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The countries of Latin America are plagued by poverty, high rates of population growth and unemployment, low growth in their gross national product, low rates of industrialization, high dependencee on agriculture, and uneven income distribution.

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With the benefit of a historical perspective on the development of American public service from the days of the progressives to the present, the contributors to this book argue that deregulating the public service is a necessary but insufficient condition for much of the needed improvement in governmental administration.

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While sales negotiation is traditionally considered a formal process conducted by teams of buyers and sellers, this handy reference recognizes that negotiating strategies and techniques are actually required in many instances in day-to-day selling activities as well, and provides advice geared to the salesperson's specific daily needs.

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This resource book documents and analyzes current trends in the economic development of the South Asian countries of India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Nepal, and evaluates the progress they have made in achieving sustained economic growth and improvement in the quality of life for present and future generations.

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If you want to see your dream come to fruition, you must learn how to develop the leaders around you.

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This book provides research-based evidence within the Competing Values Framework to examine women's leadership styles, demonstrate their suitability for senior management positions, and show how employers must embrace women in leadership roles in order for their companies to be diversified and globalized.

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The achievement of better relations among developed and developing countries remains an urgent task as the world community seeks to formulate a new and more equitable economic order.

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This work examines the process of development financing through a comparison between some of the less-well-developed Caribbean countries and the More-Developed Commonwealth Caribbean countries of Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago.

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This volume examines the experiences of a number of Third World countries in implementing development plans in the 1970s and offers some guidelines for research, development, and analysis of policy.

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The current macro-environment of development has been accompanied by a plethora of new concerns and methods, such as how to consider gender in development projects and how to develop participatory-centered projects.

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The current macro-environment of development has been accompanied by a plethora of new concerns and methods, such as how to consider gender in development projects and how to develop participatory-centered projects.

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Originally published in 1967, the modest and plainly descriptive title of Development Projects Observed is deceptive. Today, it is recognized as the ultimate volume in Hirschmans groundbreaking trilogy on development, and as the bridge to the broader social science themes of his subsequent writings.

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The experience accumulated in the wake of more than two decades of sustained effort to promote growth and change in the low-income countries presents a rich field for scholarly inquiry and new insights into the development process.

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Explanations relate to deficiencies of Chinese cultural values, social structure, class system, bureaucracy, and technology.

This volume examines the subject of technological development, particularly agricultural development, in order to evaluate whether China suffered all-round technological stagnation.

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Development Without Aid provides a critique of foreign aid as a resource that is unable to provide the dynamism to propel the poorest countries out of poverty. It examines the rapid growth of the worlds diasporas as an alternative dynamic with potential to supersede foreign aid and drive a reassertion of sovereignty by poor states, especially in Africa, over their own development.

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This volume fills a gap in the literature by analyzing basic issues in development economics as they affect a particular type of Third World nation - small island economies.

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A collection of essays that introduces the thriving illicit industries and activities within the global economy whose growth challenges traditional notions of wealth, power, and progress. It argues that far from being marginal, illicit activities are a fundamental part of globalization.

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A collection of essays that introduces the thriving illicit industries and activities within the global economy whose growth challenges traditional notions of wealth, power, and progress. It argues that far from being marginal, illicit activities are a fundamental part of globalization.

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An informed, insightful and intelligent analysis of the economic impact of decentralization brought about by constitutional devolution.

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An informed, insightful and intelligent analysis of the economic impact of decentralization brought about by constitutional devolution.

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The thesis of this volume is that writing done by students who control their own topics, who have genuine purposes for writing, and have a real, known audience, is quite different and valuable in its own right.

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Papers on the business side of baseball, originally presented at the annual Middlebury College conference on economic issues in 1991. It looks at the players' labour market; the impact of the fans; pay, performance and competitive balance; and the influence of race on salaries.

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This revised edition contains over 5,500 terms used by air traffic controllers, pilots, cabin crew, maintenance crews, ground staff and other airline personnel. Designed for those specialising in aviation and related industries, including trainee pilots, maintenance engineers and other professionals, this dictionary has all the words you need.