Afryka, Azja, Ameryka Lacinska (Africa, Asia, Latin America )
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The work consists a comprehensive analysis of the structure and change in the realm of the Indian education based on research study in India (Delhi, Benares, Bangalore). The autor is mainly interested in the transition of modern India and its implications in the dimension of contemporary didactics. He also emphasises the dynamic development of Indian universities combined with IT revolution. He maintains...
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The Kimberley Process is the initiative of governments of Namibia, South Africa and Botswana to stop the trade in conflict diamonds. The first meeting was held in May 2000. After two years of negotiations, representatives of governments, the international diamond industry and NGOs (Global Witness and Partnership Africa Canada) created the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS). Its aim is to...
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The article contains synthesis of transformation of socio-economic behaviour among rural population in Las Huastecas region in the last years of XX century and the first years of XXI century, based on the field studies conducted in rural communities in 1985, 2001 and 2006 by geographers from Warsaw University and Autonomous University of the State of Mexico. The first part concern the factors of changes...
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Nuevo San Juan Parangaricutiro is an Indian community situated in the Purhépecha Indians region in the State of Michoacán in Mexico. In the 1980s a forest company was established there. Its structure was based on a traditional community organization on one hand and on the model of modern enterprise on the other. The company is now supported by the Mexican Government and by international organizations...
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This paper attempts to examine the significant effects of creation of the free trade area between the United States of America and Chile. The presentation of real figures and data is synthesized with theoretical background pertaining to a general evolution in approach of the US decision makers to the Latin America region since the beginning of 20th century. What is most important, an impact of the...
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After the end of the Cold War, the geopolitical situation of Sub-Saharan Africa changed and many donors of development aid started to actively promote democratization on the continent. This paper examines the aid conditionality as a tool of democracy promotion. The author argues that negative conditionality (withdrawal of aid) may facilitate democratization only in cases of fragile African dictatorships...
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The aim of the paper is to analyze issues concerning the implementation of principles and mechanisms of Official Development Aid. by Poland. The main thesis of this paper is that Poland - as other new EU Member States - still faces enormous challenges in adopting the principles resulting from emerging consensus over aid effectiveness and that these challenges may have negative impact on the EU role...
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Our knowledge about the scope and scale of SMEs participation in global economic flows is rather small. Few studies of the issue show limited export potential of the sector and concentrate on numerous barriers faced by smaller firms on the world market. Does the low share of SMEs in exports mean that internationalisation of the sector is very limited? Disintegration of business activities that can...
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Drawing a distinction between circular and linear time is only one of many possible divisions. It can coexist and overlap with sacrum and profanum, ecological and structural as well as with objective and subjective time. Moreover, the very same event, such as for example the rite of initiation, by most community members considered as a manifest of circular time, by individuals can be seen as linear...
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The al-Qaeda terrorist attacks upon the United States on September 11, 2001, in the Western countries commonly acknowledged to be the turning-point in relations with the Islamic world, were merely a reflection of the growing from several decades Muslims' dislike for the West of which initially the most important reason was the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, unsolved from 1948. However, the actual situation...
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After winning the presidential election in December 1998, Hugo Chávez undertook a fundamental reorganization of the Venezuelan foreign policy and proclaimed the Bolivarian Revolution, referring directly to the Simón Bolívar's legacy and aiming to build 'the socialism of the 20th century' in Venezuela, based on the petroleum export profits. However, the revolutionary rhetoric used by the new president...
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Despite its split territory, Kurdistan is experiencing, especially its Iraqi part, a significant economic growth. It is possible thanks to the financial resources coming from the petroleum export and the international developmental support. The article presents the rapid reconstruction of the regional agriculture and infrastructure, that were devastated during the civil war
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The opposition 'North - South' in the contemporary sense appeared in the 60s of the 20th century. However it gained publicity during 70s because of the then international situation. Construction of the world based on North - South division competed with East - West division and at the same time it was a part of the latter. From the very beginning those terms have met with various critical comments...
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The article discusses whether and how the process of emigration may contribute to the development of local and national economy of the sending country, basing on the example of two Andean provinces - Azuay and Canar, Ecuador. In the first part the authoress presents some of the arguments on the issues such as the possible role of remittances sent by the emigrants, the danger of weakening of social...
