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ISSN: 12389544 Year: 1990 Publisher: Helsinki, Finland : World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University,


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Year: 2004 Publisher: Helsinki, Finland : World Institute for Development Economics Research, United Nations University,


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Gender and national identity : women and politics in muslim societies
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ISBN: 1856492451 185649246X Year: 1994 Publisher: London : Zed Books,

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This lucid and accessible collection explores gender and national identity within political movements in the Middle East, the Maghreb and South Asia. It reveals how nationalism, revolution and Islamization are gendered processes, and argues that in periods of political change, women are central to efforts to construct a national identity. The book focuses on predominantly Muslim movements, and includes Algerian women's experience in the national liberation movementthe struggle to construct a Bengali national identity and the creation of Bangladeshevents leading to revolution and Islamization in Iranrevolution and civil war in Afghanistanand the Palestinian intifada.


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Manufacturing transformation : comparative studies of industrial development in Africa and emerging Asia
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ISBN: 0198776985 0191822892 9780191082856 0191082856 9780191822896 Year: 2016 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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This volume presents results of comparative country-based research that sought to answer a seemingly simple but puzzling question: why is there so little industry in Africa? It brings together detailed country case studies of industrial policies and industrialisation outcomes in eleven countries, conducted by teams of national researchers in partnership with international experts on industrial development - providing analysis of the contemporary industrialisation experience in low-income Africa.

New sources of development finance
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ISBN: 0199278563 0199278555 0191601594 1282007335 0191535273 9786612007330 9780191535277 Year: 2005 Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,

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"This book sets out a framework for the economic analysis of different funding sources. It examines a series of new and controversial proposals, including global taxes such as a carbon tax, a global lottery, pre-commitment of aid, increased private donations, and increased remittances by emigrants"--Provided by publisher.


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Practice of Industrial Policy: Government—Business Coordination in Africa and East Asia
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ISBN: 0192517287 0191838608 0192517279 0198796951 9780198796954 9780192517272 9780192517289 9780191838606 Year: 2017 Publisher: Oxford University Press

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This work examines how African policy makers might develop better coordination between the public and private sectors to identify the constraints to faster structural transformation, and to design, implement, and monitor policies to remove them.


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Inequality, growth, and poverty in an era of liberalization and globalization
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ISBN: 0199284105 1281989975 9786611989972 0191533882 Year: 2004 Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,

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Within-country income inequality has risen since the early 1980s in most of the OECD, all transitional, and many developing countries. More recently, inequality has risen also in India and nations affected by the Asian crisis. Altogether, over the last twenty years, inequality worsened in 70 per cent of the 73 countries analysed in this volume, with the Gini index rising by over five points in half of them. In several cases, the Gini index follows a U-shaped pattern, with theturn-around point located between the late 1970s and early 1990s. Where the shift towards liberalization and globalizati


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Personal wealth from a global perspective
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ISBN: 9786611978808 0199548897 0191563501 1281978809 Year: 2008 Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,

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This volume looks beyond the distribution of income by examining the assets, debts, and net worth of individuals and households to create a global picture of wealth, its distribution and concentration.

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