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Author : Kathleen R. Kuehnast
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780821358986
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (589 download)
Download or read book Better a hundred friends than a hundred rubles? written by Kathleen R. Kuehnast and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kathleen R. Kuehnast
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Better a Hundred Friends Than a Hundred Rubles? written by Kathleen R. Kuehnast and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication examines the impact of economic transition and poverty on social networks in the Central Asian country of the Kyrgyz Republic. It considers the effect of poverty on the form and function of informal social networks of the poor and non-poor households, and highlights the polarisation of social networks that parallels the sharp socio-economic stratification that has occurred since national independence in 1991.
Author : Julia Stakhnevich
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1440528748
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (45 download)
Download or read book The Everything Learning Russian Book Enhanced Edition written by Julia Stakhnevich and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learning Russian is an exciting challenge-even saying "hello" "goodbye" seems daunting! Whether you're planning a trip to Russia or adding a valuable second language to your resume, this book is just what you need. Julia Stakhnevich, a native Russian speaker, will help you to: Recognize and read Cyrillic letters Pronounce Russian words like a native Ask for directions, order dinner, and conduct business Hold your own in a conversation Also, this eBook is enhanced with audio icons throughout which allow you to hear correct pronunciation or participate in various exercises so you can perfect your Russian pronunciation and understanding with ease! Inside, you'll also find step-by-step lessons in vocabulary, grammar, and conversation. With The Everything Learning Russian Book (Enhanced Edition), you'll see how much fun learning Russian can be!
Author : Michael Alexeev
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199339988
Total Pages : 1024 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Russian Economy written by Michael Alexeev and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By 1999, Russia's economy was growing at almost 7% per year, and by 2008 reached 11th place in the world GDP rankings. Russia is now the world's second largest producer and exporter of oil, the largest producer and exporter of natural gas, and as a result has the third largest stock of foreign exchange reserves in the world, behind only China and Japan. But while this impressive economic growth has raised the average standard of living and put a number of wealthy Russians on the Forbes billionaires list, it has failed to solve the country's deep economic and social problems inherited from the Soviet times. Russia continues to suffer from a distorted economic structure, with its low labor productivity, heavy reliance on natural resource extraction, low life expectancy, high income inequality, and weak institutions. While a voluminous amount of literature has studied various individual aspects of the Russian economy, in the West there has been no comprehensive and systematic analysis of the socialist legacies, the current state, and future prospects of the Russian economy gathered in one book. The Oxford Handbook of the Russian Economy fills this gap by offering a broad range of topics written by the best Western and Russian scholars of the Russian economy. While the book's focus is the current state of the Russian economy, the first part of the book also addresses the legacy of the Soviet command economy and offers an analysis of institutional aspects of Russia's economic development over the last decade. The second part covers the most important sectors of the economy. The third part examines the economic challenges created by the gigantic magnitude of regional, geographic, ethnic, religious and linguistic diversity of Russia. The fourth part covers various social issues, including health, education, and demographic challenges. It will also examine broad policy challenges, including the tax system, rule of law, as well as corruption and the underground economy. Michael Alexeev and Shlomo Weber provide for the first time in one volume a complete, well-rounded, and essential look at the complex, emerging Russian economy.
Author : A. Broome
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230278051
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)
Download or read book The Currency of Power written by A. Broome and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-03-10 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how the International Monetary Fund engages in the politics of ideas to shape domestic institutional change. Drawing on case studies from post-Soviet Central Asia, André Broome explains that how governments interpret their policy options mediates the IMF's influence over economic reform during periods of crisis and uncertainty.
Author : Dina Fainberg
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498529941
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)
Download or read book Reconsidering Stagnation in the Brezhnev Era written by Dina Fainberg and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-04-27 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contributes to a growing reevaluation of the Brezhnev era, helping to shape a new historiography that gives us a much richer and more nuanced picture of the time period than the stagnation paradigm usually assigned to the era. The essays provide a multifaceted prism that reveals a dynamic society with a political and intellectual class that remained committed to the ideological foundations of the state, recognized the challenges that the system faced, and embarked on a creative search for solutions. The chapters focus on developments in politics, society, and culture, as well as the state’s attempts to lead and initiate change, which are mostly glossed over in the stagnation narrative. The volume challenges the assumption that the period as a whole was characterized by rampant cynicism and a decline of faith in the socialist creed and instead points to the persistence of popular engagement with the socialist ideology and the power it continued to wield within the Soviet Union.
Author : Frank Beardow
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857714422
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)
Download or read book Little Vera written by Frank Beardow and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2003-06-27 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Directed by Vasisli Pichul and released in 1988 "Little Vera" received the European Film Award for best screenplay as well as the special jury prize at Montreal. Looking at the wider context of the film, this text observes its use of space and representations of complex family relationships, placing "Little Vera" within the context of youth cinema and overturning its reputation in the West as the "first ever Soviet sex film".
Author : Shantayanan Devarajan
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780821350744
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (57 download)
Download or read book World Bank Economists' Forum written by Shantayanan Devarajan and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2002 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gönül Pultar
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815633424
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (156 download)
Download or read book Imagined Identities written by Gönül Pultar and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-14 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How are identities being forged during the age of globalization? This collection of essays, by scholars from various disciplines and regions of the world, discusses both the construction and deconstruction of identity in its engagement with culture, ethnicity, and nationhood. The authors explore the tension resulting from the desire to create a new cultural space for identities that are at once national, regional, linguistic, and religious. Among the wide-ranging approaches, Tanja Stampfl looks at the elusiveness of cultural identity in Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner; Dawn Morais investigates issues of ethnicity and nationality in Malaysia’s tourism advertising; and Cathy Waegner explores ethnic identities as globalized market commodities. Throughout the volume, identity is approached from a variety of sites—fiction, news analysis, film, theme parks, and field work—to contribute new insight and perspective to the well-worn debate over what identity signifies in societies where the existence of minorities, both indigenous and immigrant, challenges the dominant group.
