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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Quest for Calmer Capital -- Part One: A Different Debt Landscape -- 1. Rising Debts With a New Composition -- 2. Accessing Global Debt Markets -- 3. China's Lending to Africa -- Part Two: The Trouble With Debt -- 4. African Debt Crises of the 1980s and 1990s -- 5. How Much Debt is Too Much? -- 6. Risks of Financial Market Debt -- 7. Debt Scars From the Pandemic -- Part Three: Solutions for Better Borrowing -- 8. Ways of Avoiding Debt Crises -- 9. Means of Solving Debt Crises -- 10. More Debt Benefits, Less Burden -- Appendix: African Debt Categories -- Notes -- Index.

Borrowing is a crucial source of financing for governments all over the world. If they get it wrong, then debt crises can bring progress to a halt. But if it's done right, investment happens and conditions improve. African countries are seeking calmer capital, to raise living standards and give their economies a competitive edge. The African debt landscape has changed radically in the first two decades of the twenty-first century. Since the clean slate of extensive debt relief, states have sought new borrowing opportunities from international capital markets and emerging global powers like China. The new debt composition has increased risk, exacerbated by the 2020 coronavirus pandemic: richer countries borrowed at rock-bottom interest rates, while Africa faced an expensive jump in indebtedness.

Democratic Education in Practice by Matthew Knoester provides a powerful antidote to the despair progressive teachers too easily can feel in the face of the corporate-sponsored onslaught against 21st-century public schools. The book provides a fine-grained view of the Mission Hill School in Boston, started in 1997 by two of the nation's most committed and creative progressive educators.

The growth of environmental education programs nationwide has been criticized – and in some places, blunted by restrictive state laws – by researchers who accuse such programs of bias against industry and for catastrophic interpretations of environmental threats. While some of the criticism can help the field improve, the leading critics weaken their case by focusing exclusively on texts without regard to what happens in the classroom. Moreover, the critics are frequently funded by sources that appear to have an ideological or commercial motiviation to minimize evidence of industrial damage to the environment.

Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Reflections on the Tradition of Republicanism -- 2. Initial Reflections on Political Philosophy -- 3. Who Was Cicero? -- 4. Cicero on the Nature of Philosophy -- 5. Cicero on Cosmology and Natural Philosophy -- 6. Cicero on Natural Theology -- 7. Cicero on Ethics -- 8. Cicero on Oratory and the Language Arts -- 9. Cicero on Politics -- 10. A Brief Reflection on Nietzsche -- Conclusion: Political Philosophy and the Republican Future -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

This book looks specifically at issues for health and safety management that arise in contracting relationships, bringing together a range of perspectives from different disciplines including legal, health and safety management, operational, contract and procurement management. By sharing lessons from both success and failure to identify critical issues in contractor safety management the book raises awareness of the complexity and importance of contractor safety management and to offer some guidance on how those critical issues might be addressed.