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Au devant de la scène et à l’intersection de questions sociales multiples, le travail de rue, désigné en Suisse romande sous l’appellation « travail social hors murs » (TSHM), se caractérise essentiellement par l’action d’« aller vers » dans la rue et les milieux de vie des populations....

The electricity sector is vulnerable to a broad range of risks that can threaten development effectiveness. Risks can spring from the magnitude of the sector's capital investments, opportunities for discretionary decision making and rent seeking by stakeholders, weak policy and regulatory frameworks,...

An effective system for complaint handling is a key element of a good development project. This reader presents the experiences and lessons learned in handling complaints under the Asian Development Bank-assisted Earthquake and Tsunami Emergency Support Project in Indonesia, and similar initiatives...

Nel caldo sud Italia, accade che il proprietario di un bar spieghi al giovane neo sindaco come preparare il miglior caffè al mondo e come amministrare la città. ---- In the hot south of Italy, the owner of a bar explains to the young new mayor how to prepare the best coffee in the world and how to administer the city.

¿Es el agua una necesidad humana, un bien económico o un derecho humano? ¿Debe la gestión del agua regularse por las reglas del mercado? ¿Puede el mercado asegurar racionalidad, equidad y justicia en la gestión del agua? Estas y otras interrogantes tienen respuesta en las reflexiones publicadas en este libro.

Existe un rezago de la condición femenina que plantea una necesidad urgente para resolver la violencia contra las mujeres, la desigualdad social y la trata y explotación sexual y económica. Este libro plantea una propuesta de construcción de liderazgos femeninos y llevar a más mujeres al poder.

Political party is an organized group of people who have common policies about the government and act together as a political unit to control the government with the aim of carrying out their policies. It is in this lucid manner that this book will teach you political parties in Nigeria. It...

Military government is a system of governing in which the armed forces capture and control the government by force. ‘In January 1966, a group of young Igbo army officers shot down some of their brother officers and seized control of the army. They killed the Prime Minister, Abubakar Tafawa...

Local government is a unit of governing created by law to perform local functions at the grass-root level. The local governments constitute the strength of liberal States. It then becomes obvious that a State cannot have the spirit of liberty without first of all possessing the spirit...

From the 1976 Republican National Convention in Kansas City to the 1995 O.J. Simpson trial of the century in Los Angeles, gonzo journalist H.B. Koplowitz explores the oxymoron of "journalism ethics" in this anthology of seven New Journalism stories. He also goes on an ill-fated media junket to Washington,...

Temas en torno a la privatización energética analizando las políticas económica, fiscal, sindical, petrolera, de medios y debate energético, de soberanía nacional y de derecho constitucional de México.

This book tells the story of the International Rescue Committee (IRC), the largest nonsectarian refugee relief agency in the world. Founded in the 1930s by socialist militants, the IRC attracted the support of renowned progressives such as Eleanor Roosevelt, Norman Thomas, and Reinhold Niebuhr. But...

El libro que el lector tiene en sus manos es una invitación para reflexionar sobre los conceptos de análisis y evaluación de políticas públicas, así como su relación y posibles tensiones. Esta propuesta responde a la necesidad de explorar los alcances y límites de una relación que todavía...

Based on Party and state documents, Chinese newspaper reports and surveys, the Chinese and Western scholarly literature and the author's own fieldwork, this important study examines the private sector as a case study of the mechanics of reform in China, emphasizing the relationships among local officials,...