Transformation groups for beginners / S. V. Duzhin, B. D. Chebotarevsky ; translated from the Russian by S.V. Duzhin

• Record Nr.: UNISALENTO991003446239707536
• Autore: Duzhin, S. V.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Providence, R. I. : American Mathematical Society, c2004
• ISBN: 0821836439
• Descrizione fisica: x, 246 p. : ill. ; 22 cm
• Collana: Student mathematical library ; 25
• Classificazione: AMS 22-01; LC QA385.D8913
• Altri autori (Persone): Chebotarevsky, B. D.
• Disciplina: 512.55
• Soggetti: Transformation groups - Popular works; Algebraic topology - Popular works
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index

Poverty reduction strategies : a comparative study applied to empirical research / / Philipp Albert Theodor Kircher

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910297039603321
• Autore: Kircher Philipp Albert Theodor
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Bern, : Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group, 2018; Frankfurt am Main, Germany : , : Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, , 2002
• ISBN: 3-631-75366-7
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (290)
• Collana: Goettinger Studien zur Entwicklungsoekonomik / Goettingen Studies in Development Economics.
• Disciplina: 339.46
• Soggetti: Poverty; Poor
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- LIST OF FIGURES -- LIST OF TABLES -- LIST OF ANNEXES -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Aim of the Analysis -- 1.2. Examination Procedure -- 1.3. Strategies Reviewed in the Analysis -- 1.4. The Role of Poverty Reduction: Poverty Reduction vs. Other Developmental Goals -- 2. Poverty Reduction as Focal Point of Development Cooperation: The International Consensus -- 2.1. The Evolution Towards the Current Consensus -- 2.1.1. Overview -- 2.1.2. Growth -- 2.1.3. Redistribution with Growth -- 2.1.4. Basic Needs Approach -- 2.1.5. Free Market Forces -- 2.2. Today's Understanding of Poverty Reduction -- 2.3. Poverty Definitions beyond Monetary Income -- 2.3.1. Conceptual Dimensions of Poverty Definitions -- 2.3.2. The Current Poverty Definition -- 2.3.3. International Development Targets -- 2.4. The Domestic Framework for Poverty Reduction -- 2.4.1. Economic Framework -- 2.4.1.1. Growth and Equality -- 2.4.1.2. The Economic Incentive System -- 2.4.1.3. Creating Economic Opportunities -- 2.4.1.3.1. Poor People's Assets -- 2.4.1.3.2. Access to Markets -- 2.4.1.4. Excursion into Infrastructure Investment -- 2.4.2. Necessary Political Condition -- 2.4.2.1. Linkages Between Political Conditions and Economic Issues -- 2.4.2.2. Empowerment -- 2.4.2.2.1. Human Rights and Equality -- 2.4.2.2.2. Participation -- ; 2.4.2.2.3. Democratization -- 2.4.2.3. Good Governance -- 2.4.2.3.1. The Concept -- 2.4.2.3.2. Accountability, Decentralization and Transparency -- 2.4.2.3.3. Stemming Corruption -- 2.4.2.3.4. Rule of Law and Accessibility of the Law -- 2.4.3. Measures to Provide Security for Poor People -- 2.4.3.1. The Need for Security -- 2.4.3.2. The Role of Private vs. State Security Provision -- 2.4.3.3. Measures of State Security Provision -- 2.4.4. Comprehensiveness or Excessiveness? -- 2.5. International Regimes.; 2.5.1. International Institutional Framework -- 2.5.1.1. Trade -- 2.5.1.2. Finance -- 2.5.1.3. Environment -- 2.5.2. The Donor Community -- 2.5.2.1. The Meaning of Partnership: Ownership, Conditionality and Political Dialogue -- 2.5.2.2. Donor Responsibilities: Donor Coordination, Cooperation and Policy Coherence -- 2.5.2.3. Knowledge, Alliances and Awareness Raising -- 2.6. Synopsis: Novelties and Challenges of the New Strategic Conception -- 2.7. Initiated Reforms -- 3. Differing Accentuations -- 3.1. Merits and Difficulties of Differing Focal Points -- 3.2. The World Bank -- 3.2.1. World Bank Background -- 3.2.2. Insights on Political Systems and Coalitions -- 3.2.3. National Security Schemes -- 3.2.4. Concerns for Macroeconomic Policy and Inequality -- 3.2.5. Reservation with Human Rights and Democracy -- 3.3. United Kingdom -- 3.3.1. UK's Background on Development Assistance -- 3.3.2. Concentration -- 3.3.3. International Development Targets and Impact Measurement -- 3.3.4. Knowledge -- 3.3.5. Globalization -- 3.3.6. New Strategic Areas: Water Scarcity and the Urban Poor -- 3.3.7. Long-term vs. Short-term Benefits -- 3.4. Germany -- 3.4.1. Germany's Background on Development Assistance -- 3.4.2. Support for Middle-income Countries -- 3.4.3. Peace and Conflict Prevention -- 3.4.4. Agrarian Development -- 3.4.5. Environmental Implications of Energy Supply -- 3.4.6. Alliances within Industrialized Nations -- 3.5. Sweden -- 3.5.1. The Background of Sweden's Development Cooperation -- 3.5.2. Knowledge and Education -- 3.5.3. Disabled People and Marginalized Groups -- 3.5.4. NGOs -- 3.5.4. Conditionality -- 3.6. Accentuations: Benefits or Hindrance? -- 3.7. Consolidation: Consensus and Accentuations -- 3.7.1. Consensus on Three Levels -- 3.7.2. Stronger Accentuations with Decreasing Level of Abstraction.; 3.7.3. Synopsis of the New Consensus and its Accentuations -- 4. Implications for Project Evaluations -- 4.1. Increasing Importance of Impact Measurement -- 4.2. Background: The German Financial Cooperation and the KfW -- 4.3. Aim of the Empirical Study -- 4.4. Study Design -- 4.4.1. Variables -- 4.4.2. Sampling Procedure -- 4.5. Findings -- 4.5.1. Procedure of Analysis -- 4.5.2. Quantitative Analysis -- 4.5.3. Qualitative Analysis -- 4.6. Discussion of the Findings -- 4.7. Recommendations -- 4.8. Synopsis of the Empirical Study -- 5. Concluding Remarks -- ANNEX -- REFERENCES.
• Sommario/riassunto: Poverty remains one of the greatest problems of our time, causing starvation and humiliation in poor countries and contributing to problems of conflict, migration and environmental degradation effecting also richer countries. This study provides a systematical analysis of today’s donor strategies for development cooperation, which unite around the goal of poverty reduction. The most recent strategies of the World Bank and the German, British and Swedish official development agencies are compared and evaluated. Their broad consensus on goals and conceptual elements is comprehensively presented. Differences in accentuations regarding beneficiaries and implementation methods are highlighted. An empirical study of the poverty focus in project evaluations of the German Financial Cooperation rounds off the analysis by exemplarily pointing at the ; practical implications of the new strategies.

