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Book

Basic Accounting for Small Groups

01/01/1992

1 documents

157 pages long

Languages: English

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The success of any venture, whatever its size, depends on proper financial control. This book offers a step-by-step guide to basic accounting and financial management techniques. It is written in plain language for people who have no previous experience of accounting and book-keeping. Using simple case studies, the author shows how to: construct a budget […]

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The Andes: A quest for justice

01/01/1992

1 documents

113 pages long

Languages: English

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Cholera epidemics, mass unemployment, drug trafficking, and conflict: these are the signs of Andean societies in crisis. Whole communities are now on the margins of survival in Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. Daunting levels of poverty have been created by harsh new economic policies, which compound the legacy of colonial exploitation, military dictatorship, unfair […]

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The role of marketing in income generation: Two case studies

01/11/1991

3 pages long

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The author describes two income-generation weaving projects, in Thailand and in Indonesia, both of which have had involvement with Oxfam Trading. She attributes the success of the former to sound marketing, confirming demand for reasonably priced quality products. The Indonesian project has failed primarily due to a lack of investigation of potential commercial markets. This […]

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Relief and rehabilitation work in Mozambique: Institutional capacity and NGO executional strategies

01/11/1991

11 pages long

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The nature of the Mozambique ’emergencies and its institutional context pose a significant challenge to NGO aid strategies, as these organisations seek to reconcile objectives of short-term effectiveness and accountability with goals of long-term capacity-building and sustainability. The increasing emphasis on the former within the Zambezia Province Emergency Programme may be prejudicing the government’s capacity […]

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Gender, development, and training: Raising awareness in the planning process

01/11/1991

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Gender, development, and training: Raising awareness in the planning process

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Several decades of development experience have yielded a wealth of findings about the key assumptions, procedures, and practices by which women have been marginalised in development planning. The value of these insights lies not only in highlighting flawed planning procedures, but also in helping to formulate alternative frameworks for thinking about development. This article discusses […]

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Breaking the cycle of violence: doing development in situations of conflict

01/11/1991

8 pages long

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During the 1980s, armed conflict devastated an increasing number of the world’s poorest countries. Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) engaged in relief and development were hard-pressed to determine their most effective response to situations where normal development became meaningless, and yet short-term relief programmes failed to deal with ‘permanent emergencies. This article describes the nature of these […]

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Calculating food-aid cost-effectiveness: Evidence from Ethiopia

01/11/1991

8 pages long

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These Notes are based on research carried out as part of a World Bank/World Food Programme study into food aid in Sub-Saharan Africa. The authors use economic analyses to establish a framework for considering the cost-effectiveness of food aid compared to financial aid, and they apply this framework to the Wollaita food aid project. Food […]

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The psychosocial effects of conflict in the third world

01/11/1991

15 pages long

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In current armed conflicts around the world, over 90 per cent of casualties are civilians. This article reviews medical and anthropological evidence of the psychosocial effects of extreme experiences such as torture, mutilation, rape, and the violent displacement of communities. The consequences for women and children are considered in particular. The author argues that the […]

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