• Introduction
• 1. Continuities and Changes
• 2. A Sovereign and Modern State
• 3. A Powerful State: Politics, Ideology, the Military and the Bureaucracy
• 4. A Powerful State: The economy
• 5. A Capitalist State, Friendly to Employers But Much Less So to Workers
• 6. A Developmental State
• 7. A State Promoting Knowledge Transfer and Education
• 8. Some Comments on What (Supposedly?) Went Wrong
• 9. A brief summary Appendices Notes Bibliography Index.
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The most significant debate in global economic history over the past twenty years has dealt with the Great Divergence, the economic gap between different parts of the world. Thus far, this debate has focused on China, India and north-western Europe, particularly Great Britain. This book shifts the focus to ask how Japan became the only non-western county that managed, at least partially, to modernize its economy and start to industrialize in the 19th century. Using a range of empirical data, Peer Vries analyses the role of the state in Japan's economic growth from the Meiji Restoration to World War II, and asks whether Japan's economic success can be attributed to the rise of state power. Asserting that the state's involvement was fundamental in Japan's economic 'catching up', he demonstrates how this was built on legacies from the previous Tokugawa period. In this book, Vries deepens our understanding of the Great Divergence in global history by re-examining how Japan developed and modernized against the odds.
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• Deepen BRICS partnership for a brighter future / Wang Linggui, Zhao Jianglin
• Opportunities and challenges for BRICS countries : the international environment and policy outlook for BRICS countries / Roberto Abdenur
• BRICS and the changing international system / Alexander Lukin
• The role and place of BRICS in the context of globalization / Boris Guseletov
• Are the BRICS nations ready for a new era? / Zhu Caihua
• Difficulties and path of BRICS countries' structural reform / Huang Maoxing
• Dynamics from BRICS countries : a perspective on BRICS development strategies : prospects and issues / Vinod Anand
• Brazil's participation in BRICS cooperation mechanism : strategic consideration and analysis of result / Zhou Zhiwei
• Brazil in the BRICS after Davos
• 2017: coordinating development strategies in a new epoch / Ana Flavia Barros Platiau, Jorge Gomes do Cravo Barros
• Balance of power and international trade : the perception of the Brazilian public opinion about China and BRICS / Amancio Jorge de Oliveira, Janina Onuki
• Coordinating BRICS strategies : a Russian point of view and suggestions / Georgy Toloraya
• South Africa beware the BRIC bearing BRICS, as the soothsayer hath warned Caesar "Beware the Ides of March!" / Matlotleng Matlou
• Seeking Sino-India development coordination under the Belt and Road Initiative / Lin Minwang
• The development and future of BRICS countries : BRICS towards multi-polarity and global governance / Bali Ram Deepak
• The BRICKS : an attractive and compelling alternative to global governance / Tony Karbo
• Policy suggestions on the co-ordination of BRICS strategies / Renato Galvao Flores
• Soft power, intercultural communication and intercivilizational dialogue as main strategies of development of international cooperation (Guseynova Innara Alyevna)
• A new type of South-South cooperation and BRICS new development bank / Zhu Jiejin
• The coordination of BRICS development strategies : way to common prosperity
• Sum of 2017 BRICS think-tanks forum and international conference / Wei Siying.

"BRICS countries, including Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, have successfully cooperated among themselves for more than a decade. The countries have served as an important platform for emerging markets and developing countries. The BRICS countries have successfully cooperated in political, economic, cultural and security affairs. The cooperation among BRICs countries has become an important force in stimulating world economic growth, perfecting global governance and improving welfare of people living in BRICs countries. Contributed by more than 20 experts from top think tanks of BRICS member countries, it summarizes the achievements of BRICS cooperation and studies challenges faced by BRICS countries, aiming to find solution for better collaboration of the BRICS member countries and achieve shared prosperity for all"-- Provided by publisher.

• L'État stratège (1999-2015)
• Des orientations stratégiques déterminantes pour le développement des territoires
• La régionalisation : un projet royal dès 1999
• Développement économique, développement global et régionalisation
• Développement économique et régionalisation
• Développement global et régionalisation
• Un nouveau modèle de développement et un nouveau statut régional à partir de 2015, pour les provinces du Sud
• L'organisation administrative des régions du Sud - 1995-2015
• Une organisation administrative des territoires plus décentralisés depuis 2015
• Un taux d'urbanisation élevé en 2019
• Les énergies renouvelables : un chantier de règne
• Une énergie de niche : la biomasse
• L'hydroélectricité : un nouvel axe de développement via les STEP et les microcentrales
• Renforcement du parc hydroélectrique
• Introduction des STEP dans la régulation de l'exploitation de la Grande Hydraulique
• Le recours aux microcentrales hydroélectriques
• L'éolien un potentiel unique au Maroc, avec des sites exceptionnels au Nord et au Sud du Royaume
• Des gisements considérables sur l'ensemble des territoires
• Cinquante-huit pour cent de la puissance installée éolienne, dans les provinces du Sud.
