Aid and relief programmes

Both law and weather affect us every day of our modern lives, yet most people do not know how the weather has affected developments in the law, nor are they aware of how the law has attempted to develop ways to affect the weather.

Tracing the boom of local NGOs since the 1990s in the context of the global political economy of aid, current trends of neoliberal state restructuring, and shifting post-Cold War hegemonies, this book explores the associational revolution in post-socialist, post-conflict Serbia.

Welche Finanzierungsformen sind heute für diakonische Unternehmen angesichts der immer schwierigeren wirtschaftlichen Rahmenbedingungen geeignet?

Autonomie, Kreativität und individuelle Selbstentfaltung werden in der neoliberalen Marktwirtschaft klare Grenzen gesetzt.

Sir Nick Young's memoir is a fascinating and candid account of his thirteen years as chief executive of the British Red Cross (2001-2014).

'A profound memoir' Daily Telegraph'As revealing as the writing of Oliver Sacks' Mark CousinsOutside the Asylum is Lynne Jones's personal and highly acclaimed exploration of humanitarian psychiatry and the changing world of international relief.

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More than 50 developing countries depend on three or fewer commodities for more than half of their exports and, in fact, many rely on a single commodity for a large share of export earnings.

In 2013 almost half of Africa's top aid recipients were ruled by authoritarian regimes.

This book is a penetrating comparative analysis of the economic development efforts of West African countries.

Economic aid is one of the cornerstones of the Egyptian-American relationship, and plays a significant role in promoting US policy objectives in the Middle East.

Anthropological interest in new subjects of research and contemporary knowledge practices has turned ethnographic attention to a wide ranging variety of professional fields.

Since the end of the Cold War, the protection of human life has been a key priority of the international community.

With the vast majority of healthcare and social workers identifying as women, the vanguard of the COVID-19 response was distinctly gendered.

The terrible 1984 famine in Ethiopia focused the world's attention on the country and the issue of aid as never before.

Enlightened Aid is a unique history of foreign aid.

With the vast majority of healthcare and social workers identifying as women, the vanguard of the COVID-19 response was distinctly gendered.

Disaster management is an increasingly important subject, as effective management of both natural and manmade disasters is essential to save lives and minimize casualties.

Social workers are increasingly engaged in supporting individuals and communities in long-term disaster recovery.

Islamic Charity Under Suspicion': such headlines have become familiar since the attacks on the United States on 9.

The Aid Triangle focuses on the human dynamics of international aid and illustrates how the aid system incorporates power relationships, and therefore relationships of dominance.

It is widely recognised that the foreign aid system - which today involves every country in the world - is in need of drastic change.

There are many books about aid and development, but most of them either assume a good deal of prior knowledge about the subject, or are written to make the case for or against aid.

For many years Tanzania was the darling of international aid agencies.

In 2010, Haiti was ravaged by a brutal earthquake that affected the lives of millions.

The first book to chronicle the cleanup of the World Trade Center site from 9/11 through its closing ceremony, told by Lieutenant William Keegan of the Port Authority Police Departmentone of the four operations commanders at the siteas he comes to his own closure with the tragedy.

The 2014-2015 Ebola epidemic in West Africa was an unprecedented medical and political emergency that cast an unflattering light on multiple corners of government and international response.

Throughout the 1990s, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) was forced to face the challenges posed by the genocide of Rwandan Tutsis and a succession of outbreaks of political violence in Rwanda and its neighbouring countries.

Foreign aid is about charity.

From the brink of dissolution in 1945 to the triumph of the Geneva Conventions in 1949, via the Nuremberg Trials, runaway Nazis, and furious battles with communist critics on the eve of the Cold War, this is the intriguing and remarkable story of the International Red Cross - and how it survived its ambiguous relationship with the Nazis during the Second World War.

Foreign aid is now a $100bn business and is expanding more rapidly today than it has for a generation.

As millions continue to face a future of food poverty, lessons can be learned by considering how farmer cooperatives succeeded in improving India's food security.

Die Digitalisierung verändert auch die gesundheitsbezogene Gegenseitigkeitshilfe über alle Ebenen hinweg (Verbände der Selbsthilfe, regionale Kontaktstellen, Selbsthilfegruppen) im Sinne des § 20h SGB V.

'An indispensible inquiry into our moral health and humanity.

This book arises from a joint NAS-Russian Academy of Sciences program to explore possible new approaches to the control of sensitive dual-use technologies, with respect to expanded trade between Western advanced industrialized countries and the republics of the former Soviet Union as well as to the export trade of the Russian and other CIS republics with countries of proliferation concern.

El mundo está lleno de desarrolladores Android, aunque no todos son capaces de plantear soluciones profesionales aproblemas reales.

Throughout the 1990s, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) was forced to face the challenges posed by the genocide of Rwandan Tutsis and a succession of outbreaks of political violence in Rwanda and its neighbouring countries.

Disaster management is an increasingly important subject, as effective management of both natural and manmade disasters is essential to save lives and minimize casualties.

Since the end of the Cold War, the protection of human life has been a key priority of the international community.

The Money Doctor in the Andes is an account of the technical assistance missions to five Andean republics-Colombia, Ecuador, Chile, Bolivia, and Peru-undertaken by Princeton University economist Edwin Walter Kemmerer during the 1920s.

From natural disaster areas to conflict zones, humanitarian workers today find themselves operating in diverse and difficult environments.

In the mid-1990s, as many as one million North Koreans died in one of the worst famines of the twentieth century.

This book explores the significance of religious resurgence and violence in Nigeria, and how informal local government power-sharing reduces communal Muslim-Christian violence.