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This book dives into the achievements, opportunities, risks and dangers of ICT in the rural Global South, and takes a look at the likely future. This engaging account of ICT and rural development will help students, academics, governmental policymakers, donors and investors wishing to support socio-economic development in the Global South

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of tables -- List of boxes -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 The development drivers, facilitators and obstacles of the last 50 years -- 2 Agricultural production practice -- 3 The commons -- 4 Trade -- 5 Microfinance -- 6 Information and communication technology -- 7 Migration -- 8 Social assistance -- 9 Climate change -- Conclusions -- Index.

With the end of the Cold War greater responsibilities have fallen on parliaments worldwide, including in European countries. In the new democracies of Eastern Europe, parliaments needed to seize the opportunity to install effective systems of control of the security sector, including the defence sector which is the subject of this article. But reform of parliamentary oversight is also needed in Western Europe because of the new & more complex security environment. A list of parliamentary best practice is presented, based on the principles of accountability, oversight & transparency, for policy formulation, legislation, expenditures management & procurement decisions. Measured against this yardstick, parliamentary oversight still falls short in many NATO member countries. Adapted from the source document.

'Strength In Numbers: Europe's Foreign and Defence Policy' by Charles Grant is reviewed.

This volume is an updated and expanded version of the authors original book, first published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers and based on his cum laude doctoral dissertation. That volume discussed how the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence drowned in the first war between a communist and a non-aligned state. This new edition reproduces the original text, but supplements it considerably in light of subsequent developments and official records and reports only later released or leaked to the public. It places Sino-Indian relations in the wider, current context of the rise of China, the position of Tibet and the disorganised state of Asia. The border dispute did not prevent substantial economic relations developing between the two countries and visits taking place at the highest political level. But it still gives rise to almost daily incursions, and in the current climate, the risk of a clash is growing, as forces have been strengthened and most of the Line of Actual Control has not been demarcated. This thought-provoking volume sheds light on what is still a complex and uneasy relationship