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Another edition, practically identical, was issued the same year, with the author's name erroneously spelled Mackeinzie on title page. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Over the 40 past years, growth of renewable energies benefited of the new world energy frame, which resulted of the questioning about what development of human societies had to be. Furthermore, although human development comes with electricity, the rural condition of many populations of sub-Saharan Africa incites us to look for suitable power supply alternatives. Eventually, in this specific context, renewable energies can represent a reliable solution to the off-grid electrification of rural peoples. However, this solution has to be economical and technical, and not only political.The Republic of Djibouti is a little developing country located in the Horn of Africa which perfectly symbolizes the social and energy challenges of rural populations in Sub-Saharan Africa. Instability and limitation of the existing electrical grid, fuel cost and lack of fossil resources point to the geographically diffused solar resource as probably the best way to improve human development and reduce poverty of Djiboutian rural peoples. Therefore, we have considered the study of photovoltaic (PV) systems within the rural off-grid electrification frame.Firstly, in order to evaluate relevance of these systems, it was necessary to estimate level and repartition of the solar resource across the country. So we developed a solar atlas, i.e. cartography of the hourly solar irradiation reaching the ground, based on satellite-derived irradiance estimates retrieved between 2008 and 2011. For assessing the atlas quality, we compared irradiation estimates with ground measures retrieved on 4 different sites by 2 temporary weather stations deployed between 2010 and 2013. Finally, yearly map extracted from the atlas showed that, with a daily mean irradiation of 5,87kWh/m².day, the solar potential of Djibouti is one of the most significant in the world.Satellite models are useful for determining solar irradiance at ground level but they don't take into account local topography effects. In order to incorporate these shading effects to the ...

Despite the fact that the globalization process tends to reinforce existing inequality structures and generate new areas of inequality on multiple levels, systematic analyses on this very important field remain scarce. Hence, this book approaches the complex question of inequality not only from different regional perspectives, covering Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin and Northern America, but also from different disciplinary perspectives, namely cultural anthropology, economics, ethnology, geography, international relations, sociology, and political sciences. The contributions are subdivided into three essential fields of research: Part I analyzes the socio-economic dimension of global exclusion, highlighting in particular the impacts of internationalization and globalization processes on national social structures against the background of theoretical concepts of social inequality. Part II addresses the political dimension of global inequalities. Since the decline of the Soviet Union new regional powers like Brazil, China, India and South Africa have emerged, creating power shifts in international relations that are the primary focus of the second part. Lastly, Part III examines the structural and transnational dimension of inequality patterns, which can be concretized in the rise of globalized national elites and the emergence of multinational networks that transcend the geographical and imaginative borders of nation states.

The Kingdom of Swaziland is one of the few countries in the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC), Africa and the world where traditional institutions play a very important part in the overall governance of the country. The Kingdom, which in 1998 celebrated thirty years of political independence, has what has been described as a "modified traditional monarch". The significance of traditional institutions in general and the monarch in particular, manifests itself not only in the general administration of the country but in the administration of criminal justice as well. This contribution describes the crises and confusion that arose in the administration of criminal justice in Swaziland in the 1990s in general and, in particular, the part played by the Director of Public prosecutions – DPP, who was assumed to have been connected to, and in league with, traditional bodies and officials. An analysis is made of how adherence to traditional norms and the influence of traditional institutions contributed to and became part of the crises. A conclusion is drawn that the DPP, who is an officer of the court, is in law expected to exercise his professional powers independently. When that ceases to be the case, this office can become a cause of injustice not only to individuals but to society as a whole.

Quel que soit le pays ou le continent considéré, une interdépendance étroite existe aujourd'hui entre démocratie, liberté des médias et régulation de la communication. Une place cruciale revient en effet aux organes de régulation dans la procédure d'allocation de fréquences d'émissions, dans la promotion de la diversité culturelle des contenus médiatiques, dans l'équitable accès aux ondes des courants politiques et de pensée, ou encore dans l'émergence de véritables médias de service public. Les organes de régulation des médias se sont partout ou presque imposés comme partie intégrante de l'

The food and agriculture sector is pivotal not only to addressing undernutrition but also to containing and preventing the spread of diet-related noncommunicable disease. This context requires action throughout the food system, from sustainably managing natural resources and input supplies to enabling consumption of healthy diets and promoting gender equity. Political commitment is growing, but much remains to be done in terms of strengthening the information base to support strategic decision making, and developing capacities for implementation at scale. In April 2016, the UN General Assembly enacted a Decade of Action for Nutrition, and nutrition is directly or indirectly related to all of the Sustainable Development Goals. This enabling environment at the global level should foster further progress in the region, and conversely, African countries can inspire other regions of the world by pursuing innovative approaches for unleashing the latent potential of the agrifood sector to drive positive change in nutrition. ; PR ; IFPRI1; ReSAKSS ; DSGD; WCAO; ESAO; PHND; A4NH ; CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH)

In a letter of 4 July to the Swiss Federal Council, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam stated that, with the same reservations as the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam and the Republic of South Viet Nam, his country would continue to participate in the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 for the protection of war victims.

This chapter discusses the evolution of post-colonial South Asian economies using the triad of dominant classes, state and imperialism. Two key insights help us make sense of this evolution. First, the dominant classes such as landed interests, private capital and government bureaucrats in South Asia were able to prevent a radical/progressive restructuring of the economies from the very outset. Any deep crisis that threatened to radically transform the existing social order was solved through an 'imperialist fix', whereby the dominant classes in conjunction with the state sought external help (e.g. 'Green Revolution' in the wake of food crises of 1960s). On the other hand, imperialist countries, when they needed the cooperation of South Asia in their strategic endeavors or when they underwent capitalist crises, used the region (along with the larger developing world that possesses labor reserves, minerals, and serves as a final market), as a 'spatial fix' to solve their crises. It is the coming together of these two processes/fixes that defines the mutual engagement of imperialism and South Asian economies during this period that contained two imperialist orders, one that lasted from 1950 until 1980, and a second one that came into being after 1980.

The purpose of this research was to determine the impact of disclosure on enterprise risk management (ERM), corporate social responsibility (CSR), and sustainability reports (SR) on firm value. Data for this research is taken from financial reports, annualreports, and reports issued by firms. In this study, the sample used was banking firms listed on Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand Stock Exchanges from 2019-2020. Sampling using purposive sampling technique with four criteria. Firms that meet these criteria are 36 Indonesian firms, 10 Malaysian firms, and 8 Thai firms. The method of data analysis is multiple regression analysis using the Eviews software. The results show that Enterprise Risk Management positively influences firm value. Meanwhile, the Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability Report has no effecton banking firm's value. The results of this study can be used as a reference for potential investors to know the condition of each company they want to invest in.