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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 […] View resource Book Kenya: Promised Land? 01 Jan 2004 5 documents 73 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email 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. View resource Book Ethiopia: Breaking new ground 01 Jan 2003 1 documents 73 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Conflict Disasters Natural resources Social protection Overview 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 […] View resource Book Pakistan: Tradition and change 01 Jan 2003 4 documents 73 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Conflict Disasters Protection 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 […] View resource Book Ghana 01 Jan 2003 4 documents 89 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Overview 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. View resource Book Indonesia 01 Jan 2002 5 documents 97 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Agriculture Civil society Finance Livelihoods Natural resources 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 […] View resource Book Uganda 01 Jan 2001 4 documents 93 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Conflict Disasters HIV and AIDS 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. View resource Book Bolivia 01 Jan 2001 5 documents 98 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Debt Land rights Natural resources 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 […] View resource Book Cambodia 01 Jan 2000 3 documents 89 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Conflict Disasters Land rights Livelihoods Protection 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 […] View resource Book Albania 01 Jan 2000 4 documents 89 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Overview The Albania Country Profile skilfully unravels the historical and political background to the present situation in Albania. Despite the advent of democracy in 1992, Albanians have found it hard to participate fully in the building of a new society. The volatility of regional politics in the Balkans, and the absence of a democratic culture, have […] View resource Posts navigation Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Next page Spotted an error? Let us know
