Download or read book Financing Political Parties and Election Campaigns written by Ingrid van Biezen and published by Council of Europe. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On cover & title page: Integrated project "Making democratic institutions work"

Download or read book Diaspora Networks in International Business written by Maria Elo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-12 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This contributed volume focuses on diasporans, their characteristics, networks, resources and activities in relation to international business and entrepreneurship. It presents an overview of diaspora concepts from an economic perspective, and analyzes the global-economic and societal effects and mechanisms, revealing both positive and negative aspects of diaspora activities. Providing insights into the socio-cultural influences, it discusses diaspora entrepreneurship and international business, the respective organisational models, investments and business types. Lastly it offers an assessment of managing diaspora resources and policymaking. This book was created by an interdisciplinary team of editors, co-authors and reviewers including historians, sociologists, psychologists, linguists and ethnologists, as well as experts in public policy, international business, marketing and entrepreneurship. This unique team (many of the authors are themselves diasporans with an extensive understanding of their topic) provides the first global academic platform on the subject, combining the latest empirical evidence from developing, emerging, transitional and developed countries with various combinations of diaspora flows that to date have received little attention.

Download or read book Academic Freedom in Africa written by Mahmood Mamdani and published by Codesria. This book was released on 1994 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteen of Africa's most distinguished scholars have contributed to this major and timely work, including Claude Ake, Archie Mafeje, Ali Mazrui, Issa Shivji and Joseph Ki-Zerbo. As a first step towards greater consideration of the nature of the research environment in Africa and to reflect on the social and material context of research as an intellectual activity, CODESRIA co-organised a major conference on academic freedom and research in Africa in Kampala in 1990. A selection of the conferencepapers are contained in this volume. The papers cover the relationship of capital and the state to academic freedom, the historical processes which have shaped intellectuals in Africa, issue of autonomy and democracy andthe question of funding relationships, and the difficulty of alliances that question the right to independence. The book is divided into fivesections: Reflections; Methodological Perspectives; Global Influences andLocal Constraints; Intelligentsia and Activism; and Organizing Academics.

Download or read book Engaged Observer written by Victoria Sanford and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Anthropology has long been associated with an ethos of "engagement." The field's core methods and practices involve long-term interpersonal contact between researchers and their study participants, giving major research topics in the field a distinctively human face. The fact that these interactions frequently cross social parameters, including class, race, ethnicity, and gender, raises important questions. Can research findings be authentic and objective? Are anthropologists able to use their data to aid the participants of their study, and is that aid always welcome? In this book, authors bring together an international array of scholars who have been embedded in some of the most conflict-ridden and dangerous zones in the world to reflect on the role and responsibility of anthropological inquiry. They explore issues of truth and objectivity, the role of the academic, the politics of memory, and the impact of race, gender, and social position on the research process. Through ethnographic case studies, they offer models for conducting engaged research and illustrate the contradictions and challenges of doing so".--BOOKJACKET.

Download or read book Higher Education in Africa written by and published by Office. This book was released on 1998 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En este libro se proporciona una visión global de la situación y repercusión social y económica de la enseñanza superior en África. Trata los siguientes aspectos: la relevancia de la universidad africana en temas como la cultura de la paz, la globalización y el dessarrollo de zonas geográficas con el Sáhara y el Este de África. También se tratan otros temas como la calidad de la educación superior, su gestión y financiación, el acceso a la universidad, la igualdad de oportunidades, el acceso a la mujer, y la consecución de tratados de cooperación entre las universidades africanas.

Download or read book Access and Equity in Higher Education written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed articles.

