Like many low-income countries, Timor-Leste faces challenges in providing employment for and increasing the skills of its labor force-challenges made more acute by high fertility rates, a very young population, and the capacity constraints of a new nation. However, there is limited information...

1. Introduction -- 2. The labour question in the Gold Coast, 1870-1906 / Jeff Crisp -- 3. British nitrate companies and the emergence of Chile's proletariat, 1880-1914 / Manuel Fernandez -- 4. Proletarianisation in Mozambique / Barry Munslow -- 5. The creation of a proletariat on Peru's coastal...

The US choice of a misdirected target of priority concern, a ‘War on Terror’, combined with the use of hard power to the absolute detriment of soft power has undermined the enlightenment values that had begun to flourish in the form of humanitarian policies, values and laws which...

Climate change produces future risks and increasing climate variability produces current risks. Reducing disaster risk is addressed at the national level using approaches usually developed by the United Nations. These approaches, particularly in the developed world, address resilience building...