The great transition and the long term perspective / Thomas J. Duesterberg and Herbert I. London -- World population prospects to the year 2025 : declining fertility, aging societies, and health setbacks / Nicholas Eberstadt -- The biotech breakthrough / Michael Fumento -- High-tech help for the...

"This volume presents a global range of ethnographic case studies to explore the ways in which - in the context of the restructuring of industrial work, the ongoing financial crisis, and the surge in unemployment and precarious employment - local and global actors engage with complex social...

With the use of comparable data from seven West African capitals, we attempt to assess the rationale behind development policies targeting high rates of school enrolment through the prism of allocation of labour and returns to skills across the formal and informal sectors. We find that people...