• L'énergie solaire, un autre atout énergétique du Royaume et des provinces du Sud
• Un environnement international particulièrement porteur
• Le Plan Solaire Marocain
• Des pôles portuaires en relais des objectifs stratégiques
• La stratégie portuaire "vision 2030"
• Le constat : une offre portuaire insuffisante et obsolète en 2010
• La réponse : six pôles portuaires à développer au niveau national
• Le pôle portuaire du Sud
• Trois ports principaux, pôle de développement maritime naturel des trois régions
• Deux ports-relais
• Les villages de pêche : des micro-pôles de développement propres aux provinces
• Des politiques nationales sectorielles, fédératrices, prenant en compte les spécificités des provinces
• Le plan Maroc vert (2008 - 2020)
• Assurer la sécurité alimentaire du Royaume et valoriser la production agricole du pays
• Atouts et faiblesses de l'agriculture marocaine à la veille du Plan Maroc Vert
• Des objectifs ambitieux, horizon 2020
• Les moyens mis en oeuvre pour les atteindre
• Une activité agricole surprenante et performante, dans les provinces du Sud
• Une agriculture tournée vers l'élevage et la production laitière dans la région de Laâyoune-Boujdour-Sakia El Hamra
• Une agriculture autosuffisante en primeurs, fruits et légumes dans la région de Guelmim-Smara
• Une agriculture de niches et de graras dans la région d'Oued Ed-Dahab-Lagouira
• Les retombées du Plan Maroc Vert dans les provinces du Sud
• Des réalisations qui témoignent dans la région "Laâyoune-Boujdour-Sakia El Hamra"
• L'agriculture solidaire, principale bénéficiaire du PAR de la région de Guelmim-Smara
• Le plan halieutis (2009 - 2020)
• Valoriser les prises, tout en protégeant la ressource
• Forces et faiblesse du secteur halieutique marocain en 2007
• Le Plan Halieutis : Une vision sectorielle horizontale, avec des objectifs et des projets stratégiques
• La pêche : Activité principale et motrice des régions du Sud à la veille du Plan Halieutis

• Pêche hauturière, pêche côtière, pêche artisanale : un choix nécessaire et difficile
• Les villages de pêche, acteurs incontournables de la restructuration de la pêche artisanale
• Sept villages de pêche, programmés dès 2004
• Un Plan Halieutis très profitable aux provinces du Sud
• Une production qui continue à se valoriser
• *11 des 22 points de débarque et/ou villages de pêche, à créer ou à réhabiliter dans le cadre du Plan Halieutis, sont dans les provinces du Sud
• Succès des centres de formation dédiés aux métiers de la mer
• Des ressources halieutiques mieux protégées
• Vision 2020, ou comment exploiter le potentiel touristique des provinces du sud
• Vision 2020 : Ou comment concilier continuité et diversité
• Vision 2010 : Les grands chantiers transnationaux du tourisme
• Vision 2020 : Huit nouveaux territoires touristiques adossés à une offre regroupée en six programmes
• Vision 2020 : Une véritable feuille de route à destination des responsables touristiques des provinces
• À partir de leur patrimoine naturel
• À partir de ses écosystèmes et de ses oasis
• L'État aménagement (2015-2019)
• Une volonté royale : un nouveau modèle de développement et un nouveau statut régional
• Un nouveau découpage régional accompagné de nouveaux pouvoirs
• Un nouveau découpage régional : 3 régions, 10 provinces et 83 communes
• La région de Dakhla-Oued Ed-Dahab : deux provinces et treize communes
• La région de Laâyoune Sakia El Hanra : quatre provinces et vingt communes
• La région de Guelmim Oued Noun : quatre provinces et cinquante communes
• De nouveaux pouvoirs et de nouveaux moyens
• Nouveaux pouvoirs et nouveaux moyens inscrits dans la Constitution de 2011
• La Régionalisation avancée : une primauté des régions du Sud
• Un nouveau modèle de développement pour toutes les provinces du sud / nmdps / global et inclusif
• Un bilan globalement positif, avec des points très faibles
• Un bilan globalement positif : les réalisations qui en témoignent
• Des points faibles, dans la logique du système retenu, Régionalisation centralisée
• Le Nouveau modèle de développement des provinces du Sud
• Le NMDPS, dernier volet de leur insertion définitive au sein du Royaume
• Un engagement royal financier en amont de 77 MM de dhs pour 6 ans
• Des investissements considérables, 81 mm de dhs, en aval
• Quatre grandes priorités
• Pres de 16 mm de dhs consacres aux infrastructures
• Plus de 8,5 MM de dhs dans la construction d'une voie express Tiznit-Dakhla
