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This enlarged and expanded edition is designed to be a valuable resource for librarians and users of information sources, clarifying the bewidering number of new acronyms that appear every year in the information science field. Nearly 30,000 acronyms in 35 languages are listed. As libraries are to a large extent interdisciplinary, the dictionary covers language forms used in computers, publishing, printing, archive management, journalism and reprography, as well as in the library and information science fields Acronyms reproduced here represent institutions, library and information systems, pr.
This book synthesizes findings regarding the political drivers of institutional change in extractive industry governance. It analyses resource governance from the late nineteenth century to the present in Bolivia, Ghana, Peru, and Zambia, focusing on the ways in which resource governance and national political settlements interact.
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By the end of 1985, Latin Americans owed their foreign creditors $368 billion. That was nearly $1,000 for every man, woman, and child between the Rio Grande and Tierra del Fuego. The debt represented more than half of the region's gross domestic product, and interest payments alone consumed 36 percent of export revenues. If profits are added to interest, and the total compared to new capital inflows, the drama of the situation becomes clear: a real resource transfer from Latin American was under way. More than three-fourths of Latin America's debt was owed to several hundred commercial banks with headquarters in North America, Europe, and Japan. Banker to the Third World examines why the loa...
El libro pone en discusión diferentes aproximaciones y desarrollos teóricos y metodológicos en torno a la historiografía y la planificación urbana en América Latina. A lo largo de los nueve capítulos se entretejen las tendencias en la investigación en este campo: algunos autores plantean la importancia de la historia urbana como recurso para la prospectiva, en tanto que otros abordan la planificación y el urbanismo como objeto de estudio historiográfico. Además, la publicación aporta elementos de reflexión sobre los debates recientes en la teoría y práctica del planeamiento urbano.