Obstinate Hebrews : Representations of Jews in France, 1715-1815 / / Ronald Schechter

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910783022603321
• Autore: Schechter Ronald
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2003]; ©2003
• ISBN: 1-282-35695-X; 9786612356957; 0-520-92935-7; 1-59734-780-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (346 p.)
• Collana: Studies on the History of Society and Culture ; ; 49
• Disciplina: 305.892/4044/09033
• Soggetti: Jews - France - Social conditions - 18th century; French literature - 19th century - History and criticism; Jews in literature; Public opinion - France - History - 19th century; Public opinion - France - History - 18th century; Jews - Public opinion; Jews - France - Identity; France Ethnic relations
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-317) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. A Nation within the Nation?: The Jews of Old Regime France -- 2. Jews and Philosophes -- 3. Jews and Citizens -- 4. Contrapuntal Readings: Jewish Self-Representation in Prerevolutionary France -- 5. Constituting Differences: The French Revolution and the Jews -- 6. Familiar Strangers: Napoleon and the Jews -- Conclusion: Jews and Other "Others" -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Enlightenment writers, revolutionaries, and even Napoleon discussed ; and wrote about France's tiny Jewish population at great length. Why was there so much thinking about Jews when they were a minority of less than one percent and had little economic and virtually no political power? In this unusually wide-ranging study of representations of Jews in eighteenth-century France-both by Gentiles and Jews themselves-Ronald Schechter offers fresh perspectives on the Enlightenment and French Revolution, on Jewish history, and on the nature of racism and intolerance. Informed by the latest historical scholarship and by the insights of cultural theory, Obstinate Hebrews is a fascinating tale of cultural appropriation cast in the light of modern society's preoccupation with the "other." Schechter argues that the French paid attention to the Jews because thinking about the Jews helped them reflect on general issues of the day. These included the role of tradition in religion, the perfectibility of human nature, national identity, and the nature of citizenship. In a conclusion comparing and contrasting the "Jewish question" in France with discourses about women, blacks, and Native Americans, Schechter provocatively widens his inquiry, calling for a more historically precise approach to these important questions of difference.