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India

01/01/2004

3 documents

96 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

India is now the world’s tenth most productive industrialised country, and the second largest exporter of computer software. Its middle class is larger than the total population of the USA. But the lands, rights, and livelihoods of the rural poor have been sacrificed to commercial ventures such as mining and forestry; in the cities, economic […]

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Kenya: Promised Land?

01/01/2004

5 documents

73 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Finance

Overview

Kenya, with its fertile soils, diverse climate, and enterprising people, should be a land of milk and honey. Tourists see safari parks and palm-fringed beaches, luxury hotels, and skyscraper offices; but the reality for many Kenyans is a life of desperate poverty and insecurity.

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Ethiopia: Breaking new ground

01/01/2003

1 documents

73 pages long

Languages: English

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This book celebrates the rich cultures of an ancient society, and describes its people’s efforts to revive their land. Times are hard: the years of war, drought, and political oppression in the 1980s left soils exhausted, schools and hospitals derelict, and communities fragmented. But the first edition of this book (Ethiopia: Breaking New Ground), published […]

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Pakistan: Tradition and change

01/01/2003

4 documents

73 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

Many dramatic developments have taken place in Pakistan since the publication of the first edition of Oxfam’s Profile (Pakistan Tradition and Change, 1996). The original text, which describes Pakistan’s history and rich cultural heritage, and self-help community schemes run by grassroots groups, is reproduced in full, with its evocative illustrations. In addition, this up-dated edition […]

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Ghana

01/01/2003

4 documents

89 pages long

Languages: English

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This book paints a vivid picture of life in Ghana, through the stories of Ghanaians themselves. Including a brief historical background – of the sixteenth-century states trading in ivory, gold, and slaves, the effect of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, and of British colonial rule – the book traces the growth of modern Ghana.

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Indonesia

01/01/2002

5 documents

97 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

Indonesia is a country of superlatives and contradictions: its 17,000 islands span an extent that is wider than the landmass of the USA; it is the fourth most populous country in the world, and its Muslim population is the world’s largest; more than half of the total population of 203 million live on the island […]

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Uganda

01/01/2001

4 documents

93 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

Over the last 50 years, Uganda, once known as ‘the pearl of Africa’, has suffered dictatorship, economic collapse, and systematic human rights abuses. Yet today, Uganda is widely viewed as an inspirational economic success story, and as a symbol of a more vibrant, successful Africa.

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Bolivia

01/01/2001

5 documents

98 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

In Bolivia more rural people live below the poverty line than in any other country in the world. Five hundred years after the arrival of the Spanish conquistadores, the country’s rich natural resources are still controlled and exploited by a privileged minority, while the indigenous majority struggle to subsist on the poorest soils, or migrate […]

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Test Book 2023

02/01/2000

3 documents

50 pages long

Languages: English, French

Keywords

Asia

Overview

This is a test, please ignore it. T Ceci est un test, veuillez l’ignorer.1. Introduction 2. L’argumentation 3. Objections 4. Conclusion

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Cambodia

01/01/2000

3 documents

89 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

Cambodia is a country of contradictions. It is a devoutly Buddhist nation, with a highly sophisticated traditional culture, represented for many by the elegance of its classical dance forms and the splendour of the temples of AngkorWat. But for almost forty years Cambodia was threatened by cycles of violence and destruction from which it is […]

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