• Près de 10 MM de dhs dans la construction d'un nouveau port : Dakhla Atlantique
• Deux MM de dhs dans la connexion au réseau électrique national, à partir de Dakhla
• Le technopôle Foum El Oued, un projet phare de 2 MM de dhs
• Données générales du Projet
• Une technologie du savoir et de l'excellence inspirée de l'environnement saharien local
• Une cité zéro carbone, zéro déchet à la pointe de la technologie
• Plus de sept milliards de dhs consacrés aux énergies éoliennes
• Plus de trois milliards de dhs consacrés au domaine social et environnemental
• Un Centre régional Hospitalier Universitaire à Laâyoune de plus de 1,2 MM de dhs
• Mise en place des nouvelles unités de dessalement de l'eau de mer (10,9 MM de dhs)

• Des travaux d'assainissement à hauteur de MM de dhs
• Des centaines de projets en relais
• Deux cent soixante-dix-neuf projets dans la Région de Laâyoune - Sakia el Hamra. Analyse de leur répartition entre provinces et communes
• Les cinq communes de la province de Laâyoune concernées par 97 projets
• Les six communes de la province de Smara bénéficient directement de 50 projets
• Les quatre communes de la province de Boujdour directement concernés par 32 projets
• Les cinq communes de la province de Tarfaya concernées par 23 projets
• Vingt-sept secteurs d'activité répertoriés
• Des taux de démarrage des travaux à plus de 65 % et des taux d'engagement financier à plus de 50 % en 2018
• Des taux de démarrage des travaux allant de 36 % à 81 % selon les provinces avec des taux d'engagement financier allant de 31 % à 76 % en 2018
• Des taux de démarrage des travaux allant de 0 % à 100 % selon les secteurs, avec des taux d'engagement financier allant de 0 % à 100% en 2018
• Une dynamique inclusive portée par des pôles de compétitivité locaux, en amont
• Un pôle de compétitivité pèche à Dakhla
• Un environnement halieutique exceptionnel et une province qui contribua en 2017 à 50 % en volume de la production halieutique nationale
• Un environnement halieutique exceptionnel
• Dakhla : une activité pêche qui a créé plus de 20 000 emplois directs en 2017
• Des infrastructures que nombreux ports du Royaume peuvent envier
• Un pôle de compétitivité porté par le NMDPS
• Dakhla Atlantique et l'élargissement de la zone de pêche
• Dakhla-Atlantique et la voie-express routière Tiznit Dakhla
• Le raccordement au réseau électrique national : un bon point pour des activités fortement consommatrices d'énergie
• Un pôle de compétitivité industrielle à Boucraa
• Un pôle de compétitivité à partir de l'exploitation des phosphates de Phosboucraa et de leur valorisation
• Des capacités industrielles nouvelles : 0,5 M de tonne d'acide phosphorique et 1 M de tonne d'engrais produits chaque année.
• Une nouvelle chaîne de valeur intégrée
• Un projet faisant de la durabilité une priorité
• Valoriser le capital humain : une nécessité et une priorité à Phosboucraa
• Préserver l'environnement : un prérequis de la durabilité
• Augmentation de la durée de vie des réserves de roches phosphatières
• Une dimension sociétale et communautaire qui va au-delà de la stricte exploitation des phosphates et de leur valorisation
• Des investissements sociaux conséquents dans le cadre de son engagement communautaire
• Une dimension sociétale, portée par la Fondation Phosboucraa en faveur des communautés des trois régions
• Un pôle de compétitivité - agricole
• Deux projets structurants en voie d'achèvement et soutien à l'agriculture solidaire dans la Région de Laâyoune Sakia El Hamra
• Réalisation d'un projet d'aménagement hydro-agricole irrigant 1 000 hectares dans la province de Boujdour
• Mise à niveau du Centre de Qualification agricole de Laâyoune
• Mise à disposition d'une enveloppe budgétaire pour le soutien et le développement de l'agriculture solidaire, de 1,1 MM de dhs
• Un nouveau périmètre irrigué de 5 000 hectares dans la région de Dakhla-Oued Eddahab

• Le pôle de compétitivité touristique regroupant des micropoles communaux : analyse des premiers projets portés par la région de Laâyoune
• 87 projets pour un montant de 2 MM de dhs
• Des projets qui concernent les quatre provinces de la région
• Une enveloppe de 7,5 M de dhs pour la ville de Laâyoune
• Une enveloppe de 31,65 M de dhs pour la province de Smara
• Deux projets communaux dans la province de Tarfaya, à hauteur de 9,75 M dhs
• 9,75 M dhs affectés à la province de Boujdour.

