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Africa 2050
Racki, Jeffrey; Patel, Praful; DeGroot, David - In: Global Journal of Emerging Market Economies 6 (2014) 1, pp. 15-34
The fast-evolving process of urbanization will transform Africa’s future. Urbanization can be harnessed to build an …
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La revolución cubana en el seno de la Nueva Izquierda británica: Una visión desde el futuro
Artaraz, Kepa - In: Entelequia. Revista Interdisciplinar (2006) 1, pp. 3-16
This article examines the place occupied by the Cuban Revolution in the British New Left by contextualizing the historical and ideological parameters that conformed the British New Left in the 1960s and exploring the extent to which the Cuban Revolution participated in its formative process....
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Health Financing in Vanuatu : Challenges and Options
Anderson, Ian - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
Population growth, an unfinished agenda of communicable diseases and maternal health and nutrition, and the rapid rise of Non-communicable diseases are putting increasing strain on not just the Ministry of Health budget, but also the broader financial position of the government as a whole. These...
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Comercial Relations Between USA and Cuba in Times of Peace and War,1803-1807
Fernández-de-Pinedo, Nadia - Departamento de Análisis Económico: Teoría … - 2001
dictated by the king. Thanks to the handwritten Balances of the port of Havana from 1803 to 1807 we can reconstruct Cuban … commerce at the beginning of the XIXth Century and compare the volume of merchandises exported and imported from Havana in … links were intensifying in war times. Anglo-American trade with Cuba have been multiplied almost three times. Anglo …
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Afghanistan : the current employment and socio-economic situation and prospects
Pain, Adam; Goodhand, Jonathan - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 2002
Provides an historically based analysis of Afghanistan's current socio-economic situation and the implications of this for reconstruction and employment creation.
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THE EVALUATION OF LOCATION SELECTION FOR SHOPPING CENTERS IN TURKEY: THE CASE OF ISTANBUL
Ünlükara, Tuba; Berkoz, Lale - International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences - 2014
Today, Shopping centers are not places that only respond to shopping needs but they have become structures that offer social activities and various facilities, as well. Cinemas, children’s playground, entertainment and recreation areas, restaurants and food departments are the components of...
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Physical Description and Determinants of Evolution of Structures. An Attempt to Analyse Their Implications for Optimising Architectural and Urban Space Planning.
Hubert, J.Z. - In: Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems - … 4 (2006) 1, pp. 19-28
Physical conditions for spontaneous growth and development of complex structures are discussed: using the concept of {free energy (thermodynamic negentropy)} - {structural information (Shanonnian) negentropy} transformation. The phenomena of structure ageing and decay are analysed. Degree of...
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Urbaphobie et désir d'urbain, au péril de la ville
Sallez, Alain - ESSEC Business School - 2007
Individual housing is preferred by French people since world war 2, 87 % in 2006. This tendency has given birth to urban sprawl rejected by city-planner because it is a form of non sustainable development. They propose urban politics of densification, "the compact city", which may fail if one...
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Transportation Policy in Oakland: As It Is and as It Should Be 
Parks, Jamie - Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS), University … - 2013
Oakland has more BART stations than any other Bay Area jurisdiction, numerous mixed-use neighborhoods, and one of the highest bike-to-work mode shares in the country. Yet, the City has failed to fully take advantage of these natural advantages, partially due to the lack of a cohesive vision for...
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Emerging Megalopolis: Bangalore, From ‘Boiled Beans’ Town to Advanced IT City
Sastry, G.S. - eSocialSciences - 2006
Historically, Bangalore’s growth and physical spread had been dictated by the location decisions of certain important industrial, institutional and residential activities, rather than as an outcome of any city planning exercise or planned vision of its development. Such an ad-hoc growth...
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