Following the eight year rule of Idi Amin, then several years of war and civil war, the Ugandan economy was in ruins by the time peace was restored in 1986. Since then Uganda has consistently been ...one of the fastest growing economies in Africa, leading to a substantial reduction in poverty. Its economic success has attracted considerable attention and has arguably had more influence on development thinking and on the international aid architecture than any other country. The HIPC debt relief initiative, the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, and the growth of budget support have all been strongly influenced by Ugandan experience and thinking. Ugandan innovations such as poverty reduction strategies, public expenditure tracking surveys, and virtual poverty funds have been widely adopted elsewhere. Most of the reforms which transformed the economy originated within the Uganda government during the 1990s, rather than being imposed through donor conditionality. In this book, for the first time many of the architects of those reforms give their personal accounts of the thinking behind the reforms, how they were implemented, and their impact. Since measures that work well in one environment may fail when transplanted to a different environment, the authors identify factors that were critical to the success of Uganda's reforms. While a number of individual reforms have been the subject of academic study, this book represents the first consolidated account of the economic reforms undertaken by the Uganda government and their impact on growth and poverty reduction. Available in OSO: http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/oso/public/content/economicsfinance/9780199556229/toc.html Contributors to this volume - Charles Byaruhanga, Ugandan Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development Mark Henstridge, Group Economics at BP, London Louis Kasekende, African Development Bank Mary Goretti Sendyona, Ugandan Ministry of Public Service Gerry Cawley, Independent economic consultant based in Nairobi, Kenya Justin Zake, Fiscal Affairs Department's Revenue Administration Division of the International Monetary Fund Kenneth Mugambe, Ugandan Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development Martin Brownbridge, Consultant on macroeconomics and fiscal policy Giulio Federico, CRA International and IESE Business School in Barcelona Ishmael Magona, Ugandan Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development Margaret Kakande, Ugandan Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development E.S.K. Muwanga-Zake, Uganda Bureau of Statistics Damoni Kitabire, African Development Bank Gustavio Bwoch, Accountant General of Uganda Robert Muwanga, United Nations Development Programme in Sudan Emmanuel Nyirinkindi, International Finance Corporation, Johannesburg Michael Opagi, International Finance Corporation, Johannesburg
Roadmap of optical communications Agrell, Erik; Karlsson, Magnus; Chraplyvy, A R ...
Journal of optics (2010),
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Lightwave communications is a necessity for the information age. Optical links provide enormous bandwidth, and the optical fiber is the only medium that can meet the modern society's needs for ...transporting massive amounts of data over long distances. Applications range from global high-capacity networks, which constitute the backbone of the internet, to the massively parallel interconnects that provide data connectivity inside datacenters and supercomputers. Optical communications is a diverse and rapidly changing field, where experts in photonics, communications, electronics, and signal processing work side by side to meet the ever-increasing demands for higher capacity, lower cost, and lower energy consumption, while adapting the system design to novel services and technologies. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of this rich research field, Journal of Optics has invited 16 researchers, each a world-leading expert in their respective subfields, to contribute a section to this invited review article, summarizing their views on state-of-the-art and future developments in optical communications.
En este número proponemos, como documento, un programa hipotético como base para la elaboración de una asignatura ideal que agrupara la historia de España y Cataluña entre 1979 y 2019. Desde ...Redacción hemos tomado como referencia los libros de Pilar Toboso Sánchez, Historia de España actual. Desde la Segunda República hasta nuestros días (Síntesis, 2019); y el de Juan Jesús González Rodríguez (ed.), Cambio social en la España del siglo XXI (Alianza Editorial, 2020). Ambos son obras de referencia que agrupan contenido y resultan ideales para una primera aproximación a un programa tan vasto. El programa centrado en la Historia de le Economía en la España actual es una iniciativa del profesor Guillermo García Crespo (UC3, UdG). La política exterior española se ha integrado en los diversos puntos del programa sin darle un especial realce. Para un enfoque ya elaborado de todo el periodo se recomienda la obra de Michael Reid, Spain. The trials and Triumphs of a Modern European Country, (Yale University Press, 2023) que se reseña en este mismo número de Tiempo devorado.
Case studies help identify the emerging trends and influences that dominate the political decision making and policy behavior of many states in the Middle East. The chapters investigate foreign ...policy challenges and debates in various states, changing relations and balance of power between them, and the continuing role of the US in the region.
Timely and pathbreaking, Securing the Peace is the first book to explore the complete spectrum of civil war terminations, including negotiated settlements, military victories by governments and ...rebels, and stalemates and ceasefires. Examining the outcomes of all civil war terminations since 1940, Monica Toft develops a general theory of postwar stability, showing how third-party guarantees may not be the best option. She demonstrates that thorough security-sector reform plays a critical role in establishing peace over the long term. Much of the thinking in this area has centered on third parties presiding over the maintenance of negotiated settlements, but the problem with this focus is that fewer than a quarter of recent civil wars have ended this way. Furthermore, these settlements have been precarious, often resulting in a recurrence of war. Toft finds that military victory, especially victory by rebels, lends itself to a more durable peace. She argues for the importance of the security sector--the police and military--and explains that victories are more stable when governments can maintain order. Toft presents statistical evaluations and in-depth case studies that include El Salvador, Sudan, and Uganda to reveal that where the security sector remains robust, stability and democracy are likely to follow.