Download or read book La gouvernance universitaire au Congo Kinshasa written by Jean Otemikongo Mandefu Yahisule and published by Editions L'Harmattan. This book was released on 2019-03-28 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depuis trois décennies, la gouvernance universitaire est au coeur des réformes du système éducatif congolais du supérieur. Cet ouvrage procède à l'autopsie sans complaisance de la gouvernance du système éducatif congolais du supérieur et en identifie les goulots d'étranglement. Il met au point un modèle de gouvernance rénovée du système éducatif congolais du supérieur. Le modèle proposé attire l'attention sur les écueils majeurs qui ont miné et minent encore la gouvernance des Établissements publics d'enseignement supérieur et universitaire au cours des réformes passées et en cours.

Download or read book The Globalization Syndrome written by James H. Mittelman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2000-02-28 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here James Mittelman explains the systemic dynamics and myriad consequences of globalization, focusing on the interplay between globalizing market forces, in some instances guided by the state, and the needs of society. Mittelman finds that globalization is hardly a unified phenomenon but rather a syndrome of processes and activities: a set of ideas and a policy framework. More specifically, globalization is propelled by a changing division of labor and power, manifested in a new regionalism, and challenged by fledgling resistance movements. The author argues that a more complete understanding of globalization requires an appreciation of its cultural dimensions. From this perspective, he considers the voices of those affected by this trend, including those who resist it and particularly those who are hurt by it. The Globalization Syndrome is among the first books to present a holistic and multilevel analysis of globalization, connecting the economic to the political and cultural, joining agents and multiple structures, and interrelating different local, regional, and global arenas. Mittelman's findings are drawn mainly from the non-Western worlds. He provides a cross-regional analysis of Eastern Asia, an epicenter of globalization, and Southern Africa, a key node in the most marginalized continent. The evidence shows that while offering many benefits to some, globalization has become an uneasy correlation of deep tensions, giving rise to a range of alternative scenarios.

Download or read book Eat Sleep Bagpipes Repeat written by Mirako Press and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-18 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This adorable music notebook is perfect for staffs, kids and musicians. The high-quality manuscript book includes 110 pages of 12 staves. Let exercise your composing skills with this well-designed music sketchbook! Enjoy!

Download or read book Scholars in the Marketplace The Dilemmas of Neo Liberal Reform at Makerere University 1989 2005 written by Mahmood Mamdani and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2007-09-15 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars in the Marketplace is a case study of market-based reforms at Uganda's Makerere University. With the World Bank heralding neoliberal reform at Makerere as the model for the transformation of higher education in Africa, it has implications for the whole continent. At the global level, the Makerere case exemplifies the fate of public universities in a market-oriented and capital friendly era. The Makerere reform began in the 1990s and was based on the premise that higher education is more of a private than a public good. Instead of pitting the public against the private, and the state against the market, this book shifts the terms of the debate toward a third alternative than explores different relations between the two. The book distinguishes between privatisation and commercialisation, two processes that drove the Makerere reform. It argues that whereas privatisation (the entry of privately sponsored students) is compatible with a public university where priorities are publicly set, commercialisation (financial and administrative autonomy for each faculty to design a market-responsive curriculum) inevitably leads to a market determination of priorities in a public university. The book warns against commercialisation of public universities as the subversion of public institutions for private purposes.

Download or read book L universit en chantier en RDC written by Pascal Kapagama Ikando and published by KARTHALA Editions. This book was released on 2012 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La République démocratique du Congo est aujourd'hui le deuxième pays le plus vaste d'Afrique. Avec ses soixante-sept millions d'habitants et un taux de croissance démographique des plus élevés du monde, elle a un immense défi à relever : développer durablement son territoire pour le bien-être général de sa population dont plus de la moitié a moins de vingt ans. L'éducation, en particulier l'enseignement supérieur et universitaire, est une variable-clé de ce développement. Le budget prévisionnel 2011 de l'éducation, l'une des cinq priorités déclarées, ne représentait que 3 % du budget national congolais. Au niveau de l'exécution, il a dépassé à peine 1 %. Toutefois, il convient de noter que, dans le cadre du premier quinquennat du Président Joseph Kabila, le programme de réhabilitation et de construction des infrastructures des établissements d'enseignement supérieur et universitaire a connu un vrai début d'exécution, notamment aux Universités de Kindu, de Kisangani, de Lubumbashi et de Kinshasa. La RDC est un pays où l'on croit trop que légiférer suffit à résoudre des problèmes. Ce dont la patrie de Lumumba a besoin, c'est de l'application des textes adoptés et promulgués. L'ensemble des contributions de ce volume rappelle fort heureusement cette réalité, d'abord dans une démarche sociohistorique qui tire des leçons des réformes passées, puis dans une approche empirique qui examine les perceptions et pratiques actuelles, enfin dans une approche prospective qui explore les modalités d'une action volontaire dont, au final, l'effort sera payant pour le pays.