"Entre 1999 et 2019, les provinces du Sud vont tout d'abord connaître une période au cours de laquelle se mettent en place les prérequis structurels de leur développement, ce qui va les conduire ensuite à s'engager sur la voie de leur développement inclusif. Les populations locales vont ainsi être amenées à valoriser leurs propres richesses. Que de chemin parcouru, dans un environnement naturel parfois complexe et dans un contexte international souvent difficile ! Vision et volonté royales ont été déterminantes dans le choix des stratégies et des moyens mis à disposition. Habituellement, c'est le politique qui prime sur l'économique, lui imposant sa loi. Avec le discours de Laâyoune en novembre 2015, Mohammed VI a pris les politiques de court, donnant priorité à l'économie et au développement inclusif des provinces du Sud. Ce livre a pour objet de rappeler les enjeux de cette politique de développement, les stratégies privilégiées et les moyens mis à disposition pour y parvenir."--Page 4 of cover.

"Over the course of a generation, algorithms have gone from mathematical abstractions to powerful mediators of daily life. Algorithms have made our lives more efficient, more entertaining, and, sometimes, better informed. At the same time, complex algorithms are increasingly violating the basic rights of individual citizens. Allegedly anonymized datasets routinely leak our most sensitive personal information; statistical models for everything from mortgages to college admissions reflect racial and gender bias. Meanwhile, users manipulate algorithms to "game" search engines, spam filters, online reviewing services, and navigation apps. Understanding and improving the science behind the algorithms that run our lives is rapidly becoming one of the most pressing issues of this century. Traditional fixes, such as laws, regulations and watchdog groups, have proven woefully inadequate. Reporting from the cutting edge of scientific research, The Ethical Algorithm offers a new approach: a set of principled solutions based on the emerging and exciting science of socially aware algorithm design. Michael Kearns and Aaron Roth explain how we can better embed human principles into machine code - without halting the advance of data-driven scientific exploration. Weaving together innovative research with stories of citizens, scientists, and activists on the front lines, The Ethical Algorithm offers a compelling vision for a future, one in which we can better protect humans from the unintended impacts of algorithms while continuing to inspire wondrous advances in technology"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction: the difference that doesn't make a difference
• The promise machine: between "techno-failure" and market failure
• Creative destruction and the new socialities
• Failure, forgotten: on buffering, latency, and the monetization of waiting
• Too big to fail: banks, derivatives, and market collapse
• Conclusion: failure, remembered.

"Failure explores the deeply troubling paradox by which the more technological and financial systems fail us, the more dependent on them we become. The authors propose a theory of habitual failure by exploring crisis and divides - yet failure is not a self-evident quality. It requires a new understanding of why it is so quickly forgotten"-- Provided by publisher.

• The oceanic reach
• Literature and culture
• Of roots and routes
• The power games.

• Acknowledgements
• List of Abbreviations
• Introduction
• 1. Theorizing Ownership
• 2. La Sante Avant Tout (Health Before Everything)
• 3. Beggars Can't Be Choosers
• 4. Ownership in Comparison
• Conclusion: Go Back and Get It.
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Rethinking Ownership of Development in Africa demonstrates how instead of empowering the communities they work with, the jargon of development ownership often actually serves to perpetuate the centrality of multilateral organizations and international donors in African development, awarding a fairly minimal role to local partners. In the context of today's development scheme for Africa, ownership is often considered to be the panacea for all of the aid-dependent continent's development woes. Reinforced through the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)'s Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness and the Accra Agenda for Action, ownership is now the preeminent procedure for achieving aid effectiveness and a range of development outcomes. Throughout this book, the author illustrates how the ownership paradigm dictates who can produce development knowledge and who is responsible for carrying it out, with a specific focus on the health sectors in Burkina Faso and Kenya. Under this paradigm, despite the ownership narrative, national stakeholders in both countries are not producers of development knowledge; they are merely responsible for its implementation. This book challenges the preponderance of conventional international development policies that call for more ownership from African stakeholders without questioning the implications of donor demands and historical legacies of colonialism in Africa. Ultimately, the findings from this book make an important contribution to critical development debates that question international development as an enterprise capable of empowering developing nations. This lively and engaging book challenges readers to think differently about the ownership, and as such will be of interest to researchers of development studies and African studies, as well as for development practitioners within Africa.
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• Overview
• Chapter 1: Defining structural transformation
• Chapter 2: Seeking transformation? Africa is not alone
• Chapter 3: Transformation through industrialization
• Chapter 4: Understanding other key enablers of Africa's structural transformation
• Chapter 5: Innovative development financing sources
• Chapter 6: Selected experiences: drilling into the country dimension
• Chapter 7: African circumstances and efforts into the future.
