Banks in Africa are weathering the COVID-19 pandemic well and showing a lot of creativity to overcome the crisis’s problems. But the war in Ukraine is causing new concerns. With interest rates rising in many countries and bond funding becoming more expensive, a significant number of banks are worried about rising financing costs. These issues and more are covered in the new Finance in Africa …
This book represents volume one of the writings of David Sissons, who for most of his career pioneered research on the history of relations between Australia and Japan. Much of what he wrote remained unpublished at the time of his death in 2006, and so the editors have included a selection of his hitherto unpublished work along with some of his published writings. Breaking Japanese Diplomatic C…
Relationality and Learning in Oceania: Contextualizing Education for Development critically engages debates in comparative education and international development relating to context, culture, language and indigenous epistemologies. It draws on experiences of a south-north research-practice team in Solomon Islands and Tonga.; Readership: All interested in comparative education and international…
The 14th thematic volume of International Development Policy provides perspectives through case studies from the global Souths focusing on the challenges and opportunities of governing migration on the subnational, national, regional and international levels. Bringing together some thirty authors from Africa, Latin America and Asia, the book explores existing and new policies and frameworks in …
Teknologi baru seperti media sosial, komputasi awan, data besar, dan teknologi yang ada di mana-mana dan ambien beroperasi dalam skala global, penggunaannya tidak hanya menyentuh negara tempat asalnya (dalam banyak kasus, Amerika Serikat), tetapi juga individu dan kelompok di seluruh dunia. Pengungkapan baru-baru ini mengenai praktik pengawasan lebih lanjut membuktikan bahwa data pribadi dikomu…
In his Quaestiones naturales, Plutarch unmistakably demonstrates a huge interest in the world of natural phenomena. The work of this famous intellectual and philosopher from Chaeronea consists of forty-one natural problems that address a wide variety of questions, sometimes rather peculiar ones, pertaining to ancient Greek physics, including problems related to the fields of zoology, botany, me…
St Olav’s Church in Tønsberg in Viken (the area surrounding the Oslo Fjord in south-eastern Norway) burned along with most of the medieval town in 1536, the same year the Reformation was introduced to Norway. The church was never rebuilt, and its ruins were forgotten for centuries. When they were finally uncovered in the late nineteenth century, scholars realized that this was by far the lar…
An academic approach to the popular use of video production technology
Mengeksplorasi peran tato dalam budaya penjara dan manifestasinya yang unik di antara minoritas imigran, Memberikan kerangka teoritis untuk memahami asimilasi imigran versus segregasi, Meneliti kontrol sosial dalam populasi penjara. -> Israel adalah negara imigrasi yang berbeda dan sifatnya saat ini telah dibentuk dan dipengaruhi oleh segudang gelombang imigran yang melanda pantainya (Amir dan …
"Western culture has ‘faith’ in the labour market as a test of the worth of each individual. For those who are out of work, welfare is now less of a support than a means of purification and redemption. Continuously reformed by the left and right in politics, the contemporary welfare state attempts to transform the unemployed into active jobseekers, punishing non-compliance. Drawing on ideas…