing countries --- NICs (Newly industrialized countries) --- Third World --- Underdeveloped areas --- Underdeveloped countries --- Commerce.

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Synthesizes results from a 7-year programme of applied research on community-based approaches to natural resource management in Asia. This book provides models of 'good practice' in participatory, community-based resource management, and demonstrates how it contributes to broader learning in the field of natural resource management and policy.

Community organization --- National wealth --- Third World: economic development problems --- Asia --- Natural resources --- Rural poor --- Economic development --- Management --- Citizen participation --- Government policy --- Environmental aspects --- Development, Economic --- Economic growth --- Growth, Economic --- Economic policy --- Economics --- Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) --- Development economics --- Resource curse --- Rural poverty --- Poor --- National resources --- Resources, Natural --- Resource-based communities --- Economic conditions --- Economic aspects --- Environmental policy

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This book examines the problem of inadequate access to information and communication technology (ICT) and the need to develop appropriate pro-poor ICT policies within the Latin American and Caribbean context. The authors show how market reforms have failed to ensure that the benefits of the Information Society have spread across the many social and economic divides that characterize the region. The authors explain and support the formulation of a new perspective on ICT access and develop an analytical framework with which to assess the critical variables involved in effective ICT adoption in developing regions. The research supports policy reform that builds upon the achievements of market liberalization efforts in the region but which must also address the realities of 'digital poverty' - a concept that grasps the multiple dimensions of inadequate levels of access to ICT services by people and organizations, as well as the barriers to their productive use. This is the first publication of the Regional Dialogue on the Information Society (DIRSI), a regional network of leading researchers concerned with disseminating knowledge that supports the participation of marginalized communities using ICTs in Latin America and the Caribbean. The book will be of interest to anyone interested in ICTs and international development policy and practice.

Computer. Automation --- Latin America --- Information technology --- Digital divide --- Divide, Digital --- GDD (Global digital divide) --- Global digital divide --- Information society --- IT (Information technology) --- Technology --- Telematics --- Information superhighway --- Knowledge management --- Economic aspects --- Social aspects

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Industrial economics --- Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- South Africa --- Industries --- Environmental protection --- Environmental aspects --- Industrial production --- Industry --- Economics --- Industries, Primitive