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Debates on African development continue to downplay the achievement of the continent: economic achievements are diminished and the perception of a conflict prone continent continues. Many of the policy prescriptions externally imposed on African countries have done little to transform the continent largely because they have been conceived and applied without context. Using literature from diverse origins, this book expands our knowledge about Africa and makes practical suggestions as to how successful development in a complex, yet dynamic continent can be achieved. Widening the policy dialogue and providing alternative thinking on the key elements and full extent of opportunities and challenges towards achieving the socio-economic transformation of Africa, the book moves the debate from the rhetoric to reality. As a considered reflection on the `Africa's transformation' narrative, it outlines the practical pathways necessary for Africa's sustainable development, providing policy makers and researchers with tested solutions. It will be of interest to all scholars, students and policy professionals working in African development, public policy, international political economy, economic policy and politics.
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• PART I. AN INTRODUCTION TO SUSTAINABILITY
• CHAPTER 1. THE PROBLEMS WE MUST SOLVE Introduction: A Solutions Based Approach Natural Resources and Global Environmental Issues The Human Condition Developing Sustainable Solutions
• CHAPTER 2. DEVELOPING SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS 2.1 From Environmentalism to Sustainability: An Historical Context 2.2 A Working Definition of Sustainability 2.3 Implementing and Assessing Sustainable Solutions 2.4 A Lexicon for Sustainable Problem Solving
• PART II: THE EARTH AS A RESOURCE: MOVING TOWARDS A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
• CHAPTER 3. THE AIR WE BREATHE 3.1. Air Pollution 3.2 Sustainable Solutions for Air Pollution 3.4 Assessing the Sustainability of Clean Air Action
• CHAPTER 4. WATER: USING OUR PLANET TO QUENCH OUR THIRST 4.1 Hydrology: The Storage and Movement of Water 4.2 Limited Access to a Vital Resource 4.3 Impacting Aquatic Ecosystems 4.4 Policies to Sustain Water 4.5 Innovative and Technical Solutions 4.6 Ecological Approaches for Sustaining Aquatic Resources 4.7 Assessing Sustainable Solutions to the Water Crisis 4.8 Recipes for Greater Success
• CHAPTER 5. FOOD & AGRICULTURE: USING OUR PLANETS TO SUSTAIN OURSELVES 5.1 A Brief History of Agriculture 5.2 Sustainable Solutions: Food & Agriculture 5.3 Assessing Food Systems Sustainability
• CHAPTER 6. FROM FOSSIL FUELS TO A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE 6.1 Fossil Fuels 6.2 A Sustainable Energy Future: Renewable Technologies 6.3 New Technologies to Manage and Distribute Energy 6.4 Transportation 6.5 Barriers to a Renewable Future 6.6 Overcoming Barriers to a Sustainable Energy Future 6.7 Assessing Our Sustainable Energy Future 6.8 The Transition Is Underway
• CHAPTER 7. FOREST AND MINERAL RESOURCES: MATERIALS TO MAKE STUFF 7.1 Forest Resources 7.2 Sustaining Our Forests 7.3 Can We Sustain Our Forest Resources? 7.4 Mineral Resources 7.5 Making Mineral Resources More Sustainable 7.6 Is Sustainable Mining Achievable? 7.7 Systems Thinking and Sustainable Resource Management
• CHAPTER 8. SOLVING OUR GARBAGE PROBLEM 8.1 The Garbage We Produce 8.2 Policy Solutions for Managing and Reducing Waste 8.3 Applied Solutions for the Global Garbage Problem 8.4 Garbage and the Linear Economy 8.5 A New Paradigm for Economic Growth and Development
• PART III: INTEGRATING SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS AT DIFFERENT LEVELS OF ORGANIZATION
• CHAPTER 9. THE POWER OF INDIVIDUALS 9.1 Individual Action 9.2 Individuals as Effective Agents of Change 9.3 Individual Action for Diverse Populations 9.4 Increasing the Power of Individuals
• CHAPTER 10. ORGANIZATIONS, INSTITUTIONS AND SUSTAINABILITY 10.1 Educational Institutions 10.2 Corporate and Business Institutions 10.3 The Role of Other Institutions 10.4 New Institutional Paradigms
• CHAPTER 11. SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES, CITIES, AND REGIONS 11.1 Community Sustainability 11.2 Smart Growth, New Urbanism, and Regional Sustainability 11.3 Barriers to Community and Regional Sustainability 11.4 Removing the Barriers to Community and Regional Sustainability
• CHAPTER 12. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY 12.1 Sustainable Development 12.2 Sustainable Development Initiatives 12.3 Barriers to Global Sustainability 12.4 Our Sustainable Future
• APPENDIX I: List of Abbreviations INDEX.
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There has been a recent proliferation in the number of undergraduate and graduate programs in sustainability-related areas1, but the number of text books that can serve these new curricula is extremely limited. The objective of the proposed book is to fill that void by offering a problem solving or solutions-based approach to teaching sustainability. This will be achieved by providing the necessary content to understand the concept of sustainability as it relates to a variety of natural resources, technologies, and social structures, and will then offer students the opportunity to move beyond the content and examine specific examples of ways that sustainability can be achieved and assessed in each of the thematic areas. The book will offer students opportunities to make interdisciplinary connections and see how things like individual and institutional behaviors, novel collaborations, innovation and entrepreneurship, new technologies, and policy decisions can be used to achieve sustainable solutions. The focus audience for this book will be undergraduates and entering graduate students from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds that that have had some exposure to environmental issues who are now ready access this content within an analytical and solutions-based context.
