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Accounting for growth in Latin America and the Caribbean - improving corporate financial reporting to support regional economic development
Henri Fortin, Ana Cristina Hirata Barros, Kit Cutler
Washington, D.C.: World Bank (c2010) XXIX, 164 s. Directions in development
Accounting, Economic development, Latin America, Caribbean

Achieving boro rice production targets in FY 2009-10 - challenges and actions required
Uttam Deb ... [et al.]
Dhaka: Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) (2010) 59 s. GPD occasional paper series
Rice, Agricultural production, Bangladesh

Afghanistan - graveyard of empires : a new history of the borderlands
David Isby
New York: Pegasus Books (2010) XXII, 440 s.
History, Afghanistan

Bangladesh and regional connectivity - best practices from global experiences
Hasanuzzaman, Zeeshaan Rahman
Dhaka: Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) (2010) 55 s. GPD occasional paper series
Transport, Bangladesh

Central Asia atlas of natural resources

Manila: Central Asian Countries Initiative for Land Management, Asian Development Bank (2010) 1 atlas (212 s.)
Natural resources, Environment, Atlases, Asia, Central Asia

Comparative secularisms in a global age
edited by Linell E. Cady and Elizabeth Shakman Hurd
New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2010) VIII, 293 s.
Religion, Secularism, Islam, France, United States, Turkey, India

Competitiveness and growth in Brazilian cities - local policies and actions for innovation
Ming Zhang, editor
Washington, D.C.: World Bank (c2010) XV, 200 s. Directions in development
Urban areas, Economic growth, Competitiveness, Brazil

Complicated coordination in a complex emergency
by Bjørn Ivar Kruke
Stavanger: University of Stavanger, Faculty of Social Sciences, Risk Management and Societal Safety (2010) XV, 330 s. PhD thesis UiS
Humanitarian assistance, Emergency relief, Aid coordination, Theses, Sudan

Development as a human right - legal, political and economic dimensions
editors Bård A. Andreassen, Stephen P. Marks
Antwerpen: Intersentia (2010) XLII, 405 s.
Human rights

Eco2 cities - ecological cities as economic cities
Hiroaki Suzuki ... [et al.]
Washington, D.C.: World Bank (c2010) XXVIII, 358 s.
Urbanization, Towns, Ecological balance, Sustainable development

Global change - impacts on water and food security : with 31 figures and 34 tables
Claudia Ringler, Asit K. Biwas, Sarah A. Cline (eds.)
Berlin: Springer Verlag (2010) XV, 265 s. Water resources development and management
Water resources, Food security, Globalization, Water supply

Hidrocarburos, pol¡tica y sociedad
[Fernanda Wanderley, redacci¢n]
La Paz: CIDES-UMSA (2010) 349 p. Umbrales
Politics, Bolivia

Localising power in post-authoritarian Indonesia - a Southeast Asia perspective
Vedi R. Hadiz
Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press (c2010) XII, 247 s. Contemporary issues in Asia and the Pacific
Local government, Decentralization, Political power, Indonesia

Localizing transitional justice - interventions and priorities after mass violence
edited by Rosalind Shaw and Lars Waldorf ; with Pierre Hazan
Stanford. Calif.: Stanford University press (c2010) XVI, 344 s. Stanford Studies in Human Rights
Justice, Transitional justice, Human rights, South Africa, Peru, Guatemala, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda, Burma, Israel, Lebanon

Mediations of violence in Africa - fashioning new futures from contested pasts
edited by Lidwien Kapteijns, Annemiek Richters
Leiden: Brill (2010) XVIII, 265 s. Africa-Europe group for interdiciplinary studies
African literature, Traditional culture, Collective memory, Violence, Social aspects, Africa, Somalia, South Africa, Kenya, Mozambique, Rwanda

Palestinian and Israeli public opinion - the public imperative in the second Intifada
Jacob Shamir and Khalil Shikaki
Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press (c2010) XI, 205 s. Indiana series in Middle East studies
Elections, Public opinion, Middle East, Israel, Palestine

Regionalismus im südlichen Afrika - die Handels- und Sicherheitspolitik der SADC
Jacqueline Jaspert
Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften (2010) 411 s.
Trade policy, National security, Regional integration, SADC, Southern Africa

Safer homes, stonger communities - a handbook for reconstructing after natural disasters
Abhas K. Jha ; with Jennifer Duyne Barenstein ... [et al.]
Washington, D.C.: World Bank (c2010) XXXI, 370 s.
Housing construction

Scaling up nutrition - what will it cost?
Sue Horton ... [et al.]
Washington, D.C.: World Bank (c2010) XXX, 100 s. Directions in development
Nutrition

State of the Bangladesh economy in FY 2009-10 - from stability to accelerated growth

Dhaka: Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) (2010) 93 s. GPD occasional paper series
Economic conditions, Bangladesh

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Development as a human right - legal, political and economic dimensions editors Bård A. Andreassen, Stephen P. Marks
Human rights

Eco2 cities - ecological cities as economic cities Hiroaki Suzuki ... [et al.]
Urbanization, Towns, Ecological balance, Sustainable development

Mediations of violence in Africa - fashioning new futures from contested pasts edited by Lidwien Kapteijns, Annemiek Richters
African literature, Traditional culture, Collective memory, Violence, Social aspects, Africa, Somalia, South Africa, Kenya, Mozambique, Rwanda


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