Download or read book Accelerating Catch up written by and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2009 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book lays out a rationale, provides supporting evidence, and suggests promising pathways for Sub-Saharan Africa to sustain current economic growth by aligning its tertiary education systems with national economic strategies and labor market needs.

Download or read book MRP written by Terry Lunn and published by Irwin Professional Pub. This book was released on 1992 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Achieve consistent, efficient productivity in your plant with the help of MRP: Integrating Material Requirements Planning and Modern Business by Terry Lunn with Susan A. Neff. You'll master the essentials of every step of the MRP methodology--from inventory planning and production scheduling to managing capacity requirements and integrating resources. Packed with charts, graphs, and specific examples, this sure-fire guide shows you how to solve scheduling dilemmas and fill orders on time and on budget. . .pinpoint key problem areas to prevent or reconcile errors and inconsistencies. . .and calculate the right quantities needed to support a desired schedule. It also helps you interpret records and reports in order to accurately manage inventory levels and materials requirements--and use MRP to integrate the various functions of your business unit.

Download or read book Europe and Globalization written by H. Kierzkowski and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-06-14 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globalization has provoked passionate debate and street demonstrations reminiscent of May 1968. The central question of Europe and Globalization is 'what did Europe do for globalization in the past, and what is globalization doing for Europe today?' The contributors to the volume assess this complex process, and Europe's role within it. Bringing together a team of leading international scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds, this is a valuable and wide-ranging contribution to the debate.

Download or read book University Crisis and Student Protests in Africa written by Francis B. Nyamnjoh and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2012 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faced with a deepening crisis in their universities, African students have demonstrated a growing activism and militancy. They have been engaged in numerous, often violent, strikes for improvements in their deteriorating living and study conditions and the introduction of a democratic culture in the universities and society as a whole, including the right to express their views, organise in student unions and participate in university management. This book focuses on a recent violent strike action in Cameroon's state universities, with special attention to the University of Buea - the only English-speaking university in the country between 1993 and 2011. Such a detailed study on student strikes is still rare in African studies, and maybe even more important, this book pays special attention to certain elements that have been of great significance to the strike but are often overlooked in narratives of other student actions in Africa, namely the use of cell phones, differences in gender roles of student activists, the religious dimensions of the strike, the central role of some public spaces like bars and cafés for the planning and execution of student strikes, and the power of the photocopier. The book goes far beyond simply documenting the various protest actions of students against the state and university authorities. It also provides ample room for comments from journalists and other civil-society members and groups on various aspects of the strike.

Download or read book Governance and Politics in Africa written by Michael Bratton and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A discussion of the concept of "governance" and its use in comparative politics today introduces case studies from Botswana, Burkina Faso, Niger, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania, and Zaire.

Download or read book Les universit s africaines francophones face au LMD written by Jean-Émile Charlier and published by Editions L'Harmattan. This book was released on 2009 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Le processus de Bologne est un engagement visant à construire un espace européen de l'enseignement supérieur avant 2010 en établissant notamment une structure en 2 cycles des études supérieures. Ce document examine les enjeux et les contraintes de cette réforme sur les universités d'Afrique francophone dont l'organisation académique a été largement inspirée par celles des institutions européennes.