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• US Infrastructure: An Overview of Issues and Opportunities / Rosabeth Moss Kanter
• Part I: Structure, Technological Innovation and Sustainability
• State of US Infrastructure: Current and Future Perspective /
• Bjorn Birgisson and Robert L. Lytton
• Technological Innovation and Intelligent Transportation Systems for the US: Perspectives for the 21st Century / Stephen G. Ritchie, Craig Rindt, and Dean Deeter
• Information Technology and US Infrastructure: Perspectives for the 21st Century / Burcu Akinci and Varun Kasireddy
• Enhancing Sustainability of Transportation Infrastructure in the 21st Century: The Case for Using Increased Recycled Materials in Pavement Construction / Musharraf Zaman, Rouzbeh Ghabchi, and Zahid Hossain
• The Sustainability Myth: How a Changing Climate Alters the Paradigms of Infrastructure Design and Maintenance / Katharine Hayhoe
• Part II: Economics, Productivity, and Finance
• Microeconomic Perspectives on US Transportation Infrastructure: Challenges and Directions for the 21st Century / Ian Savage
• Critical Macroeconomic and Multisectoral Perspectives on US Infrastructure: Challenges and Directions for the 21st Century / Haider A. Khan
• Cross State Variation in the Characteristics, Effects and Financing of US Highways / Randall W. Eberts
• Infrastructure Productivity and the US Economy: Prospects for the 21st Century / Olga Murova and Aman Khan
• Financing US Infrastructure: Choices for the 21st Century / Martin Wachs
• Public-Private Partnership and the Future of US Infrastructure / Jonathan. L. Gifford
• Part III: Institutions, Security and Politics
• US Infrastructure Gap(s): Federal Policy and Local Public Institutions / Michael Bennon, Julie Kim, and Raymond Levitt
• Planning Robust 21st Century US Urban Infrastructure: Socially Driven Transitions from Pre-Industrial, Carbon Intensive and Carbon-Sensitive Infrastructure / Rae Zimmerman, Nancy B. Grimm, and Alice Brawley-Chesworth
• Energy Infrastructure Security: Challenges and Directions for the 21st Century / Annette Sobel, Brian Ancell and Richard Lanza
• Infrastructure Politics: Implications for a Cohesive National Transportation Policy in the 21st Century / Richardson Dilworth.

"Transportation infrastructure continues to crumble in the United States, and there appears to be little political will to do much about it. US Infrastucture is the first book to bring together a multi-dimensional perspective to explore the field holistically - the structure, economics, finance, planning, politics, and policy of our transportation and technology - to provide a clear and comprehensive understanding of the problems faced by policymakers and planners. Written by top academics in the field and aimed at policymakers, managers, and administrators in public and private organizations, as well as students, this book provides an in-depth analysis of the US infrastructure problem, its causes and consequences, and suggests timely, specific measures that may be taken at the state, local, and federal levels to improve and better secure our roads, transit, public buildings, economy, and technology"-- Provided by publisher.

• Preface Introduction Confidence
• 1: Laughing at the Raven
• 2: A Triumph of Diplomacy
• 3: 'Strong Cards to Play' Indecision
• 4: Hitler's Victory
• 5: To the Brink and Back
• 6: 'The First Real Chancellor Since Bismarck' Despair
• 7: Squaring the Circle
• 8: Help from Washington
• 9: Endgame
• 10: The Rise of Hitler Epilogue Sources References Notes Index.
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Germany's financial collapse in the summer of 1931 was one of the biggest economic catastrophes of modern history. It led to a global panic, brought down the international monetary system, and turned a worldwide recession into a prolonged depression. The German crisis also contributed decisively to the rise of Hitler. Soon after the crisis, the Nazi Party became the largest party of the country which paved the way for Hitler's eventual seizure of power in 1933. The reason for the financial collapse was Germany's large pile of foreign debt denominated in gold currency which condemned the government to cut spending, raise taxes, and lower wages in the middle of a worldwide recession. As the political resistance to this austerity policy grew, the German government began to question its debt obligations, prompting foreign investors to panic and sell their German assets. The resulting currency crisis led to the failure of the already weakened banking system and a partial sovereign default. Hitler managed to profit from the crisis, because he had been the most vocal critic of the reparation regime. As the financial system collapsed, his relentless attacks against foreign creditors and the alleged complicity of the German government resonated more than ever with the electorate. Sadly enough, Germany's creditors hesitated too long to take the wind out of Hitler's sails by offering debt relief. In 1931, Tobias Straumann reveals the story of the fatal crisis, demonstrating how a debt trap contributed to the rapid financial and political collapse of a European country, and to the rise of the Nazi Party.