Author : Michael Hetzer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684854082
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (848 download)
Download or read book The Forbidden Zone written by Michael Hetzer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1999-02-11 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An American woman scientist makes a desperate attempt to save a Soviet astrophysicist from his own personal hell with a revelation that threatens his career, his politics, and his life.
Author : Thomas, Brychan Celfyn
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 152257722X
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (225 download)
Download or read book Innovation and Social Capital in Organizational Ecosystems written by Thomas, Brychan Celfyn and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social capital as a concept, is a comparatively recent addition to the regional economic and innovation literature. Facets of social capital are generally acknowledged to include trust, collaboration, cooperation, bridging and bonding social network ties, and reciprocity. Nevertheless, forms of social capital such as bonding and bridging social capital, are less frequently explored in the literature. Innovation and Social Capital in Organizational Ecosystems breaks down the concept of innovation into its main components, which represent a spectrum of innovation activity from technology-based innovation to hidden and social innovation, in order to support executives concerned with innovation and social capital in different work communities and environments. Highlighting a range of topics including regional development, social innovation, network capital, and more, this book is ideally designed for researchers, professionals, students, policymakers, and practitioners.
Author : Francesca Mezzenzana
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000816435
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Conversations on Empathy written by Francesca Mezzenzana and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-01-16 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the aftermath of a global pandemic, amidst new and ongoing wars, genocide, inequality, and staggering ecological collapse, some in the public and political arena have argued that we are in desperate need of greater empathy — be this with our neighbours, refugees, war victims, the vulnerable or disappearing animal and plant species. This interdisciplinary volume asks the crucial questions: How does a better understanding of empathy contribute, if at all, to our understanding of others? How is it implicated in the ways we perceive, understand and constitute others as subjects? Conversations on Empathy examines how empathy might be enacted and experienced either as a way to highlight forms of otherness or, instead, to overcome what might otherwise appear to be irreducible differences. It explores the ways in which empathy enables us to understand, imagine and create sameness and otherness in our everyday intersubjective encounters focusing on a varied range of "radical others" – others who are perceived as being dramatically different from oneself. With a focus on the importance of empathy to understand difference, the book contends that the role of empathy is critical, now more than ever, for thinking about local and global challenges of interconnectedness, care and justice.
Author : Catherine Wanner
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271042619
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Burden of Dreams written by Catherine Wanner and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on schools, festivals, commemorative ceremonies, and monuments, Catherine Wanner shows how Soviet-created narratives have been recast to reflect a post-Soviet Ukrainocentric perspective. In the process, we see how new histories are understood and acted upon. This reveals regional cleavages and the resilience of cultural differences produced by the Soviet regime. For some people, the system they criticized yesterday is the one they long for today.
Author : Maria Elisabeth Louw
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134125208
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)
Download or read book Everyday Islam in Post-Soviet Central Asia written by Maria Elisabeth Louw and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-05-09 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a wealth of empirical research on the everyday practise of Islam in post-Soviet Central Asia, this book gives a detailed account of how Islam is understood and practised among ordinary Muslims in the region, focusing in particular on Uzbekistan. It shows how individuals negotiate understandings of Islam as an important marker for identity, grounding for morality and as a tool for everyday problem-solving in the economically harsh, socially insecure and politically tense atmosphere of present-day Uzbekistan. Presenting a detailed case-study of the city of Bukhara that focuses upon the local forms of Sufism and saint veneration, the book shows how Islam facilitates the pursuit of more modest goals of agency and belonging, as opposed to the utopian illusions of fundamentalist Muslim doctrines.
Author : Huseyn Aliyev
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472130471
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)
Download or read book When Informal Institutions Change written by Huseyn Aliyev and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2017-08-09 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals the impact of institutional change on informal practices in three transitional post-Soviet regimes: Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine
Author : Melanie Ilic
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000033902
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Soviet Women – Everyday Lives written by Melanie Ilic and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on an extensive reading of a broad range of women’s accounts of their lives in the Soviet Union, this book focuses on many hidden aspects of Soviet women’s everyday lives, thereby revealing a great deal about how the Soviet Union operated on a day-to-day basis and about the place of the individual within it. Including testimony from both celebrated literary and cultural figures and from many ordinary people, and from both enthusiastic supporters of the regime and dissidents, the book considers women’s daily routines, attitudes and behaviours. It highlights some of the hidden inequalities of an ostensibly egalitarian society, and considers many wider questions, including how extensive was the ‘reach’ of the Soviet regime; how ‘modern’ was it; how far were there continuities after 1917 between the new Bolshevik regime and Russia’s imperial past; and how homogenous and how mobile was Soviet society?
Author : Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 029932060X
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (993 download)
Download or read book Everyday Economic Survival in Myanmar written by Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung and published by University of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reforms in Myanmar (formerly Burma) have eased restrictions on citizens' political activities. Yet for most Burmese, Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung shows, eking out a living from day to day leaves little time for civic engagement. Citizens have coped with extreme hardship through great resourcefulness. But by making bad situations more tolerable in the short term, these coping strategies may hinder the emergence of the democratic values needed to sustain the country's transition to a more open political environment. Thawnghmung conducted in-depth interviews and surveys of 372 individuals from all walks of life and across geographical locations in Myanmar between 2008 and 2015. To frame her analysis, she provides context from countries with comparable political and economic situations. Her findings will be welcomed by political scientists and policy analysts, as well by journalists and humanitarian activists looking for substantive, reliable information about everyday life in a country that remains largely in the shadows.