Québec Epstein, Clarence; Gagnon, François-Marc; Kuspit, Donald ...
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Le tableau d'Adam Miller intitulée Québec évoque plus de quatre siècles d'histoire de la province. Représentant des personnages politiques québécois et canadiens identifiables, des gens ordinaires et ...des figures allégoriques, cette œuvre hors du commun aborde de nombreux débats entourant le 150e anniversaire de la Confédération ainsi que le 375e anniversaire de la fondation de Montréal. Rassemblant une collection de commentaires sur cette toile et son artiste, cet ouvrage explore l'expérience québécoise et canadienne ainsi que les liens qui unissent l'art et l'histoire. On y trouve une reproduction du tableau, un assortiment de gros plans, l'identification des personnages représentés et des esquisses ayant servi de préparation à l'œuvre définitive. En outre, des essais rédigés par les historiens de l'art François-Marc Gagnon, Donald Kuspit et Alexandre Turgeon incitent à la réflexion sur le tableau et son style, de même que sur sa représentation de l'histoire relativement aux questions de la politique, de l'art et de la mémoire collective. L'ouvrage renferme aussi une entrevue avec Adam Miller réalisée par Clarence Epstein qui révèle les sources d'inspiration de l'œuvre et le processus créatif de son auteur. Une préface rédigée par le mécène qui a commandé la toile vient compléter le tout. Adam Miller est un peintre réputé pour son style figuratif néo-classique raffiné dépeignant des sujets historiques et des thèmes liés à la justice sociale. Il vit à New York.Le tableau d'Adam Miller intitulée Québec évoque plus de quatre siècles d'histoire de la province. Représentant des personnages politiques québécois et canadiens identifiables, des gens ordinaires et des figures allégoriques, cette œuvre hors du commun aborde de nombreux débats entourant le 150e anniversaire de la Confédération ainsi que le 375e anniversaire de la fondation de Montréal. Rassemblant une collection de commentaires sur cette toile et son artiste, cet ouvrage explore l'expérience québécoise et canadienne ainsi que les liens qui unissent l'art et l'histoire. On y trouve une reproduction du tableau, un assortiment de gros plans, l'identification des personnages représentés et des esquisses ayant servi de préparation à l'œuvre définitive. En outre, des essais rédigés par les historiens de l'art François-Marc Gagnon, Donald Kuspit et Alexandre Turgeon incitent à la réflexion sur le tableau et son style, de même que sur sa représentation de l'histoire relativement aux questions de la politique, de l'art et de la mémoire collective. L'ouvrage renferme aussi une entrevue avec Adam Miller réalisée par Clarence Epstein qui révèle les sources d'inspiration de l'œuvre et le processus créatif de son auteur. Une préface rédigée par le mécène qui a commandé la toile vient compléter le tout. Adam Miller est un peintre réputé pour son style figuratif néo-classique raffiné dépeignant des sujets historiques et des thèmes liés à la justice sociale. Il vit à New York.
What did the Russian revolution of 1917 and the Iranian revolution of 1978-1979 share besides their drama? How can we compare a revolution led by Lenin with one inspired by Khomeini? How is a ...revolution based primarily on the urban working class similar to one founded to a significant degree on traditional groups like the bazaaris, small craftsmen, and religious students and preachers? Identifying a distinctive route to modernity--autocratic modernization--Tim McDaniel explores the dilemmas inherent in the efforts of autocratic monarchies in Russia and Iran to transform their countries into modern industrial societies.
Originally published in 1993.
ThePrinceton Legacy Libraryuses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
The stark reality is that throughout the world, women disproportionately live in poverty. This indicates that gender can both cause and perpetuate poverty, but this is a complex and cross-cutting ...relationship.The full enjoyment of human rights is routinely denied to women who live in poverty. How can human rights respond and alleviate gender-based poverty? This monograph closely examines the potential of equality and non-discrimination at international law to redress gender-based poverty. It offers a sophisticated assessment of how the international human rights treaties, specifically the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), which contains no obligations on poverty, can be interpreted and used to address gender-based poverty. An interpretation of CEDAW that incorporates the harms of gender-based poverty can spark a global dialogue. The book makes an important contribution to that dialogue, arguing that the CEDAW should serve as an authoritative international standard setting exercise that can activate international accountability mechanisms and inform the domestic interpretation of human rights.
In haunting prose that will follow you for days to come, Made Holy tells the story of the American family. Love, loss, and addiction entwine in this moving debut collection. Emily Arnason Casey ...employs the lyric imagination to probe memory and the ever-shifting lens of time as she seeks to make sense of the disease that haunts her maternal family tree and the alchemy of loss and longing.The lakes of her childhood in Minnesota form the interior landscape of this book, a kind of watery nostalgia for something just beyond her reach. "I know this feeling," she writes. "We travel along the surface of time and then suddenly the layers give way and we are in another year, another body, another place."Caseys willingness to honestly examine the past and present with contemplative lyricism offers fresh perspective and new understanding. In electric moments that are utterly relatable, she weaves a tale of love and commitment to the truth of her experience despite the incredible desire to keep alive a legacy of secrets. Like the mullein plant she invokes in the final essay, these essays form a kind of "guardian to the lost."
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