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• Introduction: Consumer Capitalism and Addiction
• PART I: The Shifting Problem of Consumption
• 1. Luxurious Excess: The Emergence of Commodity Culture
• 2. Industrial Modernity: The Birth of the Addict
• 3. Intensified Consumption and the Expansion of Addiction
• PART II: Addictive Consumptions: Drugs, Food, Gambling
• 4. Drugs: Intoxicating Consumption
• 5. Food: Embodied Consumption
• 6. Gambling: Dematerialised Consumption
• Afterword.
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In this engaging new book, Gerda Reith explores key theoretical concepts in the sociology of consumption. Drawing on the ideas of Foucault, Marx and Bataille, amongst others, she investigates the ways that understandings of `the problems of consumption' change over time, and asks what these changes can tell us about their wider social and political contexts. Through this, she uses ideas about both consumption and addiction to explore issues around identity and desire, excess and control and reason and disorder. She also assesses how our concept of 'normal' consumption has grown out of efforts to regulate behaviour historically considered as disruptive or deviant, and how in the contemporary world the 'dark side' of consumption has been medicalised in terms of addiction, pathology and irrationality. By drawing on case studies of drugs, food and gambling, the volume demonstrates the ways in which modern practices of consumption are rooted in historical processes and embedded in geopolitical structures of power. It not only asks how modern consumer culture came to be in the form it is today, but also questions what its various manifestations can tell us about wider issues in capitalist modernity. Addictive Consumption offers a compelling new perspective on the origins, development and problems of consumption in modern society. The volume's interdisciplinary profile will appeal to scholars and students in sociology, psychology, history, philosophy and anthropology.
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• Chapter 1: Introduction: Reflecting on Africa's Contemporary Dynamics
• Chapter 2: Changing Politics
• Chapter 3: Respecting Diversity
• Chapter 4: Understanding Policy Space
• Chapter 5: Structural Transformation through Industrialisation
• Chapter 6: Increasing Agricultural Productivity
• Chapter 7: Revisiting the Social Contract
• Chapter 8: Adjusting to Climate Change
• Chapter 9: Inserting Agency in the Relations with China
• Chapter 10: Conclusions.
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"Lopes brings his rigour, insight, and experience to this timely new book, presenting a compelling rethink of traditional development models in Africa and the need to seize on transformational change to build a sustainable future for the continent." -Kofi Annan, former United Nations Secretary General "Some readers will enjoy Lopes' eclectic brilliance and breath-taking culture. Others will salute his ability to bring compelling new angles to every topic. Everyone will be impressed with his craftsmanship, his rich and multi-faceted approach to development, and his high ethical standards. It is impossible to read this jewel book and not feel smarter." -Celestin Monga, African Development Bank's Vice President and Chief Economist "Drawing on his distinguished academic career, policy experience at the highest level, and deep love of the continent, Lopes provides a visionary analysis of Africa's current problems and future prospects. This book provides a highly unusual combination of intellectualism and hard-nosed pragmatism. A singular achievement." -Ha-Joon Chang, University of Cambridge, UK "Thorough, thought-provoking, and beyond rhetoric: definitely a must-read for anyone who wants to understand Africa's present and future." -Enrico Letta, former Prime Minister of Italy, Dean of the Paris School of International Affairs, Sciences Po, France Lopes delivers an overview of the critical development issues facing the African continent today. He offers readers a blueprint of policies to address issues, and an intense, heartfelt meditation on the meaning of economic development in the age of democratic doubts, identity crises, global fears and threatening issues of sustainability.
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• Introduction: the African Union Development Agency and Africa's transformation in the twenty-first century: innovation or continuity?--
• 1. An analytical framework to explain the origin, development, and effects of AUDA--
• 2. The foundations and first generations of structural adjustment programs--
• 3. Partial reorientation of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank discourse and the creation of AUDA--
• 4. AUDA and international financial institutions: change or continuity?--
• 5. AUDA in the twenty-first century: evolution, implementation of key programs, institutional development, and inter-state coperation--
• 6. Financing Africa's development in the twenty-first century: assessment and perspectives of AUDA's resource mobilization strategy--
• 7. The way forward to transforming Africa by 2030/2063: resource mobilization, financing, and capacity-building strategies for effective delivery of the sustainable development goals and the African Union Agenda 2063-- Conclusion: continental development fifteen years after the creation of AUDA: theoretical and practical implications.
