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Good for Nothing
The year is 1959, and 15-year-old Nipishish is kicked out of residential school, told by the principal that he's a good-for-nothing who, like all Indians, can look forward to a life of drunkenness, prison, and despair. Nipishish returns to the Métis reserve in northern Quebec where he was born, but feels even more isolated. His parents are dead and he is faced with the hopelessness of life on the reserve. He hopes for a fresh start when reserve officials give him the chance to live with a white family in an unfamiliar town. Despite a few bright spots, the adjustment and indignities in the city are too much to bear. Just when it seems that he will fulfill the predictions of the residential school principal, a girl named Pinamen and friends help bring him back to the reserve. Adolescents will find inspiration in Nipishish's courage to reclaim his identity and claim his rightful place on the reserve. The book also provides great insight into the roots of many ongoing native issues.
Nishka
Années 1960. Ojipik dit au revoir à son père Shigobi, à sa grand-mère Koukoumis, au Lac Cabonga, aux forêts, à sa chienne la Louve. Comme tant d’autres Anishnabés avant lui, l’adolescent part chez les Blancs apprendre à lire et à écrire, apprendre à «marcher sa vie». À la tristesse du départ se mêle le désir de revoir Sylvie, la fille de Marie qui l’accueillera au village. La nouvelle vie d’Ojipik est aux couleurs de la ferme de Marie et de l’oncle Oscar; des parties de billes et de ballon chasseur dans la cour de l’école; des conversations avec Monsieur Cécire, ancien combattant, propriétaire du magasin général et barbier à ses heures; des jeux avec Jean,...
Building Subnational Debt Markets in Developing and Transition Economies
Because of the trend toward decentralization in more than 70 countries where the World Bank is active, subnational entities (states regions, provinces, counties and municipalities, and the local utility companies owned by them) are now responsible for delivering services and investing in infrastructure. And infrastructure investments are growing rapidly to meet increasing urban demand. How should the World Bank Group help?
Les Papinachois et le rêve
Napéo a fait un rêve étrange. Son grand-papa lui explique qu'il sera bientôt un chasseur. Pour fêter cet événement, les Papinachois organisent une grande fête. Napéo reçoit des cadeaux et il danse avec les siens.
Mobilizing private finance for local infrastructure in Europe and Central Asia
Annotation "In recent years, the countries of the Europe and Central Asia (ECA) Region have experienced a marked decline in the interest of international private operators and investors in municipal infrastructure projects, in line with the trend experienced in other emerging markets. The objective of this paper is to explore the possible innovative elements of a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) in an effort to rekindle the sagging private finance interest in municipal infrastructure in the ECA Region. The contemplated PPP model would involve government, municipalities, Local Infrastructure Investment Trusts, private equity funds and/or turnaround advisors, and International Financial Institutions."
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Hush! Hush!
Un récit de vie inspiré de l'enfance de l'auteur, où se mêlent fiction et réalité. C'est l'histoire d'Ojipik, un jeune Amérindien de 14 ans dans les années 1950, nous racontant la vie traditionnelle des trappeurs. Son rêve est de vivre de chasse et de pêche comme son oncle et les autres familles algonquines. Il a une chienne qu'il a appelée La Louve. Une foule d'événements viennent bouleverser l'existence d'Ojipik et modifier son avenir. Le point culminant est le carnage délibéré et organisé des chiens de traîneau par le gouvernement fédéral. Cette tuerie, que l'on peut comparer à la disparition des bisons dans l'Ouest canadien, avait pour but de sédentariser les trappeurs en les privant de leur seul moyen de se rendre au cœur de la forêt où les compagnies forestières effectuaient des coupes à blanc. Heureusement, ce moment est aussi celui où Joseph Armand Bombardier popularise la motoneige.
Decentralized Creditor-led Corporate Restructuring
Countries that have experienced banking crises have adopted one of two distinct approaches toward the resolution of nonperforming assets--a centralized or a decentralized solution. A centralized approach entails setting up a government agency--an asset management company--with the full responsibility for acquiring, restructuring, and selling of the assets. A decentralized approach relies on banks and other creditors to manage and resolve nonperforming assets. Dado and Klingebiel study banking crises where governments adopted a decentralized, creditor-led workout strategy following systemic crises. They use a case study approach and analyze seven banking crises in which governments mainly rel...
