Childhood, Well-Being and a Therapeutic Ethos / / Richard House

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910785254503321
• Autore: House Richard
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : , : Taylor and Francis, , 2018
• ISBN: 0-429-91186-6; 0-429-89763-4; 0-429-47286-2; 1-282-77971-0; 9786612779718; 1-84940-845-9
• Edizione: [First edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (346 p.)
• Disciplina: 155.4
• Soggetti: Child psychology; Child development
• 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 and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Copy Right; THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS; FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CHAPTER ONE: Editorial introduction: 'Therapeutic ethos' in therapeutic, educational and cultural perspectives; PART I: CHILDHOOD IN CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVE; PART II: CHILDHOOD AND ITS DISCONTENTS: THE SPECIFIC CONCERNS; PART III: TOWARDS A THERAPEUTIC ETHOS FOR CHILDHOOD; PART IV: PLAY, PLAYFULNESS, AND CHILDREN'S WELL-BEING
• Sommario/riassunto: "A key theme of this book is that we urgently need a therapeutic ethos in order to bring both educational and therapeutic sensibilities to bear on the issue of children's wellbeing, if truly effective and appropriate policy responses to the current malaise are to be fashioned. Not least, we must pay particular attention to childhood experience, showing that scientific and technical developments are always secondary to the resources of the human soul, if we are to minimize the extent to which today's children will need therapy as adults. This will entail moving beyond narrowly mechanistic definitions of, and ways of thinking about, "well-being" and the psychological therapies. This book offers pointers to the kinds of arguments that can inform what is rapidly ; becoming a central concern of politicians and policy-makers. A unique book in the field, Childhood, Well-being and a Therapeutic Ethos will be core cross-disciplinary reading in a range of academic and training contexts, including within Education, Psychology and Sociology departments, on early childhood studies and policy studies modules and degrees, and on child and other psychotherapy and counselling trainings."--Provided by publisher.

Development and the debt trap : economic planning and external borrowing in Ghana / / Andrzej Krassowski

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910814235903321
• Autore: Krassowski Andrzej
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2015; ©1974
• ISBN: 1-136-88788-1; 0-203-83990-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (179 p.)
• Collana: Routledge library editions. Development ; ; volume 15
• Disciplina: 336.343509667
• Soggetti: Debts, External - Ghana; Ghana Economic policy; Ghana Economic conditions 1957-1979
• 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 and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title; Copyright; Original Title; Original Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. The Root of the Problem: Economic and Political Conditions and Objectives in the Decade before Independence; 1. Strengths and weaknesses of Ghana's economy in the run-up to the 1951 elections; 2. The Ten-Year Plan of 1951: the government's response to economic discontent; 3. The evolution of Nkrumah's economic programme for independence; 4. Aid and foreign private investment up to independence; 3. The Transition from Financial Self-reliance to External Dependence 1957-1961; 1. Preparations for Ghana''s first post-independence Plan2. The ; formulation of the Five-Year Plan (1959-1964); 3. The 1961 crisis and its effect on policy; 4. The forging of new links with suppliers of external resources; i) Official aid from the West; ii) The Volta River Project; iii) Private foreign investment; iv) East European loans; v) Supplier credits; 4. The Plunge into Insolvency (1962-1965); 1. Government control over the economy; 2. The formulation of the Seven-Year Plan (1964-70); 3. The relationship between public investment, state enterprise and external finance; 4. External credits: origins, types, terms and uses i) Official aid from the West; ii) Private foreign investment; iii) Supplier credits and East European loans; 5. The Nkrumah Legacy; 1. Ghana's public finances, balance of payments and economy at the time of the coup; 2. Major changes in Ghana's economy between 1950-53 and 1962-5; i) Employment and the supply of skills; ii) Trends in domestic income and expenditure; iii) Changes in the sectoral distribution of income; iv) The growth of the public sector; v) The balance of payments; 3. The hard-core problems left from the Nkrumah era; 6. Post-Nkrumah Efforts at Rehabilitation and Debt Settlement1. The programme of stabilisation under the NLC; 2. Economic reforms under the NLC and Busia administrations; 3. Efforts to reschedule the foreign debt; 4. Aid from the West; 7. Summary and Lessons; 1. Nkrumah's economic programme; 2. The debt; Statistical Appendix; 1. Note on Ghana's statistics; 2. Currency and exchange rates; 3. Sources for Appendix and other Tables; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Ghana is one of the earliest and most serious examples of the build up of foreign debt by a developing country to support its policies for economic growth. This study, first published in 1974 in conjunction with the Overseas Development Institute, analyses Ghana's economy over twenty years and highlights the problems of the debtor/creditor relationship between developed and developing countries.The study concludes with an assessment of the creditors' contribution to Ghana's critical debt position through their readiness to supply funds without adequately analysing the viability of the programme.