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Africa is home to many of the world's fastest-growing economies. This powerful book traces new continental institutions for development and their capacity to affect economic growth, regional integration, and international cooperation in Africa. It also assesses Africa's ability to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and the African Union's Agenda 2063. As the continent's most ambitious development initiative since independence, the African Union Development Agency (or AUDA, previously known as the New Partnership for Africa's Development or NEPAD) provides an excellent case study for examining how an African-based, continent-wide development institution emerged. Inspired by the ideas of Pan-Africanism and the African renaissance, NEPAD was created to bring Africa into the globalizing world, to close the gap between developing and developed countries, to enhance economic growth, and to eradicate poverty. Almost two decades after NEPAD's creation and given its transformation into AUDA, this brilliant book examines AUDA's role in achieving these goals.
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• Chapter 1: Introduction: Business and society relationship in Africa - an Africapitalism perspective
• Uwafiokun Idemudia and Kenneth Amaeshi
• Chapter 2: Big Business and the evolution of modern capitalism in Africa
• Scott D. Taylor
• Chapter 3: Africapitalism, business, and social construction of regional identity
• Okechukwu C. Iheduru
• Chapter 4: Africapitalism and the Sustainable Development Goals: Implications for multinational enterprises in Africa
• Kennth Amaeshi, Uwafiokun Idemudia, and Amon Chizema
• Chapter 5: Labour market institutions and work organisation in Africa: Developing a research agenda for Africapitalism
• Frank M. Horwitz, Clare Kelliher and Amon Chizema
• Chapter 6: Exploring the culture and cost of corruption in Nigeria: Can Africapitalism help?
• Uwafiokun Idemudia, Tahiru Azaaviele Liedong, Daniel Agbiboa and Kenneth Amaeshi
• Chapter 7: Africapitalism and human capital development
• Ifedapo Adeleye, Ogechi Adeola and Ebes Esho
• Chapter 8: What does Africapitalism have to do with brand Africa?
• Penelope Muzanenhamo
• Chapter 9: Africapitalism: A critical geneology and assessment
• Stefan Ouma
• Index.
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Using theory, empirical research, and case studies, this book explores the changing nature of business in Africa and how businesses can actively contribute to the development of Africa. It uses (and critically analyses) the concept of Africapitalism - a management philosophy and movement which seeks to blend the best of African values and Western management theories as a basis for sustainable development in Africa - to understand the subtle factors that underpin business decisions in Africa. The collection of chapters in this book are organized around actors, issues, and reflections. They collectively present an account of Africapitalism, albeit from different perspectives and on different issues, and open up a new space for rethinking business and society relations in Africa from an Africapitalism perspective. Crucial is the critical engagement with both the discourse and practice of Africapitalism and its implications for sustainable development. It is anticipated that the challenges and opportunities highlighted by the book would be embraced by researchers, policy makers, and practitioners in the broad area of business and society in Africa. This multidisciplinary book will be valuable reading for advanced students, researchers and policymakers looking at business in society; corporate social responsibility; sustainable business; international business and African development.
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• Inleiding
• 'n Motorongeluk trek die sneller
• Kapitalisme word die Afrikaner se grootste vyand
• Die Afrikanerdom skreur
• Britse imperialisme verower Smuts
• Die Afrikaners is plesieirg en hou van baklei
• Hoe mooi is dit wanneer broers saamwerk
• Die goue jare
• Die Afrikaner skud die bankwese in Suid-Afrika
• Die Afrikanerdom se grootste prestasie: Gencor
• Albert Wessels, pionier van Afrikaner-nyweraars
• Sake en sport meng goed
• Die Kaap se eie Blou Bul, Jan Bull
• Louis Luyt, 'n unieke mens
• Renier van Rooyen, vergete held
• Christo Wiese, smous by uitnemendheid
• Naspers, die eerste triljoenrandsprokie
• Die Stellenbosche boys gee die toon aan
• Jannie Mouton, vader van die nuwe Afrikaner-miljard©®rs.

"Saam met die sterwe van die ou Suid-Afrika het ook 'Afrikaner Volkskapitalisme' gesneuwel, wat veral gekenmerk is deur die einde van die eens magtige Sanlam en sy eweknie in die Noorde, Volkskas, wat eers deel van Rembrandt en toe later deel van Barclays van Brittanje geword het. Hierdie twee organisasies het vir dekades die dinamo van Afrikaner-sake aan die gang gehou. Terwyl Afrikaner-kapitalisme oor die laaste dekade of wat byna krampagtig gesoek het na nuwe suurstof om te kan oorleef, is daar stil-stil 'n nuwe grondslag gelê vir 'n nuwe geslag Afrikaner-kapitaliste. Nuwe mijardêrs is orals geskep deur aandele-pryse wat ten hemele gejaag is en in die proses het dit in die jongste tyd begin lyk of van hierdie bate-spirale op baie dun ys gebou is en dalk ook groot sarsies bedrog. Hierdie boek bespreek die huidige ekonomiese klimaat op 'n interessante en toeganklike manier."--Publisher's description.