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UNINA9910568244603321 |
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Autore |
Zenil Hector |
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Methods and applications of algorithmic complexity : beyond statistical lossless compression / / Hector Zenil, Fernando Soler Toscano, and Nicolas Gauvrit |
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Berlin ; ; Heidelberg : , : Springer, , [2022] |
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©2022 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (270 pages) |
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Emergence, Complexity and Computation ; ; v.44 |
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Computational complexity |
Computational complexity - Data processing |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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UNINA9910790099003321 |
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Autore |
Stevens Christopher |
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Food aid and the developing world : four African case studies / / Christopher Stevens |
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London : , : Routledge, , 2011, c1979 |
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1-136-89169-2 |
1-136-89170-6 |
1-283-10564-0 |
9786613105646 |
0-203-84045-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (175 p.) |
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Collana |
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Routledge library editions. Development ; ; v. 5 |
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361.5/5 |
361.55 |
363.883091724 |
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Food supply - Developing countries |
Food relief - Developing countries |
Economic assistance - Developing countries |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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section 1. Introduction -- section 2. The uses of food aid -- section 3. The impact of food aid. |
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Food aid is a controversial form of development assistance and this book, first published in 1979, seeks to counter allegations from critics by taking account of both direct and indirect affects. Based on field research in Tunisia, Botswana, Upper Volta and Lesotho, it considers aid from the UK, EEC, USAID, the World Food Programme, Canada and France, and draws a number of policy-orientated conclusions about the impact of food aid on nutrition, consumer prices and agricultural production. In the light of the evidence from field studies it is shown that many of the claims advan |
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